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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many Charters are super integrated. Even the fancy ones -- BASIS, DCI and Latin fit the actual definition of integrated (no one race more than 70 percent of the population).

Other charters are not integrated but at serving their low-income populations better than the  DCPS schools (like DC Prep getting everyone into college).

DCPS schools in gentrifying neighborhoods are sometimes integrated and there is an opportunity here to be a model. Like I feel Garrison actually serves all demographics well.

Other DCPS schools are not integrated because the housing is segregated. Do people really want to run busses between Ward 3 and EOTR or something? This sounds like a mess.

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BASIS might meet the letter of the law definition of integration, but I don't think a school with 6% of students at risk in a city with a public student population that's 45% at risk is actually what anybody is talking about when they say integration.[/quote]

Pffft.

At least it's possible for very poor children to attend BASIS.

Jackson-Reid, Janney, Murch, Deal, etc. all impose de facto wealth tests on their students. If your parents can't afford a house in Ward 3, sorry you have to go somewhere else! [/quote]

The only schools with a lower at risk percentage than BASIS are Lafayette, Key, Janney, Stokes Brookland, and Mann.[/quote]

I think it’s great that non Ward 3 families have at least a few middle school options without large at-risk populations.[/quote]

Depends what you mean by large. BASIS is very low, but there are lots of middle and high schools in between that and the citywide average.

BASIS 6%
O-A 7%*
SWW 10%
Deal 11%
Latin MS 12%
Hardy 13%
Latin HS 14%
DCI 18%
Latin Cooper MS 19%
ITDS 21%*
Banneker 23%
CHML 24%*
J-R 26%
John Francis 27%*
S-H 27%
DESA 30%
McKinley HS 32%
CMI 36%*
Cap City MS 38%
MacArthur 39%
Sojourner Truth 42%
Cap City HS 42%
EL Haynes MS 43%
Center City Petworth 44%*
E-H 44%
Center City Congress Heights 45%*

*Includes PK-5, probably higher for MS[/quote]

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