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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a current Brent 5th grader. Overall we have been happy for many of the reasons stated above. The problem really isn’t Brent or the upper school model. It’s that DCPS lets the charters start at 5th and many families at Brent don’t want to risk being stuck with Jefferson. If Brent fed into SH, you’d see a pattern more like Ludlow Taylor, where kids choose to stay for 5th. [/quote]

Based on Term 2, the current class of 6th graders at Jefferson are leading all DCPS middle schools in passing all four core classes.  8th graders are also accepted to application HS and privates like Sidwell and Burke.  I hope Brent parents will see Jefferson as a possibility and not a definite no off the bat.  [/quote]

Since grading isn't standardized across schools, I'm not sure this says anything meaningful about Jefferson student performance.

I think Brent will be the last of the Jefferson feeders to see any meaningful buy in from MC/UMC families. The demographics are just too different. From 8% to 61% at risk. And from 67% to 3% white.[/quote]

Race should not be a factor just at risk percentage. I’m not sure why white Van Ness parents don’t buy in. It’s a school with 46% at risk and 18% white. 
It’s already a mediocre school overall even though the design inside is nice.[/quote]

Because being one of a few white kids in a class is very different from being the only white kid in a class. Especially when classmates are even less likely to be from a similar socioeconomic background, regardless of race.

Because differentiation in middle school looks very different from differentiation in elementary school. Fewer than 20 students took Algebra I at Jefferson. And only half of them passed the CAPE.[/quote]

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