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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: Ward 1 schools. Bancroft still feeds to Deal. As long as that is the case, it will remain desirable and therefore difficult to get into OOB. Tubman had a jump in test scores but most higher SES families in bounds for Tubman send their kids OOB somewhere else. The school has seemed pretty opaque to me for the last couple of years, and until this year, I didn't know anyone whose children attended personally. I did know a couple of kids professionally (at risk kids) who go to Tubman but they've left the area. My understanding from the older child was that most of the people she went to school with came from the public housing blocks in Columbia Heights or else they "did not speak English." There were no white kids in her class. Marie Reed has a dual language program and Cooke has a nice building, both of which set them apart from Tubman, despite similar IB demographics.

These schools were considered safety schools last year. This year, I was reasonably sure that those assumptions would not be reliable and unfortunately for the waitlisted families, I was right. We're at Cooke and we have 5 IB PK3 students on the waitlist. Last year, we had 5 OOB PK3 students.[/quote]

I think a primary reason Tubman declined in applicant numbers is due to the fact that their boundary shrunk considerably (and HD Cooke received a large amount of that -- mostly housing projects, actually).  I've also visited their PK classes a number of times and believe it is now about 1/3 to 1/2 white.  And their test scores are still far ahead of HD Cooke. [/quote]

I don't disagree that their scores are better, though I do think that test scores of 3rd-5th graders may not be the best measure of quality for the early childhood classrooms at any school. My anecdotal information about Tubman came from a girl who was in 2nd grade last year. She is not there this year so I cannot speak to what it looks like now. She was the only person I knew at that school. I actually wasn't commenting on one school being superior to another school. I used our waitlist as an example of the degree to which safety schools from years past cannot be counted on as safeties anymore. I remember when POWELL was a safety school![/quote]

PP here. I actually think HDCooke feels like a better choice due to the high parent involvement and rockstar principal. The parent involvement fosters a warmer environment. Tubman is really lacking in that it seems. Hopefully that will turn around. 
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