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[quote=Anonymous]I think Shepherd is on a paritcularly interesting trajectory for a few reasons:

1) It is the highest performing majority AA school in DC with a fairly large OOB percentage
2) Shepherd Park is the only current Deal feeder boundary where you can buy a good size/quality SFH in walking distance to metro for well under $1M. (AU Park has quickly gotten out of control on prices)
3) As more families stay in DC and the lottery becomes less and less viable, more people are looking to skip the lottery by just buying IB for their DCPS.
4) As a result of 2&3, I think you'll see a rapid rise in IB students in Shepherd that stay all the way through.
5) A shift to all IB students will reduce the FARMS rate, which (like it or not) has a strong correlation to improving school performance (at a school that is already performing well).
6) With a subtle shift in neighborhood demographics and school IB percentage, Shepherd may very well wind up being the DCPS whose black/white ratio most directly mirrors that of the greater DC population.

All of those things are pretty intriguing to me. Since the school has a relatively small boundary (which will continue to include some very wealthy folks who will stick with private), it probably won't grow in size to become a Janney-like situation. I think it will evolve into an all in-bounds school within a few years and be the powerhouse model that other rising DCPSs in gentriying neighborhoods will strive to mirror.

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