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[quote=Anonymous]20-25% in-boundary for the last 15 years is what's unacceptable.

Parents' perceptions of schools are as relevant as test scores and programming. Arguably, Brent students would do better on the PARCC if the school didn't offer five specials, rather than fewer like the other Hill DCPS ES.  Brent parents must like five specials (the norm in JKLM), even if they come at the expense of slightly depressed PARCC scores for the demographic.

It's also true that Brent and Maury attract and retain most IB parents through 4th grade, while Ludlow doesn't yet. The fact that Ludlow's on its 3rd principal in five years hasn't been ideal. On current trends, Ludlow will continue to come along, catching up to Maury eventually on the IB buy-in front. But pretending that most IB parents ARE sold on Ludlow for the upper grades simply because they SHOULD BE gets us nowhere.

A decade back, I thought that that most IB parents would be enrolling their 11 year olds at SH by 2018. Yet only around 1/4 of them, 1/3 tops, are doing this. Yes, the school is improving, but not nearly fast enough for most. DCPS and fellow parents can't order them to enroll, or to move to the burbs either. Parents must be incentivized to feel excited about a school to enroll and stay.

With political will, two DCPS Hill middle schools could have worked.   [/quote]

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