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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People think Mccarthur is a good school bc its adjacent to several wealthy neighborhoods. It's a title 1 school - few or none of the parents who live in those neighborhoods would ever send their kids to the school as it is currently constituted. Im talking about the parents who own $2+ million sfh in those adjacent neighborhoods - not parents renting apartments around the corner or across the street from the school.  [/quote]

OP here… I don’t “think” anything about McA. Since my daughter is a rising 10th grader, schools like Banneker and Walls weren’t an option. This is what we got in the lottery, I could at this point consider switching to eastern… we were waitlisted for private and didn’t get low numbers for any of our charter preferences. [/quote]

To agree with another poster here, "DCUM is a strange place" - and that is very true. While helpful for some questions, it is a very narrow subset of parents. I think your best bet is to talk to other parents in your neighborhood, and then weigh what is best for your family. Many families/kids do make long commutes across town and it works for them, but there is definitely a cost to that.

My vote would be reach out to Eastern - ask about their EPIC program (https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/ourpages/auto/2020/7/28/55213143/EPIC%20Info%2024-25.pdf?rnd=1704732509155) - since you just moved, there is probably some flexibility with deadlines. You already are have a spot at McA so don't give that up yet, but go visit Eastern this month and see what you think. (and while you are at it, come back here and update the thread, b/c Eastern comes up as a point of discussion sometimes). If you go into the threads about Eastern (or Google it) - the overall test scores aren't great, but as has been discussed, that is an average that takes into account the whole school, including issues of chronic absenteeism, etc. The IB program and some of the other specialized programs have been reviewed positively by parents and there are a lot of opportunities for internships etc. (https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=456827&type=d) [/quote]

+1 to all of this. [/quote]

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