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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I’ve heard that Brent is overcrowded and needs a remodel too, they but have better teachers. [/quote]

Brent's "crowding" is basically the 1st and K bubble classes.  There aren't as many little kids coming up the chain as there were just several years ago.  Fewer in-boundary families are putting in for ECE each year now - the red hot Hill SE real estate market is simply pricing many young families out of the tiny Brent District.  There's not a lot of inventory for 3-bedroom houses in the catchment area, or even 2 bedrooms, even if you can afford 900K+.

Brent could certainly use a remodel, like most DCPS schools, but the situation is hardly desperate.  Nice big colored windows put in last summer have helped, along with an elevator.[/quote]

[b]The paragraph above about Brent’s lack of crowding is simply not true. [/b] The current PK3 cohort (rising PK4) is actually large - very few non siblings were admitted.  When they get to K it’s likely another “bubble” year.  If you have a bubble year every couple of years, or three “bubble” years out of four, at some point it’s a trend and not a bubble.  Year over year there is increased IB percentage and kids are staying for longer.  So there is definitely crowding and it is unlikely to improve in coming years without increased space. [/quote]

It is true- you're not up to date.  The current 1st grade class had 83 apply for PreS3 in-boundary.  This year, 55 in-boundary applicants, way down from four years ago.  The K bubble expected in the fall isn't nearly as big as that three or four years ago.  The real estate price crunch on 2-3 and 4-bedroom houses is real.[/quote]

I'm not sure what is to be gained in a fight about exactly how overcrowded Brent is, but the poster insisting that young families are priced out of Brent is misinformed. Yes, the current 1st is huge. Current K (inbounds kids) is actually a bit smaller. However, the current PK3 - about to be rising PK4 - has record numbers, even larger than the current (huge) 1st. There were less siblings, but overall a greater number of waitlisted inbounds kids for PK3 last year than even for 2015-2016. With more and more buildings being flipped to multifamily condos, the numbers are not trending smaller despite a boom or bust year here and there.[/quote]

NP who's heard that this year's PreS3 IB applicant group is acdtually smaller than last year's.  There really aren't multi-family buildings being built in the Brent area like elsewhere on the Hill. It's impossible have a good idea who will turn up from any given PK3 or PK4 applicant group. Many ece parents will move, go charter or go private.[/quote]

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