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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about DCI?[/quote]

Brent parent here - DCI...

Hardly offers any spots for students who aren't in charter language immersion elementary schools and won't offer any at all within 2 or 3 years.
Is a heck of a commute from the Hill SE (around 45 minutes one way). Walter Reed isn't Metro accessible.
Doesn't offer much rigor - no tracking for ELA, social studies or science in a program with a high low SES population (more than half).  
Enrolls no native speakers for Chinese and few for French (not immersion).[/quote]

Yes it will be very difficult to get into DCI because of preference for immersion school students but not impossible yet. Put it down in your lottery list, you still have a chance but low.  In a few years, that will likely approach zero.

It is not that far of a commute.  We live just north of Capital Hill in H St NE.  Our child is in K at a language immersion so we have a ways to middle school but from the NOMA station to Takoma on the red line is 11 minutes.  5 minute bus ride from Takoma to the school, probably a 15 minute walk from metro to the school.  Kids who grow up in the city are very comfortable riding metro with friends in middle school.  BTW there is a good cohort of kids from the Capital Hill area at our school.

It has a much, much higher performing peer group than all the other DCPS middle schools in the city except for Deal and is higher (55%/48%) than even at SH (45%/22%).  In fact, it has a much lower at risk than SH if you do the comparison.

Spanish is the strongest immersion at all the elementary immersion schools and what our DS is in, for of course that is overwhelmingly by far the largest percentage of native speaking families in the city.  Your child doesn’t have to be fluent in the foreign language and can take the language as an elective.  For strong students who are fluent, there is the option of taking other core subjects in the language.

Lastly, it’s a continuous IB program from middle to high school.  IB programs tend to focus more on writing skills which is a weak point at many schools. There are a few diploma options offered but the IB diploma is the most difficult and rigorous.  
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