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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like OP is interested in Bancroft, so I'll just give you a quick caution:

Mt. Pleasant is now insanely expensive.  900,000 rowhouses, etc., pretty ordinary houses over $1M.  I don't know Texas, but I am always under the impression that $900,000 gets you a heckuva lot more there than it does in 1920s city housing stock in Mt. Pleasant. Also I worry that prices may be unnecessarily high, which could hurt you if you buy now and want to sell in the future.

Bancroft has had a little "diversity" (in DCPS terms this is unfortunately code for less than 100% poor and 100% nonwhite) for a few years, but this has not changed the school much.  The neighborhood may seem high status, but the school doesn't seem that way.

Bancroft is not the greatest success in terms of test scores, you decide whether that matters to you.

And its bilingual program seems kind of in flux.  They have a new principal, and the word is positive.  Though it's hard to say what the long-term impact of the change is at this point.  I'll just say from my experience during a tour, classes I thought would be somewhat bilingual seemed exclusively English-oriented.

Bancroft has extreme demand from out-of-boundary, so enteing the lottery from out-of-bounds is not a great prospect, though to be fair it gets easier as you move up in grades, when the few higher socioeconomic status children seem to be moving out of the school unfortunately.

That said, it sems to have an active PTA and community support that is better than that of other schools in the area.[/quote]

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