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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OP, it is unfortunately extremely simple and cannot be replicated by intention, though it may be, and is being, replicated via the same demographic shifts in other neighborhoods.

In DC, test scores are highly correlated with family income and education. Dupont Circle has nearly 0% poverty. Expensive real estate, no homeless shelters. Formerly when the school was not doing as well it was because it had a high percentage of OOB students who weren't doing as well. At some point IB interest was piqued, and the school quickly "flipped" as the all-IB early childhood classes moved up through the years and the OOB percentage dropped. They also had a good principal during those years (now at HD Cooke?) but the demographics can take most of the credit.

This also happened at Brent.

This cannot and will not happen so quickly or at all in neighborhoods with a lot of affordable apartments or homeless shelters, even when those neighborhoods are seeing rapid appreciation in the price of market-rate real estate.

Sorry if this is very blunt, not politically correct, and sorry if this is bad news, OP. [/quote]

I don't think you're giving Ross enough credit.  It has 25% FARMS students (compared to less than 5% in most of the JKLM schools), but somehow has similar scores to the JKLM.

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