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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would say DCI is becoming the Deal middle school EOTP although it’s not part of DCPS.

It has a critical mass of grade level and above grade level kids.  It’s a big enough school but not too big, with the plus that it doesn’t have the overcrowding issue like Deal.  It has great facilities, and a large offering of sports, clubs, and extracurriculars like Deal.  It has an IB curriculum like Deal.

Your choices for middle schools EOTP are DCI, Latin, and Basis.  We toured Latin and Basis and the facilities are sadly lacking and so are the sports, clubs, and extracurriculars.  We are not even going to play the lottery for Latin or Basis although we have a high performing kid.  I’m sure many feeder families like us have made similar decisions.

Of the 3 middle schools above, DCI is most similar to your typical suburban middle school with good academics, facilities, sports, and extracurriculars.  We had that experience, and it’s what we want for our DS.

DCI has passed the point now where they have buy in from middle and UMC families.  And as the overwhelming majority of families track to DCI, the cohort of kids will become stronger and stronger, because the cohort coming up the feeder schools are stronger than what they were just 3 or 5 years ago.

Non-feeder kids won’t have any chance.  
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Hello Booster. Do you mean that the Spanish feeders will be allowed to consume the extra French seats? [/quote]

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