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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gentrification Watch! Schools with a low percentage of white students that saw a notable increase in the number of white students:

Amidon-Bowen 40->51

Barnard 44->60

Bunker Hill 14->27

Burroughs 50->79

Eliot-Hine 37->57

JO Wilson 39->49

LaSalle-Backus 5->13

Seaton 72->82

Shepherd 99->114

Stuart-Hobson 59->78

Tyler 99->117

Wheatley 7->16

Whittier 38->50 
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Curious about if there are any schools where that % persists through 4th or 5th grade. I’m too tired to dig in the data myself but my unscientific study (using my eyes) at one of the schools on that list where I have a (white) rising 3rd grader and we are bailing next year for a Hardy feeder says PK3/PK4 classes are half white, 4th and 5th grade classes have 1-2 non Black kids max. I don’t think the school is unique in that. [/quote]

Well yeah, that's how it works. But at schools where white families often go for ECE and then move to another school for upper grades, the percent of white students remains pretty flat. If a school is increasing the percent of white students year over year, especially if this happens consistently along a trend line, that means more white parents are keeping their kids at the school past ECE. At first it might just be 1st/2nd, but eventually might reach the 4th and 5th grades.

I live on the Hill and this is precisely what happened at Brent, Maury, and L-T. There was a time when all of those schools had very small white populations despite being in neighborhoods with a lot of white people. But over time, more white families chose to stick around past PK and it grew and grew until now all of those schools consistently have high percentages of white families going into at least 4th grade (the MS issue on the Hill combined with BASIS/Latins staring at 5th changes the demographics for 5th, but even that is shifting as BASIS/Latin have become extremely tough lotteries and a lot of people strike out, and stay for 5th even if they are planning on private or moving for MS).[/quote]

Totally agree. I've had kids many years apart at L-T. My oldest was one a handful of white kids in his K class. My youngest's 4th grade class was about 40/40/20. Now only the ECE (heavily white since nearly all IB students) and the 5th grade (heavily AA, though enough white students to report scores) have very different demographics. Though it happened in small steps each year, the overall demographic change over less than 10 years was incredible.[/quote]

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