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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maury is not welcoming to new kids. It is good academically, but for one year, your kid have a much better experience at L-T. Don’t overcount test scores that don’t even come from the grades your kid would be attending.[/quote]

Ridiculous [/quote]

Sorry, but I think this is true. It’s not that the kids or families at Maury are mean, they’re not at all. But Maury gets very few new kids after K and this isn’t a situation where the family will know some Maury families already from DC Way or Studio One or whatever. That means that most friendship groups — including parents — are already pretty established and there’s not a culture of welcoming new kids/families every year. Of course her kid could get lucky, but it could also be an uphill climb. Maury is a very good school and if she was staying long-term, sure it could be worth it. But for one first grade year, going to a school that has similar test scores for demographics (slightly worse overall, but almost entirely drive by demographic differences & still good, especially in ELA) but a culture of kids coming in every year is going to be a much easier nut to crack. Ask a Maury family what year the kids at their kids’ birthday party started at the school and I guarantee you the answer is overwhelmingly PK3-K; the same thing simply isn’t true at L-T where more lottery movement means that new kids are integrated into friendship groups every year.[/quote]

You have no idea what you are talking about. maury gets a lot of new kids in the older grades and a steady stream of turn over every year. And although I guess some parents have weird hang ups and insecurities, the vast majority of kids don’t and make friends readily. This is about the dumbest discourse on Hill schools I have read recently and that is saying a lot. My guess is that if you approach *first grade* as a “nut to crack,” you are the one with the problem, not the other parents. [/quote]

The fact that you think Maury gets a lot of new kids in older grades compared to almost any DCPS in the city shows how out of touch you are. Last year, Maury offered 0 seats from 1st upwards in the initial lottery. They filled approx 5 seats across those grades from the WL. The year before they also offered zero slots, but filled more from the WL. The other schools were talking about offer 5-15 seats per grade initially. Last year, Ludlow had 9 1st grade lottery seats, so at least than many new 1st graders.[/quote]

That’s definitely not true for 3-5th. [/quote]

Not sure what you’re saying isn’t true. It is 100% true and confirmable on the lottery results page that Maury hasn’t offered a seat in the initial lottery in 1st grade or up since at least 2019, so any new kids in a particular grade are very hit or miss (they have often offered some seats via the WL; it’s hard to know how many seats v offers). That’s very different than Ludlow (and most other Hill schools) that routinely offer 5-15 spots a year, so there are reliably new kids in every grade. That’s not an insult to Maury; it’s a sign of its popularity. But it’s also a reason it might be harder to be a new kid there.[/quote]

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