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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I go to the OSSE website, I can see the breakdown of FARMS versus non FARMS for Brent ES.

Last year, 3rd grade had 46% FARM.
4th grade 60% FARM.
5th grade was 80% FARM.

The overall school is 28% FARM.

It's a fine school for under 3rd grade. Good teachers and some interesting stuff happening for children.

By third grade, your child will take 6 practice tests for the DCCAS. (That's over 24 instructional hours devoted to practicing for the DCCAS.) That coupled with no substantial language offerings, no music program and a "museum magnet program" that seems to comprised of going on field trips to museums (different from any other school how??) makes other schools look more appealing.

Families leave for suburban schools just as they always have. The rallying cry at Brent is that if there were a good feeder, families will stay.

Brent needs to focus on compelling programming within their walls and pull away from their reliance on nonstop test prep in the 3rd-5th grades, if they are going to keep local families.

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No music program???  While it certainly could be more robust and integrated, we have an excellent music teacher who is exposing students to various instruments (my 1st grader is learning guitar during music class).  The museum magnet program moniker lives on from an earlier era and suffers from the inability of some  teachers to step up and be more creative.  However, museum night is quite impressive, particular for upper grades  and the EC teachers are introducing the masters and modernists to Pre-K students.  [/quote]

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