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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watkins and SWS only overlap a single grade, and it's year one for SWS in a temporary space to boot, so I don't know if that comparison is apples to apples.   Perhaps it translates to a preference for Peabody as it retains Watkins and Stuart Hobson feeders[/quote]

The MS feeder situation is the wild card - the Brent and Maury parents haven't stopped pressuring DCPS and Wells to change their feed from Eliot-Hine to Stuart Hobson and nobody knows where the reinvented SWS will feed.  If the middle-class Hill graduates of all the Hill elementary schools could feed into Stuart Hobson, a concept with broad-based communtiy support, the school would almost certainly improve dramatically, and quickly.

As things stand, with half the SH students failing to test proficient on the DC-CAS, droves of weak Ludlow-Taylor and J.O. Wilson students set to feed in for the first time, and no honors classes beyong 8th grade algebra, few IB Watkins parents are sold on their neighborhood MS.  Parents of IB Watkins 4th graders lottery into charter middle schools (BASIS, Washington Latin, 2 Rivers) like crazy, move to the burbs or head to privates.  Even if SWS also feeds into SH, many IB Peabody/Watkins parents will pick SWS if they can for more upper elementary grades challenge than Watkins offers, a more upper-middle-class friendly social environment and a smaller, saner school.  The % of white kids at Wakins has dipped several school years in a row.  With Brent racing ahead to offer more challenge for advanced learners (e.g. math pullout groups, none at Wakins), SWS will have its work cut out for it to keep up.

I see a long SWS waiting list emerging fast, loaded not only with the usual LT, Miner and Payne why-did-we-buy-a-house-on-the-east-Hill K refugees, but IB Peabody/Watkins folk.

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