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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never in a million years pay $200K to avoid LT for a PK4er and 1st grader. I don’t think the poster who wants to justify the choice they made 5 years ago was wrong... but it’s 5 years later. I would much rather live in most of the L-T zone than the Maury zone and I like that L-T is not all rich and white...Brent is; feel free to check the stats. I think the area north of Stanton Park within 10 minutes of Union Station and right near H St and WF, but also only 10-15 minutes to Eastern Market is one of the nicest areas on the Hill. One of the one block streets b/t 6th and 7th NE there is probably my ideal Hill address.[/quote]

Not sure I get the problem with OP "paying 200K to avoid LT."  If s/he buys a house anywhere on the Hill and stays 3-4 years, the place is then sold, or rented, almost certainly for a nice profit.

Real estate in the LT District just isn't significantly cheaper than the Brent or Maury Districts these days, not on a square footage basis.

Brent just isn't all "rich and white." Our children have attended Brent for a long time and we're not white, or rich, nor are most of their school buddies.  [/quote]

Her OP literally asked if it was worth $200K to get into the Brent or Maury districts over LT or Watkins. So your opinion seems fairly irrelevant.

[b]Brent has vanishingly few poor kids and is overwhelmingly white when compared to any of the other schools discussed, Maury included.[/b][/quote]

Um, most of Cap Hill has "vanishingly few" poor families these days.  Almost the entire Hill has become overwhelmingly white as compared to less pricey DC residential neighborhoods.  The reality is that Maury's ECE, K and 1st grade classes are almost as white/high SES as Brent's this year.  If DC didn't want by-right neighborhood schools serving neighbors, ed leaders and voters should really have ditched them a generation ago, like San Fran and Boston did in the 70s and 80s.

But if you're looking for diversity through a glass-half-full lens, you can find it in greater international representation and growing UMC minority communities in our by-right public schools EotP.  When we started at Brent 6 or 7 years ago, the student body was down as 1% Asian and 1% English Language Learners.  This fall, Brent will be  6-7% Asian and at least 5% ELL.  Globe trotting families, not all of them American, are great to have in the school community.[/quote]

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