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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread was about Eastern trying to improve and people basically immediately saying they'd never send their kids because of test scores and then slowly starting to say also there are other reasons, like fit.

So I mean it, what can Eastern do to prove to higher SES parents to stay. It's apparently not getting a seasoned principal, or building out IB, so what is it? I am sincerely asking. I think there are a lot of HSs and MSs in DC that would love to keep their IB populations but truly struggle with how to balance a culture of people jumping ship even before kids get to MS and HS for WOTP while serving the students that do matriculate. [/quote]

Honestly, with the economy going the way it is, Eastern may not have to do much. More and more feeder families will not be able to afford moving or private school, and will be unlucky in the lottery. I know several families with a high SES who are at Eliot Hine simply because they lost the lottery. These families will likely continue to Eastern, because they’ve liked the EH experience, don’t want to move, and know its hard to get a seat at Walls/Banneker/DCI/Latin for HS. [/quote]

Sending your kid to EH is totally different than sending your kid to Eastern. There's a big drop off in in in-boundary enrollment numbers. There are other options than those four other schools, especially because by high school, the kids can get themselves wherever. [/quote]

Yes but the question was why and how to change that. PP's response makes some sense. People who can no longer afford to move or to pay private may start investing more in MS and subsequently HS.[/quote]

Look at the enrollment data. Most students who are zoned for Eastern don't go there, and that excludes the private school kids (and obviously the ones who moved away.) It is very easy to avoid your neighborhood high school in DC. [/quote]

This has come up in threads about other schools/feeder patterns over the past 1-2 years. If you look closely at enrollment patterns and trends in the last 5-10 years, as well as general numbers related to number of kids at certain age bands in the public schools, there are notable changes/patterns even in a short time period. Both can be true, that most kids in a boundary don't go to a certain school, but that it is more/different than it was in recent years. If I have learned anything the last 10 years in DCPS and the last 20 years living in the city, is that looking at historical data about schools, neighborhoods, etc. can only take you so far.[/quote]

More kids might enroll in Eastern. But the parents who were going to do private school or move are going to figure something else out. [/quote]

Right, I don’t think this thread is about those families. [/quote]

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