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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think McArthur will be a viable option.  Their numbers are dismal and there is hardly any buy in from IB families.

Plus the commute is horrendous.  Why deal with 45 minutes to 1 hour commute in rush hour traffic each way for a subpar school.

Are families that desperate to stay in the city? [/quote]

No, we've just seen how schools change and we might have more experience than you do.[/quote]

I suggest you talk to the Capitol Hill crowd then.  SH is still not an acceptable option and overwhelming majority are not sending their kids there.

The stakes are much higher for middle school than elementary.  You are so naive.  [/quote]

Actually LT is increasingly sending kids to SH. Watkins always has, but is now less gentrified than it used to be. SH is more gentrified than JOW is. None of the other CH schools feed to SH, so while there are some Brent families with proximity preference, it’s not like other CH families can just decide to go there.[/quote]

A handful of families going does not make it a majority IB school.  Just look at percentages IB and no it is not a majority by any long shot, not even close.[/quote]

Agree that SH is obviously not majority IB. However, the stats are a little misleading because of its feeders, only LT is majority IB. Kids who don't go to the feeder ESes are likely to opt out of the middle school as well, but not only or even mostly for quality of MS-related reasons. (It is obviously a contributing factor in the sense that some parents lottery into other schools precisely for the feeder; equally, however, many lottery decisions for ES have nothing at all to do with MS, so it's very hard to actually disentangle the factors at play. Also, there is also a time lag effect as schools improve because families opt out of the feeder pattern 5-8 years in advance.) One good question is what percentage of its feeder kids stay for MS and is that number trending up. Additionally, most families on the Hill consider it a "win" in terms of school quality if, e.g., Brent-zoned families choose SH (which many of them have proximity preference for), but those families show up as OOB. Given the complexities of the Hill MS situation, I think the real things that local families want to know are captured by 3 stats (and how those stats are trending): IB %; feeder enrollment %; and Hill family %.[/quote]

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