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Banneker students score, on average, below the national average on SATs.  So, while they do well by DC-CAS standards, on even a metric as watered down as the SAT, they do not do well.  However, if more of those students could be attracted into a more integrated environment with even higher achieving students, perhaps they would do better.

Magnet MS/HS options are DCPS' only hope to hold onto/attract middle and high income families in any ward that is not 80%+ white/high income.  And DCPS is currently just throwing away that card, their one advantage over charter schools, through clueless inaction.  Perhaps its "political," but I don't understand how disadvantaging motivated higher achieving black kids through lack of appropriate school programming is more politically acceptable than giving them a magnet program suited to their talents.  I feel, I truly hope, that DCPS may be on the brink of this realization.  The magnet middle in 7/8 seems promising.  MacFarland will surely be the location for such a thing, as Ward 4 has NO MIDDLE SCHOOL, PERIOD.[/quote]

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