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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SH is not strictly-speaking a "Ward 6" school.  It is supposed to be a neighborhood school that serves the families living in the nearby area.  The same is true for the two other middle schools located in Ward 6, namely Jefferson and EH.  As presently constituted, approximately 19 percent of SH students are IB and 54 percent are FARMS eligible.  This is not surprising given the OOB percentages for Watkins, JO Wilson and Ludlow-Taylor.  As I am not aware of any former Brent students who attend SH, and must assume that few former Maury students opted to attend, SH simply is not meeting its obligation to serve as a neighborhood school for the vast majority of Capitol Hill families living within a ten block radius of the school.  And, yes, I do not consider H Street to be Capitol Hill, much less Rosedale or "Hill East." [/quote]

"Hill East"?  Depends on how far east,    Kingman Park may be borderline, but virtually everything to the west of it is Capitol Hill. Hill East used to just refer to the eastern edge of the historic district, but that distinction is less relevant as the areas have changed over time.  Even Barney Circle is generally considered the Hill.

Maury and Brent are both phyiscally closer to SH than Watkins, but that's not the overriding factor.  The boundary for SH is deliberately microscopic becuase the system favors feeders over inboundary students.  The broader Hill community can only access SH by living within the tiny boundary (smaller than the Cluster boundary), by OOB lottery, or by attending Watkins through 5th with its larger Cluster boundary and easier OOB space and then rising to SH.  If Watkins is a preference that's fine, but for many Hill residents SH does not serve as a true community school unless you ignore the many public school alternatives and enroll in the Cluster for ES.  We'll take our chances with charters for MS before being forced into an ES school which is not our preference.  
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I get it.  People who overpayed for a rowhouse at 16th and F NE (or pick some other location) want to brag that they live on Capitol Hill.  Captiol Hill does not magically expand with the passage of time merely because surrounding blocks continue to gentrify.  In any event, I think we all understand that the Cluster rigged the system to prioritize its constituency over IB populations that were formerly predominately AA and low income.  The model has proven to be a failure.
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