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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]

There was Jefferson buy in at Brent before Covid and immediately after. But then word started to get around about bad experiences and the whole climate has shifted. People tried Jefferson and it did not work. Way too big of a shift from Brent to Jefferson at an age when academics really start to matter. [/quote]

PP is right. We know several Brent families who went with Jefferson for an older sib but sent the younger sib(s) to Stuart Hobson or charters post Covid. A good Jefferson principal left during the pandemic, replaced by a mediocre one.

DCPS really blew it at Jefferson. If they'd offered true honors classes there in all core subjects (like Arlington does) they'd might have kept the momentum up. But the window closed and UMC families of all races have largely, and logically, shunned Jefferson since the pandemic. Brent parents are hardly to blame for the "definite no off the bat." [/quote]

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