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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we start incorporating the FACTS into this conversation?

1)McKinley Tech was 4.7% white in 2024-2025.
It was also 4.7% white in 2023-2024

That's more than 50% higher than 3%, so please stop repeating that false number.

2) There are UMC students who attend that school.
Few UMC WHITE students attend, but quite a few UMC black students do.

In DC shorthand, we know that generally, white students in DC are UMC but that does not mean that no black students are UMC.  Stop equating the two.

I know that because, well, McKinley Tech is 38.1% economy disadvantaged.  That means the majority of students do not fall into that category.  Some, in fact at least 20% I would guess, are at least UMC (you've got to include the 4.7% of white students plus a decent share of the others).  If UMC wasn't so predominantly black, you wouldn't assume this.  So don't, because it's not true.

3) McKinley Tech's stats are already similar to both Duke Ellington and Banneker's.

It's fine with me if you don't want to send your kid there for whatever reason: location, demographics, academic offering.  Just don't act like it's because it's an inherently inferior school when it's really because you don't want your kid to be ia school where they are one of the 5% of white students.

Also, McKinley Tech's CAPE scores (which won't be reflected on the MySchool DC page went up 22% in English last year. So, even if CAPE scores are your main objection, you should keep in mind that they are a moving target and headed in the right direction.

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Where do you see the 4.7% figure?[/quote]

By looking directly at the enrollment audit data here:
https://osse.dc.gov/enrollment
and then calculating the percentage of white-non-hispanic students.[/quote]

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