Well at JR…whites are now 36% of the student body and I believe they are the most represented race.

Anonymous wrote:I would really hate to be that one white kid at one of those schools. I imagine they are probably relentlessly singled out and teased.

I mean, I hope not. I feel like a lot of us project our own high school experience on to high schools today. Like, at my son's school they gave the boys a long lecture about not getting any girls pregnant, when teen pregnancy rates are way down but peaked when people my age and that administrator's age were in high school.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like pretty good proof the white liberals tend to send their kids to private schools instead of the public schools in areas where they are social pioneering. It is at least some acknowledgement that deep down, they understand the world they live in doesn't match up with the idealistic world they champion, and won't risk their own children for their stated beliefs.

You got all that nonsense from a few numbers?

Freak

I would really hate to be that one white kid at one of those schools. I imagine they are probably relentlessly singled out and teased.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Banneker is the only school on that list where you can make a reasonable case that white parents have avoided it because of the racial makeup.

The neighborhood high schools white kids avoid are the same ones with extremely low IB participation rates overall. They aren't good schools, and It's crazy that some of these numbers aren't even lower.

My sense with Banneker is that white parents have less enthusiasm for the school largely because of how the principal runs the school, less because of race. Principal is very strict with discipline and many classes have a drill and kill approach. Communication from the school is minimal. Sports teams are mostly weak. Extracurriculars are mostly weak. The split between IB and AP means that you don’t have a wide selection of AP or IB classes. STEM is also weak. Banneker does somethings very well but those things are not especially valued by white parents as a whole

Do you have any experience with Banneker? Or just a “sense”?

Anonymous wrote:Banneker is the only school on that list where you can make a reasonable case that white parents have avoided it because of the racial makeup.

The neighborhood high schools white kids avoid are the same ones with extremely low IB participation rates overall. They aren't good schools, and It's crazy that some of these numbers aren't even lower.

My sense with Banneker is that white parents have less enthusiasm for the school largely because of how the principal runs the school, less because of race. Principal is very strict with discipline and many classes have a drill and kill approach. Communication from the school is minimal. Sports teams are mostly weak. Extracurriculars are mostly weak. The split between IB and AP means that you don’t have a wide selection of AP or IB classes. STEM is also weak. Banneker does somethings very well but those things are not especially valued by white parents as a whole

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here:
Obviously this is just raw numbers not percentages, which are easy to find.

Would be helpful to see the side-by-side.

37 is actually up quite a bit for Banneker from my anecdotal experience of 4 in the freshman class a few years ago (neighbor's kid). I wonder what the spread is across the 4 years.

As far as I can tell, there's no place where the spread across the four years is published. But Banneker is 4.8% white and 20% hispanic as of last school year.

Anonymous wrote:OP here:
Obviously this is just raw numbers not percentages, which are easy to find.

Would be helpful to see the side-by-side.

37 is actually up quite a bit for Banneker from my anecdotal experience of 4 in the freshman class a few years ago (neighbor's kid). I wonder what the spread is across the 4 years.

This thread is pointless!

The number of white kids in public and charter schools has doubled in the last ten years.

https://edscape.dc.gov/page/pop-and-students-public-school-enrollment-by-race-and-ethnicity

Overall, the story of these numbers is that where there was white flight, white families are slowly sending their kids to public schools in DC at higher rates.

Banneker is the only school on that list where you can make a reasonable case that white parents have avoided it because of the racial makeup.

The neighborhood high schools white kids avoid are the same ones with extremely low IB participation rates overall. They aren't good schools, and It's crazy that some of these numbers aren't even lower.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like pretty good proof the white liberals tend to send their kids to private schools instead of the public schools in areas where they are social pioneering. It is at least some acknowledgement that deep down, they understand the world they live in doesn't match up with the idealistic world they champion, and won't risk their own children for their stated beliefs.

How would it be proof of that absent statistics on how many DC kids attend private schools?

Seems like pretty good proof the white liberals tend to send their kids to private schools instead of the public schools in areas where they are social pioneering. It is at least some acknowledgement that deep down, they understand the world they live in doesn't match up with the idealistic world they champion, and won't risk their own children for their stated beliefs.

OP here:
Obviously this is just raw numbers not percentages, which are easy to find.

School Year 2023-2024

Hadn't seen this before. Thought I'd share.

Ballou 0
Bard High School Early College 1
Anacostia 1
Maya Angelou 1
Statesman College Preparatory Academy 1
Luke C Moore 1
Woodson 1
Paul High School 2
Phelps 3
Roosevelt STAY 4
EL Haynes 4
Perry Street Prep 4
Washington Leadership Academy 5
Dunbar 3
Coolidge 6
Cap City 7
Roosevelt High School 9
CHEC 13
Eastern 21
Sojourner truth 25
Mc Kinley Tech 24
Banneker 37
MacArthur 52
Duke Ellington 92
Basis 116
DCI 173
Washington Latin 143
School Without Walls 283
Jackson-Reed 722