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These 2 things are both true.  Takoma is getting more neighborhood buy in and many local families do choose charters (especially charters with a DCI feed).

For example Takoma used to drop enrollment much more significantly in higher grades (having only 1 cohort in 5th grade for example when 1st had 4 cohorts).  This year they have 3 cohorts consistently across 3-5th grade.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think 10 years after it opens, Euclid might be marginally acceptable.  Frances EC and several charters will still be substantially better.

Any thoughts on MacFarland?[/quote]

MacFarland is on a long-term trend toward gentrification because of its neighborhood. In ten years it will look like Bancroft, BMPV, or Powell. Right now, if you were in MacFarland, you would see the number of white (or white-appearing, e.g., including White Hispanic and mixed background) students is significant, and their parents are engaged in the school. Ten years from now, that will mean a full-on money-raising PTO and all of that. There will be much fewer English-language learners with very little English, and there will be less Black students.

Long-term, the neighborhoods of Petworth/16H/Upper Ward 1 that support MacFarland are becoming much more expensive. As it is I am surprised at how long Spanish speakers have persisted. Rents cannot be good compared to say just east of DC in Chillum or Hyattsville or wherever. Given its housing stock I think of this neighborhood long-term turning into another version of the WOTP rowhouse areas: expensive starter homes for families that later move out of DC.

In addition, Wells is becoming popular and unavailable for many. For those who can't get into DCI, Wells, etc., at least some will come to MacFarland.

A downside will probably be wariness of Roosevelt, which I think will persistently not be able to focus resources on students who don't need remedial assistance to get to minimal high school competence. Coolidge is further along in this regard, and I would be surprised if there isn't another citywide high school with advanced programming in 10 years (along with McKinley Tech growing into a third 'high income family choice.')[/quote]

People in Petworth have been hoping MacFarland will improve for decades. It will never actually gain momentum due to it feeding to Roosevelt.  [/quote]

+100

Sorry to say this. I’ve lived in Takoma/Brightwood/16th st heights for over 15 years. Almost none of the schools people have gotten excited about in that time have remained on an upward trajectory.  Powell? Bruce-Monroe? Takoma? EL Haynes? Nope nope nope. Whittier and Wells have boosters on here, but they are still woefully behind wotp schools.

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It’s anecdotal but Takoma seems to be on the upswing. Based on who we talk to in the area, parents sending in boundary there (or Whittier) instead of feeling real pressure for charter.

Almost our entire neighborhood goes to Takoma as their IB. [/quote]

I would not say that.  We know families in Takoma who are in immersion charters.  It’s a no brainer because DCI is right there - a charter neighborhood middle/high school that your kid could walk or bike to school.[/quote][/quote]

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