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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I probably would not if my kids were old enough today. But they have a while until high school age and I'm hoping I'm sold on the school by then.[/quote]

This. We are in ES now. Deal looks good as of today. We are hoping Wilson improves by the time we get there. I am optimistic that it will. I think some of Wilson's improvement is inevitable, but some of it depends on progress at Hardy (IB buy in), which is more of a wild card. [/quote]

Hardy is not a wild card for Wilson. The kids coming out of Hardy are fine.  According to my SIL who graduated from Wilson, most of the problems stemmed from the kids who came from SW and were zoned for Wilson.  If I am not mistaken, SW was cut out of Wilson with the new boundary change.  I will recheck this, but correct me if I am wrong.[/quote]

I'll respond to your post and ignore the predictable race-baiting in the post that followed it. Mine is the second post above.

First, yes you are correct about the boundary change. But I don't know about this issue of SW students causing "most of the problems" because I don't know if you and I are talking about the same problems. I am mostly although not entirely concerned with academic performance.

If you look at test scores just as one measure, you see that Wilson is similar to Hardy and Deal is a cut above. Deal and Hardy are the two feeders. Therefore it is reasonable to think that the Deal graduates bring Wilson's scores up and the Hardy graduates balance them out (down). But Wilson's boundary was larger than the combined boundary of Hardy and Deal, plus it has always had a lot of OOB, so I concede that maybe I am being too simplistic here. In any event, for those IB for Deal, there is a clear performance difference between Deal and Wilson.

The usual reply from Wilson supporters is that there are two tracks at Wilson, aka Yale and jail, so you should just look at the subset of the school that applies to your kid. Thanks for the advice, but I'll still consider the whole school.

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I appreciate you acknowledging that perhaps you were being too simplistic and ignoring other factors that could arguably play a greater role in the test score differences between Deal and Wilson.  You should also take into account the fact that some kids struggle and get distracted in high school. Bright kids (yes, Deal kids) can have difficulty keeping their grades up after leaving middle school. Navigating all of the "stuff" that comes with being a teenager is not easy, no matter the SES level of your household.[/quote]

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