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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real question is why is Bancroft. [/quote]

yes. Both Oyster and Bancroft should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt.MacFarland would easily have PARCC scores on par with Stuart-Hobson: not amazing, but able to get more in-bounds buy-in, and the school would get big enough to offer more courses and extracurriculars. By having Oyster and Adams only serve PK3-5, there would be a lot more ECE slots.[/quote]

If the existing residents won't send their kids there, why do you think that the re-zoned ones would? It's about a one in five in boundary participation rate for both MacFarland and Roosevelt. Under 5% at both schools testing proficient in math. [/quote]

People move in groups. If a cohort of kids from Bancroft and Adams went to MacFarland, it wouldn't have such low math proficiency. It doesn't take many kids to move that needle. What would really help is if DCPS promised and provided honors classes at MacFarland based on PARCC scores. It could also help is if DCPS did everything possible to move all interested Adams staff over to MacFarland. Of course people would prefer to have feeder rights to higher-performing schools, but "Alice Deal for All" did not mean literally routing every school to Deal and JR. [/quote]

Agree on the real differentiation. If they did, more parents would opt in. Without that, I don't see it. It might not take many kids, but that doesn't mean you'll get any. It's not that there aren't already tons of kids who are zoned for those schools who do well -- there are, and they send their kids to Wilson, DCI, Deal, Latin, Banneker, SWW, BASIS, etc. And so would the new ones. Rezoning in combination with differentiation and other changes - that would be interesting. [/quote]

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