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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your kid like to be outside? The TR buildings are right off Florida Ave in a pretty grim setup from a play perspective.[/quote]

Our low-performing DCPS inbound has a wonderful playground. Is that a reason to stay there if we have the opportunity for Two Rivers 4th?

I mean, we are dealing with urban educations folks. We've decided to compromise a lot school-wise just by choosing to live in the city (outside of upper NW).[/quote]

For elementary? Maybe, tbh. [/quote]

Agreed.  A lot of the elementary experience is hard to sum up in test scores, so "low performing" might mean your school has a higher proportion of at-risk kids or IEDs, for whom it is hard to design a standardized test that does not disadvantage them.  If you school gets kids outside (which is a big way to make indoor education work better, after they get their wiggles out, even in non-pandemic times), and the teaching is good (often DCPS elementaries have great teachers because they pay so well), then it might be a better option than a charter with some good teachers and a weak admin.  As our kids get older and we have an eye on all the charters around us (and local DCPSs) through friends, what we've noticed, generally, is that people leave the "HRC" charters (like TR) in the upper grades because the shine comes off.  They leave DCPS schools for the middle school feeder pattern, rather than the education.  So I guess you want to weigh all of that vs your IB middle school (vs the likelihood that your IB remains the same and of similar quality, vs the likelihood that you are living in the same place, etc etc etc).  There are a lot of variables, but I wouldn't discount the outdoor play space.[/quote]

Yes, I think most understand that "high/low-performing" says much more about school demographics than it does about the quality of the teaching quality per se.

Where do folks go after the "shine comes off" HRCS?  Do they move to the burds, upper NW, go private?  Or back to their DCPS in-bound until middle school?[/quote]

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