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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give us a break.  Brent students don't score as high on PARCC as schools in Upper NW mainly because those schools got a 25-year head start in serving UMC communities. Brent does darn well for an EotP school that went from having fewer than 200 students, almost all low SES, to having almost 500 students and being overwhelmingly high SES in a little over a decade.  Also, Brent offers 5 specials - most DCPS programs offer 3 or 4.  Good.
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Hmmm ok, then why don’t Brent kids score as high as Inspired Teaching kids? Haven’t they only been open for like 6-7 years???? Stop with the excuses, your $400k pta funds haven’t helped enough with pull outs. OP, choose Maury. They are a 5 star school (94% grade). Brent is 4 star (65%). 30 point difference is HUGE! Maury serves a more diverse population as well.  [/quote]

Maury and Brent are both fine.  School choice is hardly the only choice parents face on Cap Hill.  If the Maury catchment area works better than Brent for your housing situation or commute or whatever, better choice.  If you're not thrilled with the academics at your EotP DCPS and see gaps, you can fill them without too much trouble via trips to the NE or SE libraries, Smithsonian museums (just walk down), Kumon math etc. Schlepping to a distant charter isn't the better option, unless you can't live without language immersion.

Depends what you mean by "diverse population."  Brent's seeing more ethnic and international diversity all the time. When we started, the school was 0% Asian and 1% ELL.  Now it's around 4% for both, because more immigrant and foreign parents enrolling.[/quote]

WOW 4%!!!!!!

This is the reason why we drive to an immersion charter- because we don’t want our kids to be an only. Also Eliot Home, Jefferson, and Stuart Hobson are embarrassingly bad. [/quote]

This is also why we declined our spots at the overrated  SWS. [/quote]

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