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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We did SH and are now at Banneker. No regrets. But I know folks have real issues with SH. [/quote]

No regrets because your kid got into Banneker! [/quote]

Pretty much everyone from the DCUM kids crew at SH this year got into Walls, Banneker or Duke. Most got their first choice of those. The minority who didn’t seemed to share a 7th grade English teacher, so choose wisely.[/quote]

You don’t actually know that. And definitely not the story at EH. [/quote]

We do have last year's data.

144 SH 8th graders. 85 4+ on ELA CAPE, 56 took Algebra I (rough proxy for kids likely to apply to application schools). 19 to McKinley, 18 to Duke, 15 to Banneker, n<10 to Walls. 21 not in audit.

111 EH 8th graders. 43 4+ on ELA CAPE, 46 took Algebra I or Geometry (math number might include some 7th graders). 10 to Banneker. n<10 each to Walls, Duke, McKinley. 13 not in audit.

If n<10 on the higher end, overall admissions seem roughly in line with what you would expect. But definitely not a guarantee.[/quote]

What?  No then , not everyone got into Walls, Banneker, or Duke.

Walls is less than 10%.  And you cannot assume it is close to 10.

Dukes academics is weak and the only kids that go there are in the arts, music.

McKinley is not a consideration for many families.

Terrible advice to move to SH or EH IN for middle school.[/quote]

I am the PP and I standby what I said: in the current class, basically all of the kids who have DCUM type parents got into application schools or privates. Looking at the numbers from the year before, roughly the same number of kids got into an application schools as took Algebra I (not any particular score, just *took*). DCUM kids *take* Algebra I. This is not even asking for a 4, just taking the class! That's not even counting the not in audit kids, at least half of whom left for solid privates/Catholics. In the end, there are 10-15 more kids going to good schools than kids who took Algebra I. That works for me. YMMV.[/quote]

Sorry but you are making assumptions that you don’t know to be a fact.   You don’t know which kids from what class got into where.

Kids can choose to take real easy classes to get an A and higher GPA.

Yoir reasoning is a fallacy.[/quote]

I know this particular 8th grade class very well because my kid is in it. I would not pretend I know where every single kid is going, but I do know the destinations of most kids going to applications or privates and I would know if one of the academic kids got shut out. Believe me or not, I don't care.

And I cannot think of a single good to excellent student who opted out of Algebra I. I am sure they exist, but they are so few as to be rounding error.[/quote]

Kick rocks. You don’t know anywhere near as much as you think you do. [/quote]

Do you think there are a large number of DCPS middle schoolers not taking higher level math classes (and their parents and the schools are ok with this) so that their GPA is higher for application HS? Where is this happening? [/quote]

I think your assumptions are totally garbled and don’t match what I actually know about many kids (including my own). [/quote]

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