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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, if SH were a solid choice, the in-boundary population wouldn't have been beating down the doors to get in to Washington Latin, BASIS, privates, and even Hardy and DCI, to stay in the neighborhood in the last five years.

There are 2 or 3 SH booster threads like this one on DCUM every year, without that changing anything.[b] The in-boundary/high SES percentage increases by 2 or 3 percentage points annually. At this glacial pace, in 20 years, the school will finally be good enough to attract most in-boundary families.  [/b]

Everybody in-boundary I know who uses the school is farther on the left politically than we are, and we're definitely on the left.

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At the current pace, the school will be 20% white in what, 3 years?   Add in some high SES POC's, and its got to be at least 25% high SES?  Isn't that the point at which it likely flips completely in a couple of more years? Isn't that basically where Hardy is now?  [/quote]

Is race your only metric for quality? Appears so. I've said this on many threads before - Cluster parent including SH and on to Walls. [/quote]

Glad to have a SH parent join in! I'd love to hear more about your experiences.

But, I'm a (white) SH enthusiast who's planning on sending my child there, and I think that's a bit harsh reaction. The percentage of children who are white does provide some useful information.

I want my child to both have a diverse, well-behaved peers, but also with a significant share who are at his (on or above grade) academic level. It's harder to get the latter in a very poor school.

Clearly, the share of academically successful students is going to be lower among poorer children. (Obligatory caveat: It's not a great predictor; every child should be judged individually, etc.) I see from the profile that SH is 47% economically disadvantaged and 11% white. My impression is that the bulk of the white students are going to be academically on track or advanced, both because they have the familial support and because they are coming from richer families who are more likely to be able to send them to different schools if they are not doing well at SH. Of the economically disadvantaged, many are behind, and because the threshold for economic disadvantage is quite low, even among noneconomically disadvantaged nonwhite students, there will be fewer (but still some? many?) from high SES families.

My impression is that with around 130 kids per grade, there are dozens to many dozens of academically advanced students per grade, depending on how you define it. For example, about 20 percent of math and about 40 percent of ELA PARCC scores are 4/5. However, as the school noted, 45% of students come in 2 or more math levels behind.

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