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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if you don't get into the Charters for MS where do you go? I thought privates at MS were hard to get into at that point. Do families just move?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, the main thing that's holding Jefferson back is the lack of definite rigor.  They don't seem to offer many true honors/intensified classes. Few UMC feeder parents are sold on their vague "we differentiate marvelously!" pledge.  The lack of diversity doesn't help either.  Where are the Asian students?  There seem to be zero and only a tiny number of whites.

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Jefferson has an accelerated math track with admission based on test scores and other specified metrics.

The school is 1.1% Asian (as compared with DCPS overall, which is 2% Asian).

I fully believe that Jefferson’s primary impediment to attracting more [b]Capitol Hill kids is its location[/b]. Overall, however, it’s among the more popular middle schools in the city, with a waitlist that consistently exceeds the number of offers made.
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If this were true, wouldn't Stuart Hobson have been popular with IB families for years?  After all, the school is just a few blocks from Union Station and Stanton Park.  Yet SH has yet to take off as a neighborhood middle school.  These are tough schools.  Not dangerous, but full of low SES kids leading tough lives, which turns off most UMC Ward 6 parents (though they'd be hard pressed to admit it). There's still not much in the way of definite academic tracking in DCPS middle schools, really just for math, even in 8th grade.  Rigor remains insufficient and enrichment weak compared to privates, the better charters and the high-performing suburban schools in the area.  Most UMC families just aren't incentivized to enroll.  A few more do every year, but most still won't.[/quote][/quote]

Maury and Payne families enroll in Eliot-Hine. We are moving or going private for HS (since my kid probably won’t get into Walls and is not a good enough student for Banneker.)[/quote]

Sometimes people try to lottery into Deal and Hardy feeders, just for 5th grade. That's not as reliable a strategy as it used to be, and it involves a bad commute, but sometimes it works.

It's pretty easy to get into Inspired Teaching, so it's rare for someone to literally not get into any charters. A lot of dealing with this school system involves being flexible and not too picky.[/quote]

I personally have not heard of anyone lotterying in to a Deal/Hardy feeder for 5th. The only family I know that did that did it earlier, and ended up moving to MD well before MS. I personally would rather move than commute that far.

A very small handful chose ITS, TR or Soujourner for MS - but at this point they don’t really seem preferable to EH. (Esp TR for MS.)[/quote]

Truth if you want to stay through high school. ITS if you have younger children and you would like for them to attend ITS as well. Then they can all be in one place and on one calendar. Or ITS if you really really want that small school feeling.[/quote]

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