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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]So what are they doing at Deal that they are not doing at Stuart Hobson?[/b][/quote]

Simple. Five overwhelmingly UMC DCPS elementary schools feed into a single middle school in Upper NW.

Meanwhile, down here on Cap Hill, half a dozen predominantly UMC DCPS elementary schools feed into several different middle schools.  Although the concept of the creation of a pan Ward 6 middle school enjoyed broad local support during the 2014 DCPS boundary and feeder review, the idea went nowhere.

*Maury and SWS feed into Eliot-Hine
*Brent and Van Ness feed into Jefferson Academy
*Ludlow-Taylor and Watkins feed into Stuart Hobson

Under this arrangement, no predominantly UMC middle school emerges, so no critical mass of in-boundary students materializes at any one school. The result is that most neighborhood families in a strongly UMC neighborhood go with alternatives for middle school - privates, BASIS, Washington Latin and other charters, move away.  
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This. SH is the best and has the most potential to keep improving partially because its worst performing feeder, JOW, isn’t bad and is starting to gentrify (and LT skyrocketed test scores & gentrification wise over the last 5 years), and partly because of geography. SH has the distinct advantage of being right on the Hill, in a fully gentrified neighborhood where its wealthiest IB families actually live. EH and, to an even greater extent, Jefferson, will never be able to replicate that no matter how they perform academically.[/quote]

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