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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for sharing.  When I predicted that the rising 3s would be a significantly smaller group than the rising 4s on a thread a few months ago, mainly due to contracting real estate inventory in the Brent District from around 2012 (many more young families staying, meaning less turnover in row houses, with almost every 3-bedroom house for sale in the Brent District going for a million plus), I met a lot of resistance.  Looks like the very iffy middle and high school feeder situations, and fast-rising real estate prices and rents, are emerging as constraints to in-boundary K enrollment growth.  I can't see Brent dropping a K class because the eligible in-boundary group is contracting over time, so there should be more OOB lottery spots for K in the coming years.

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You could have said the same thing 2 years ago with the current rising K group. But then another huge group was right behind it. The problem is no one knows. The school, DCPS, the city, etc isn't looking at this. The problem with looking at real estate is people move in years before they have kids (our kids came along 6 and 8 years after we moved in, so they didn't show up to Brent until after we had been in our house 10 years). Not to mention the siblings that keep popping up. We know 8 IB siblings between the ages of 12 and 24 months.

[b]If DC would track these things, it would all be much easier.[/b][/quote]

You obviously haven't been following the DC Caller thread.

DC DOES NOT CARE.  The majority of employees live in Ward 9.  Reporting residency cheating doesn't matter.  The idea that like-minded families on the Hill should be able to self-segregate into high-performing schools also doesn't matter.  Brent is an aberration which nobody in municipal government wants to repeat.

DC schools exist for the municipal employees who live in Ward 9.  They boast about it openly.  They run for PTA offices and invite schoolchildren to their homes (in Maryland).  If you want DC schools to serve DC students with any kind of high-expectation curriculum, you have three choices: Ward 3, private school, or Yu Ying/LAMB/other-highly-regarded-charter.

That's all, folks.[/quote]

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