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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maury is not welcoming to new kids. It is good academically, but for one year, your kid have a much better experience at L-T. Don’t overcount test scores that don’t even come from the grades your kid would be attending.[/quote]

Ridiculous [/quote]

Sorry, but I think this is true. It’s not that the kids or families at Maury are mean, they’re not at all. But Maury gets very few new kids after K and this isn’t a situation where the family will know some Maury families already from DC Way or Studio One or whatever. That means that most friendship groups — including parents — are already pretty established and there’s not a culture of welcoming new kids/families every year. Of course her kid could get lucky, but it could also be an uphill climb. Maury is a very good school and if she was staying long-term, sure it could be worth it. But for one first grade year, going to a school that has similar test scores for demographics (slightly worse overall, but almost entirely drive by demographic differences & still good, especially in ELA) but a culture of kids coming in every year is going to be a much easier nut to crack. Ask a Maury family what year the kids at their kids’ birthday party started at the school and I guarantee you the answer is overwhelmingly PK3-K; the same thing simply isn’t true at L-T where more lottery movement means that new kids are integrated into friendship groups every year.[/quote]

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