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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Myth: "Deal is very white and "private" in flavor"

Fact: Last year, just 37% of Deal students were white, and 29% qualified for free or reduced-price lunches.

Myth: It is still very common for murch, lafayette, and janney kids to leave DCPS during or at the end of ES."

Fact: More than 90% of Janney 5th graders matriculated to Deal this year.[/quote]

I'm the author of the second "myth," and I have no idea if your data point is accurate.  I hope it is, since we are a murch family that will move on to deal.  But it doesn't make my statement a myth, since it doesn't account for the families who pull their kids out of dcps in earlier grades--3rd is apparently a big private school admission year.  So 90% of 5th graders doesn't fully address the attrition question.[/quote]

Well I will give you an anecdote to counter the myth.  As another PP noted, last year well over 90% of 5th graders at Lafayette chose Deal.  The attrition in 3rd that folks speak of has completely dwindled at Lafayette.  This year we ADDED a 5th grade class and I can speak from personal experience that my daughter has ALL of her close friends from Kindergarten and she is now in 5th - there was little to no attrition in 3rd and those that left, left for other reasons, mostly job relocation or returning to other countries, etc.  So in my view it is inaccurate to make a broad statement about attrition in lower grades, in my experience it is no longer the case. At Lafayette we are getting to a critical mass of families choosing Deal and in my opinion this is what DCPS needs and this is what other families need to make the decision to stay in DCPS for middle school.    [/quote]

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