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[quote=Anonymous]12:52 poster here.  I still don't understand your point, 12:20.  I agree that changing the "catchment area" doesn't happen quickly (although the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood for Eliot-Hine are much more diverse than your posting would suggest, and certainly much more diverse than the school population).  But that has an impact on the school only if the student body population is drawn from the catchment area.  Right now, the majority of Eliot-Hine students are from outside that area.  And if the school is going to be populated by OOB kids, it is an open question whether they would be the kind of OOB students who go to Deal, for example -- often highly motivated, high-achieving students who want a better education than their neighborhood school can provide, or whose parents at least want that for them.  It may be that there isn't a sufficiently critical mass of very-high-performing students willing to attend Eliot-Hine, and it's likely that there will need to be such a critical mass, but I don't see how that has to do with the catchment area.

In addition, Eliot-Hine's feeder school include some real stand-out elementary school on Capitol Hill, including Brent.  Right now, the number of Brent students heading to Eliot-Hine is miniscule.  Similarly, Maury now has an extremely diverse student body and hopefully will be raising scores soon.  My guess is that very, very few of the parents of high-achieving Maury students would be willing even to entertain the thought of sending a child to Eliot-Hine.  I realize that there is a chicken-and-an-egg problem in trying to build an academic program that will meet the needs of advanced middle school students if few of the existing students are currently operating at that level, but I also have to think that if there were a way to surmount that problem, the makeup of the school would also change.  Build it and they will come.[/quote]

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