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[quote=Anonymous]OP here again - it's probably clear enough in my post, but the point of my last 3 paragraphs (and what I wrote in an earlier post) is that DCPS is the example of 80% poor 20% middle class/affluent, give or take.

So the best you can hope for at the HS and probably MS level is to concentrate the well-prepared students to try to create some positive peer pressure, and even then they will not be an overwhelming majority, and may still be a minority (Wilson in DC looks nothing like Whitman in Bethesda).

Whereas if you try to do some social engineering and somehow succeed in distributing the affluent families evenly throughout the city's schools (you'd never succeed for reasons already explained, but suppose you did) then they will not have critical mass anywhere and "the prison will be run by the inmates", a phrase which, in the context of DC, takes on a more literal meaning!

BTW some posters mentioned several other HSs which they see as promising within DCPS... honestly, I had not heard of anything decent non-charter outside of Wilson, but maybe I need to look into that some more. I'll admit to some ignorance of HSs east of the park. Same for MSs, non-charter. My understanding has generally been that Deal is borderline yes, Hardy borderline no but with potential, and everything else non-charter is a clear and resounding no. Again, I may be out of date/uninformed - I'm sceptical but I'd be very happy to be wrong about that. 
  
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