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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bump. Wondering if MacArthur is still on track to be the next Walls.  [/quote]

MacArthur was never going to be the next Walls.  Apples and oranges.  Not an application school.  It may well be the next Jackson Reed, or even better in some ways.[/quote]

Huh. That’s an interesting change of tune. It was just a few months ago that this very platform declared MacArthur is already the new Walls:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1201606.page

Everybody got quiet when the conversation turned to the big brawl. [/quote]

Because no one could credibly confirm or deny that adults filmed fighting on a public bus in a different part of town had anything to do with the school, let alone its academic performance. If someone were to scare away informed commenters with inflammatory videos of random people fighting in Dupont Circle or Tenleytown or Shaw, this thread could meet the same fate. Please don't.  We need actual information about the school, not triggering and trolling.  What is the source of the 11% on grade level number?[/quote]

Here you go.  11% in math and 39% in ELA.   What is even more concerning is that most of these kids (who are a minority at the school) are just on grade level, your floor.  If you look at the breakdown even further, no one is above grade level in math and only 5.5% in ELA.

https://schoolreportcard.dc.gov/lea/1/school/1294/report#measure-100[/quote]

DP but it’s a new school and only 30% in bounds because Hardy kids could go to J-R. Let’s see once they start feeding in. Maybe they’ll all bail for private but it’s still really early.[/quote]

The entire IB population couldn't all bail for private even if they wanted to, which they won't. The test scores may give me pause if I had a 7th or 8th grader at Hardy, but now that MacArthur is the only destination school for Eaton, Key, Mann, Stoddert, and Hyde-Addison, those parents, IB and OOB, are going to have the same expectations they do of Hardy now. Not an exact replica, but comparable academic offerings and standards. Not even saying I would avoid the school currently, just that if your kid is 5 years from high school still, I would feel confident Mac will be past all of the start up and growing pains you're seeing reflected in the test scores now. [/quote]

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