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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one has been claiming that Brent families are recently attending Jefferson in large numbers.  They have instead been claiming that some families at the other three Jefferson elementary school feeders are increasingly open to Jefferson.[/quote]

This just isn't true. Folks absolutely have claimed that or tried to equate the Maury/EH & Brent/Jefferson numbers. This puts lie to that. And there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that Tyler kids are flocking there either. Did anyone doubt AB and VN kids were heading there? One of the oft discussed knocks on Jefferson is that it’s hard to get buy in from the Hill when it’s far away and awkwardly located. Obviously that doesn’t apply to AB or VN.

[b]Also did Jefferson really get zero kids into Walls last year??[/b][/quote]

This data set wouldn't be able to tell you that. Understand how selective high school admissions works. Kids apply and interview for Walls, Banneker, McKinley, Ellington, etc.. Then they rank those schools in MySchoolDC, plus any other schools they are applying to. So, for example, if a kid at Jefferson qualifies for Walls but the kid ranks 1) Ellington 2) Walls, and they get into Ellington, they won't show up on this data as matching with Walls. Same if they ranked 1) Latin and 2) Walls-- if they had a good enough lottery number to get into Latin, they won't show up as matching with Walls. Even though if they had listed 1) Walls and 2) Latin, they would have matched with Walls and not Latin instead. There's really no way to know.[/quote]

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