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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]demographic comparison from 2011 DC-CAS

# non econ disadvantaged / total tested 
Eliot Hine:  52/287
Jefferson:  61/277
Stuart Hobson:  260/430

Which school would I be willing to send my white 5th grader to next year?  Close Stuart Hobson, I'll go charter or private.  Race and class can't change soon enough at the other middle schools.[/quote]

The part about race is complex and I’ll leave it for a more adept person to tackle.

As a non-Cluster Ward 6 parent, the overwhelming number of econ disadvantaged that would make you pull out of DCPS is the same reason we don’t feel like we can stay in DCPS past 4th grade.  We need Kaya to cut the Gordian knot.

Take a look at this link to a paper published by the Century Foundation:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2006/06/21/41kahlenberg.h25.html?print=1&levelId=1000

From my perspective, here’s the key point in the paper:

“Research has long found that a given student will perform better in a middle-class school than in a high-poverty school. The highly regarded Coleman Report of the 1960s found that, after the influence of the family, the socioeconomic status of a school is the single most important determinant of a student’s academic success. The basic findings of the report—including that all children do better in middle-class schools—have been affirmed again and again in the research literature.”
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Is not KIPP majority low-SES.  If so, I think KIPP has just refuted this proposition.  [/quote]

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