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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a parent with children in Maury's upper grades. There are a couple of things that both questions and answers aren't getting entirely right. My comments in no particular order...

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Thanks for this informative post.  Whenever I get to an open house for a home for sale in the Maury District, young families, mostly white or Asian, are mobbing the event.   The district may be very small, but demand is obviously growing as the school improves, no matter what the real estate market is doing.

It looks like diversity will steadily dimish over time, not necesarily a bad thing for gentrifiers determined to stay through 5th (is it so horrible if a school population looks more and more like a neighborhood population?).

It's not terribly relevant to most high-SES families that Maury 5th graders often head to EH and SH when few well-educated parents, the majority of lower grades kids, will touch either.   It is relevant that an elementary school could take them to 5th, long enough for many to have saved for private middle school, particularly relatively affordable St. Peter's, or St. Anselm's for boys.

You're going to see more and more Maury families trying to lottery into charters, because more and more parents are going to think like their Brent counterparts when their kids hit 4th grade.  Hint, these are not multi-generational families.

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