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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give us a break. Most high SES families of all stripes who enroll at LT for ECE still leave by 4th or 5th grade.  But it was the very same story at Brent and Maury for the first decade after each of these schools started to "turn." LT will catch up soon enough, within 4 or 5 years.  It takes a lot longer for neighborhood parents in a gentrifying area to collectively feel confident about the upper ES grades in a DCPS school that new parents tend to think.  The reality is that embassy types are about the last neighborhood parents stay through 4th or 5th.  [/quote]

I actually bet the number of high SES kids at the schools in 5th grade isn’t as different as you think. LT sends some high SES kids to SH every year whereas Brent and Maury send almost none to their respective feeders.[/quote]

Not true about Maury. Significant numbers trying Eliot-Hine. [/quote]

Doesn't EH have like 20 white kids total? "Significant numbers" seems like a pretty big stretch there. My impression is that UMC POCs are even less likely to try these middle schools for reasons I totally understand.[/quote]

Maury has a small 5th grade class and a lot of them are enrolling. I expect this to continue with UMC Payne families too. I’m not trying to prove anything about race either way. Everyone would love to have a neighborhood MS so we and I assume most other families have an open mind. [/quote]

Yes, I assume a big chunk of every 5th grade class enrolls at its feeder. My point was that LT has way more kids in 5th grade (3 classes now), so the drop off between 4th and 5th is much less. My point was just that the previous poster would probably be surprised how comparable the number of high SES kids in the three 5th grade classes are. I completely agree that LT has had more IB attrition before then, though as everyone acknowledges, that is changing year on year. From the very beginning, my only claim was that if I were choosing a school for a young ES student, I think the classroom experience in the three schools is likely pretty comparable and LT has at least one benefit in terms of class size. I have no doubt Maury and Brent have identifiable comparative advantages as well, I just don’t think lack of diversity is one of them. I completely understand wanting a sizeable UMC on/above grade level cohort; LT clearly has that. That’s all.[/quote]

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