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[quote=Anonymous]So if you don't get into the Charters for MS where do you go? I thought privates at MS were hard to get into at that point. Do families just move?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, the main thing that's holding Jefferson back is the lack of definite rigor.  They don't seem to offer many true honors/intensified classes. Few UMC feeder parents are sold on their vague "we differentiate marvelously!" pledge.  The lack of diversity doesn't help either.  Where are the Asian students?  There seem to be zero and only a tiny number of whites.

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Jefferson has an accelerated math track with admission based on test scores and other specified metrics.

The school is 1.1% Asian (as compared with DCPS overall, which is 2% Asian).

I fully believe that Jefferson’s primary impediment to attracting more [b]Capitol Hill kids is its location[/b]. Overall, however, it’s among the more popular middle schools in the city, with a waitlist that consistently exceeds the number of offers made.
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If this were true, wouldn't Stuart Hobson have been popular with IB families for years?  After all, the school is just a few blocks from Union Station and Stanton Park.  Yet SH has yet to take off as a neighborhood middle school.  These are tough schools.  Not dangerous, but full of low SES kids leading tough lives, which turns off most UMC Ward 6 parents (though they'd be hard pressed to admit it). There's still not much in the way of definite academic tracking in DCPS middle schools, really just for math, even in 8th grade.  Rigor remains insufficient and enrichment weak compared to privates, the better charters and the high-performing suburban schools in the area.  Most UMC families just aren't incentivized to enroll.  A few more do every year, but most still won't.[/quote][/quote]

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