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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two Rivers (both 4th and Young) will have exhausted their WL in all grades by the time school starts. That is an astounding fall from grace for a once formerly high demand school. It saddens me. [/quote]

The upper grades and middle were never really high demand. It was built on assumptions about potential that never came through. [/quote]

Agreed, but I would say that TR4's reputation as already starting to suffer when we were doing the PK lottery back in 2018. We ranked our IB (L-T), SWS, CHML, ITDS, Lee Brookland, Tyler (now Chisolm), and Stokes Brookland all above TR4 even though it's a lot closer than many of those options. I remember touring it and thinking it felt kind of like the Appletree campuses -- a nurturing ECE program that would be a good safety if you didn't get into a school you liked more.

I do not remember people being particularly enthusiastic about TRY or the middle school at that time. I think people were always kind of skeptical of the location of that campus, and it's honestly not that convenient for people on the Hill. For us, ITDS is a shorter car commute and a school like Lee or Stokes in Brookland only slightly further. No one was choosing TR over those options for the middle school. And I think S-H was already gaining purchase as a viable option for some families at that time.

I don't think TR has been considered highly desirable for anything past K since Maury and L-T became more in-demand IB schools. So like almost a decade ago. And it's only gone downhill from there.[/quote]

Back in the years of extreme PK3 waitlists, it did have over 350 kids waitlisted. I'm remembering my DD's number in 2016. But yeah, downhill since then. Clearly they really struggled to manage the expansion. And that's too bad because I think the insight of wanting to create a larger middle school that offered more, by having two elementaries, wasn't wrong. It's just a really hard thing to actually do.[/quote]

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