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Not PP, but HB draws primarily from Yorktown. There are 145 transfers to HB from the Wakefiled zone. I have no idea how many of those students attended an option program, but clearly it's not all of them. Anecdotally, there have been no (successful) applicants to HB from the option ES my kid attends the last 2 years (they announce where students are going the following year). I have no idea if any applied and were accepted, but none enrolled.

Also, I think there is a difference at the HS level for a lot of people, because the main subject areas/classes are based on academic performance levels. This doesn't happen at ES, so it's not a surprise to me that parents would be fine with a high poverty HS (50%) with a significant cohort of UMC kids where their kids have access to rigorous courses and a wide variety of extracurricular activities, but not okay with those same kids attending a high poverty ES (80%) where the remaining 20% of kids are not UMC, but those who are living just barely above the poverty line and there is no PTA or enrichment outside of school for non-disadvantaged kids. Different experiences all together. The option schools have significant numbers of very poor kids, but also significant numbers of rather well-off kids, more like Wakefield than not. All this to say, I do not believe there is evidence that most parents who prefer option ES programs do not consider Wakefiled a viable option for HS. But I'm sure that not all do. They are just as likely to move, though, as transfer. [/quote]

Yorktown has the most transfers to HB but there not a huge gap between the schools -- 182 from Yorktown, 145 from Wakefield, the least from W-L 130.

More Wakefield kids transfer to W-L, but again there isn't a huge difference between Wakefield and Yorktown --246, 224.

I know a lot of UMC families in S. Arlington who seem quite happy with Wakefield. [/quote]

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