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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though.  I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.[/quote]

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly). [/quote]
Give me a break.  I'm no booster.  My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left.  But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade.  You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.
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Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story. [/quote]

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority. [/quote]

This is not true in my experience. Yes, the academic high flyers at our IB mostly try for Latin and Basis, but if they don't get in, they typically do head to SH. It's parents whose kids who are doing fine but not great who are more likely to move in those circumstances. This year's 4th grade at our school has a ton of kids coming back for 5th as of now and weirdly the best students are all returning (some got shut out in the lottery, some had a miserable BASIS shadow day and refused to go, and some have true believer parents... so it's a mixed bag). If they actually go on to SH the next year in any meaningful percentage, I think it could start a trend at the school because parents looking at the fifth grade next year and then at who goes to SH the following year will no longer have the same FOMO. We'll see.[/quote]

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