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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, there are several application high schools in the District that you can easily access from the Hill. Your bigger worry should be MS which is much harder to manage. For HS you have Walls (academic magnet), Banneker (academic magnet), McKinley Tech (STEM magnet), Bard Early College (academic magnet), Duke Ellington (arts magnet), Phelps (vo-tech magnet), and Columbia Heights Education Campus (language magnet). There are also some Catholic HS options easily accessible from the Hill that are under $20K/year -- Gonzaga, Seton, DeMatha, for example. And I'm not sure what the PP is saying about there not being any teens -- my 2 teens and many others are roving all over the place, pre-Covid. They are tending to be pretty responsible during Covid, though I still see pairs walking around.[/quote]. NP, your magnet HS list sounds great on paper, PP.  Unfortunately, the sad reality is that only Walls has a good cohort of high SES students. And [b]only Walls has a good cohort of white students [/b](the Hill is mostly white now).  Gonzaga is more than 20k now, around 25K and only for boys of course.[/quote]

Well, there it is. Does OP know that the whitest middle school (Stuart-Hobson) on the Hill is only 13% white? might as well worry about that too if whiteness is her metric. 
Other than maybe Watkins, are any of Stuart-Hobson's feeders even going to be white enough for her?

OP, you don't really love the city if all you love is the museums and your short commute but you're worried about your teenagers being in school with other teenagers whose parents also want to live in DC. You love museums, and your own convenience.[/quote]

Not sure why it matters, but L-T is whiter than Watkins is.[/quote]

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