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Reply to "Will Van Ness Elementary School be on the same level as Brent/Maury in 3 years?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I could be completely off-base here, but would be interested to hear some reactions. I feel like a problem with Capitol Hill schools, generally, is that there are a fair number of families who are still in their "starter" homes, and with free PS/PK, they figure they may as well stay in DC for those years, and maybe they stay for a little longer if the school is pretty good and for whatever other reasons they aren't ready to put down a down payment on a new house. And that is why you see a lot of kids leaving DC at K, first, second grade. I feel like this phenomenon would be even more pronounced for Van Ness, where most of the housing would be market-rate high-rise condos. So you may get a school that is great in the lower grades, but then loses that neighborhood feel in the upper grades and gets lots of OOB kids (and of course, the "problems" this creates is debatable on DCUM)[/quote]
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