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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this thread is more of a post-mortem on Two Rivers, but given the small class size and middling test scores I'm fascinated by how well their students fared at the application high schools last year. 10 to Banneker, 15 to McKinley, 1-9 to Duke Ellington, and 1-9 to School Without Walls. Any insight into what drove that?[/quote]

The 10 to Banneker is a decent result but the McKinley number isn't meaningful -- McKinley regularly has fewer matches on results day than available spots which means if you apply for it and don't get into a school you ranked higher you will probably get into McKinley. That might be changing as the gap narrowed a lot in the 2024 lottery (147 matches for 250 seats -- the first time they've ever had over 200 matches). But for the 2023-2024 school year it was not competitive to get into the school.

It's good they sent at least one kid to Ellington and Walls but it's also uncommon for a middle school to send NO kids those schools. In this case the difference between one and nine kids is actually pretty big but there's no way to know.[/quote]

Well, the data does show 1,271 kids applied to McKinley Tech. Some matched elsewhere, and some perhaps didn't complete the process or didn't have even close to the grades, or moved away or whatever. But it's really not the case that anyone can just walk into McKinley Tech.[/quote]

Agreed you can't just walk in but it's also not clear how competitive it is to get in. This was the first year that they posted the number of applicants and also the first year that their matched students number came anywhere close to their available seats (247 out of 250). This is similar to what you consistently see at Banneker with a small number of unfilled seats likely due to some number of selected students ranking another school higher in the lottery and thus not matching (Walls consistently matches the full class on results day with a sizeable waitlist). But in prior years McKinley didn't come close to filling their class on match day with often 100+ unfilled seats. Presumably this is due to a combination of (1) not enough applicants who could meet the school's minimum requirements and (2) a number of selected applicants matched at another school they ranked higher. But since we don't know the number of applicants for any year prior to this one and we don't know if there were rejected students who did not receive matches at higher ranked schools we can't say.

Anecdotally I have heard from many families that McKinley is a fairly safe option for a STEM focused kid with good grades -- I don't know anyone who has wanted a seat there and not gotten it (unless they got in somewhere they wanted more).[/quote]

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