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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone going on and on about MS IB buy in actually looked at the IB percentages at these schools? Eliot-Hine and Jefferson have been steadily growing over time - both from around 40% IB four years ago to over 50% now. Meanwhile Stuart-Hobson has hovered around 25-30%. At the elementary schools, IB percentages over time largely mirror the middle schools they feed into. [/quote]

I think you need to look at the IB capture rate rather than the percent of students that are IB.

And also, SH attracts OOB students to its feeders and itself directly *because* it is a desirable school. [/quote]

Eliot-Hine's boundary participation rate grew from 21% in SY19-20 to 36% in SY24-25. Jefferson's grew from 32% to 36%. Meanwhile, Stuart-Hobson's decreased from 47% to 31%.[/quote]

Very interesting. And has the total enrollment changed significantly at any of these schools?[/quote]

Enrollment from SY19-20 to SY24-25

Eliot-Hine: 262 to 432
Jefferson: 353 to 409
Stuart-Hobson: 487 to 460

Grade Specific Students Living in Boundary from SY19-20 to SY24-25

Eliot-Hine: 427 to 606
Jefferson: 443 to 601
Stuart-Hobson: 332 to 414

Grade Specific Students Living In Boundary and Attending Boundary School from SY19-20 to SY24-25

Eliot-Hine: 89 to 219
Jefferson: 142 to 217
Stuart-Hobson: 157 to 128[/quote]

That's fascinating! I still do think SH is the strongest school of the three, but maybe I'm wrong?[/quote]

I agree that it's the strongest academically. I don't agree with the narrative that it's because of increasing IB participation.[/quote]

I don't think that's the reason, but I expected it to go in the same direction.

I wonder how the numbers look if you counted everyone coming from a feeder as IB. Are OOB kids coming in for 6th, or via feeders?[/quote]

As an EH parent that came from a feeder school, I can anecdotally say that from my experience the 'playground chatter' has changed in the past 10 years from 'transfer out mid-elementary to get into a SH feeder' to parents being happy to stay through 5th and then go to EH. That may account for the decrease in enrollment at SH - as well as the new Latin campus etc, and nothing negative about SH at all.  Also I have noticed at EH, and may be true at other middle schools - that there are a number of kids every year who transfer in from a charter school - so they probably always lived in boundary, and then when they transfer in it increases both enrollment and IB numbers.

As for rigor between various DCPS schools, IMO it is hard to totally compare any two schools b/c there are few parents who have experience at multiple schools.[/quote]

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