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[quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]Um, most of Cap Hill has "vanishingly few" poor families these days[/b].  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]

No, every Hill ES except Brent has some poor families. Brent is noticeably less diverse in multiple respects than any other local option. Some people don’t care, I get that. But in a thread where people are literally like “don’t go to LT and risk only raising $100K!”, pretending every school on the Hill is the same diversity-wise seems odd.[/quote]

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