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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people actually stay for middle school in decent numbers at the set of dcps schools listed earlier.  other dcps elementary schools like garrison, seaton, langley are also preferred by some over charters; thats a change.[/quote]

Yes. People used to avoid Langley at all.costs and choose SSMA over it. Those days are gone and while Langley is still quite low performing, it has a lot more buy-in than it did 10 years ago.[/quote]

+1, similar story at Garrison and Seaton, I know UMC families in that neighborhood who are really happy at both schools. I don't know how many IB kids from these schools will wind up buying into the new Euclid middle but it's not going to zero. As in other parts of the city, a lot of families are running into the problem of being shut out of charters for MS/HS, but not wanting to move. Some of these families can make private work but I actually think you'll see this being out of reach for more and more families in DC because the cost of living is so high already and tuition at even the lower cost privates are also going up. It was more of an option for people who bought prior to 2018 or so, because they were able to buy on the dip and then experienced income growth over the next decade. But the families entering elementary schools now were more likely to have bought 2018-present, paying much higher prices and in more recent years dealing with much higher interest rates. Both of these factors make private less appealing, as does the increasingly unsteady state of federal work -- it's harder to commit to a private school tuition when you don't have at least one income that feels like a guarantee no matter what.[/quote]

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