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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maury is not welcoming to new kids. It is good academically, but for one year, your kid have a much better experience at L-T. Don’t overcount test scores that don’t even come from the grades your kid would be attending.[/quote]

Ridiculous [/quote]

Sorry, but I think this is true. It’s not that the kids or families at Maury are mean, they’re not at all. But Maury gets very few new kids after K and this isn’t a situation where the family will know some Maury families already from DC Way or Studio One or whatever. That means that most friendship groups — including parents — are already pretty established and there’s not a culture of welcoming new kids/families every year. Of course her kid could get lucky, but it could also be an uphill climb. Maury is a very good school and if she was staying long-term, sure it could be worth it. But for one first grade year, going to a school that has similar test scores for demographics (slightly worse overall, but almost entirely drive by demographic differences & still good, especially in ELA) but a culture of kids coming in every year is going to be a much easier nut to crack. Ask a Maury family what year the kids at their kids’ birthday party started at the school and I guarantee you the answer is overwhelmingly PK3-K; the same thing simply isn’t true at L-T where more lottery movement means that new kids are integrated into friendship groups every year.[/quote]

You have no idea what you are talking about. maury gets a lot of new kids in the older grades and a steady stream of turn over every year. And although I guess some parents have weird hang ups and insecurities, the vast majority of kids don’t and make friends readily. This is about the dumbest discourse on Hill schools I have read recently and that is saying a lot. My guess is that if you approach *first grade* as a “nut to crack,” you are the one with the problem, not the other parents. [/quote]

The fact that you think Maury gets a lot of new kids in older grades compared to almost any DCPS in the city shows how out of touch you are. Last year, Maury offered 0 seats from 1st upwards in the initial lottery. They filled approx 5 seats across those grades from the WL. The year before they also offered zero slots, but filled more from the WL. The other schools were talking about offer 5-15 seats per grade initially. Last year, Ludlow had 9 1st grade lottery seats, so at least than many new 1st graders.[/quote]

That’s definitely not true for 3-5th. [/quote]

Not sure what you’re saying isn’t true. It is 100% true and confirmable on the lottery results page that Maury hasn’t offered a seat in the initial lottery in 1st grade or up since at least 2019, so any new kids in a particular grade are very hit or miss (they have often offered some seats via the WL; it’s hard to know how many seats v offers). That’s very different than Ludlow (and most other Hill schools) that routinely offer 5-15 spots a year, so there are reliably new kids in every grade. That’s not an insult to Maury; it’s a sign of its popularity. But it’s also a reason it might be harder to be a new kid there.[/quote]

You realize kids can come in not without the lottery. My DC is in 4th at Maury and I can count 15 kids who have left and other 12 new ones who have replaced them since she started in K.  (We were an Apple Tree family).  People move to NW, overseas, back to the midwest, kids go to St Peter's etc etc.  [/quote]

NP who hasn't posted regarding this Maury thing.

What you don't realize is that is very low turnover for a Hill elementary in upper grades. And most of the new students coming in are people moving into the zone, not coming in via lottery. I am sure it seems like a lot to families within the school, especially at a school most people like and where it is sad to lose families to private school or moving away. But even at L-T and Brent you see more turn over than that and both schools admit more students via lottery in earlier grades as a result. It's basically impossible to get a lottery spot at Maury until 5th (when a larger group of students leave to head to charters or private middle schools), whereas there are a handful of lottery families every year at even other in-demand Hill schools. L-T and Brent both lose more IB families regularly in part because they attract a lot of people who, like OP, are working on the Hill, which has a ton of natural turnover, so you have people moving in and out of the zones more and this results in more lottery spots and more movement. Brent has also had more movement in recent years due to their swing space move, which inevitably results in some people deciding to lottery elsewhere to avoid it -- Maury's renovation now predates most families at the school so you won't have experienced that in your time there.

I understand your defensiveness but people are not wrong. Parents at Maury don't realize they are outliers because the vast majority of Maury parents live IB and, like you, their only experience at another school was for PK. At other Hill elementaries, there is just more churn in general and that leads to greater awareness of enrollment trends at various schools. That's why you are getting pushback here -- Maury families tend to be out of the loop because of the lack of churn at the school.[/quote]

Wait til 4th and 5th. 3rd also has a lot of turnover. [/quote]

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