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[quote=Anonymous][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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Yep. There could be a high performing neighborhood middle school on the hill tomorrow, but calling for that is “racist” so instead we have six elementary schools all within about a mile from each other feeding into three different middle schools in ways that make no sense and result in three weak middle schools. [/quote]

To us, the lack of a high-performing neighborhood middle school is the worst part about living on Capitol Hill.  My kids have been in a stable cohort since age 3 at our in-boundary school.  The school loses half the kids to BASIS and Wash Latin between 4th and 5th grades.  The remaining kids scatter to many different middle and high schools.  You know that the exodus is coming, but it hits swiftly and hard just the same.  The pols don't give a hoot, year after year.   Whatever happened to Alice Deal for all?[/quote]

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