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[quote=Anonymous]In DC, you have to decide what kind of school will work for your kid. Do you want language immersion?  Montessori?  Expeditionary learning?

Test scores are pretty important to me, but you need to look at them in the context of the school. Some schools are changing in the lower grades while still having difficulties in the upper grades.

You also need to understand that a lot of schools here which are touted as the "best" are brand spanking new and largely untested. That's not to say they're bad schools, but just realize that while a school can get a lot of buzz on dcum, it may be new. New schools are Creative Minds, Shining Stars, Lee Montessori, and Mundo Verde. Please correct me if I've missed some.

Some schools don't accept kids past a certain age. LAMB, one of the most established and best charters only accepts kids at ages 3 and 4. Yu Ying stops accepting kids at first grade.

Finally, some cbarters have middle schools or feeder middle schools. The newest one is DC International School which is an IB School. Lots of people really like this school because DCI feeders (Yu Ying, LAMB, Stokes, Mundo Verde, and DC Bilingual) are very highly regarded. But that is a totally brand new school.  Inspired Teaching, EL Haynes, Two Rivers, Capital City, and CMI (right?) all have middle schools.  Please note that this is not even close to a complete List. I only mention this because it's worthwhile to have a middle school option.

While this while discussion has centered around Charters, there are some great DCPS schools. Most of them have a preference for kids in the cachement, but there are some slots here and there. Some have a citywide lottery like School Within a School, SWW@ Francis Stevens, and Capitol hill Montessori at Logan.

Hope this helps!  There are some educational consultants here and there like EV Downey who can help you through the process. [/quote]

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