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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with Matthews and Martel that some of those numbers are way out of wack.

Washington Latin Lower School (41.7 percent)
BASIS Middle School (33.9?percent)
Washington Latin High School (23.9 percent)
Washington Yu Ying elementary school (22.2 percent)

If the pool of students is only 5 - 10% white, it takes some heavy duty self-selection (probable) or something nefarious (unlikely) to get to those percentages. Reminds me of SWS, another school with miraculously high white enrollment (67%).

If nothing else, this could shed some light on comparisons between HRCS and DCPS. If HRCS's have a built in 20-30% boost in high SES enrollment, then those average DC-CAS scores should be that much higher than DCPS, not slightly above par.[/quote]

Whoah whoah whoah.  Where are you getting this 5-10% white?  Most recent Census data shows that DC is now 43.4% white.  http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html

That's what should be "normal" in terms of a citywide distribution.  Any number under that is disproportionately low.[/quote]

And that census data is now out of date, plus, in many parts of the city the numbers of babies being born among predominantly white (though not exclusively) middle class families has sky rocketed.  ANd those families are staying in DC and sending their kids to DCPS or charters.  In my part of ward 5 the percentage of kids under 5 who are white is probably close to 70 percent.   In fact, on my block alone there have been 15 kids born in the past 5 years.  3 of them are black, 2 are mixed race, 10 are white -- ALL are the children of middle class professionals.[/quote]

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