FWIW Maury prepared my 5th grader very well for BASIS. I think all BASIS kids who came from Maury are doing overall better than peers coming from other schools.

Lol.
OP, the way you can tell the Maury parents replying to you is that they are kind, trying to be helpful, not trying to bring others down about their choice of MS or, gasp, a random typo. That’s what you can expect at Maury, along with lots of bright kids who go to a variety of middle schools. Wishing you luck.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes the famous EG

What is EG?

Sorry, EH.

Usually the academically advanced know the name of their own school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes the famous EG

What is EG?

Sorry, EH.

Haha, that makes more sense🙂

And to go along with the earlier post about enrollment pathways, there are increasing numbers of kids from the feeder schools going and larger cohorts of kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Ah yes the famous EG

What is EG?

Sorry, EH.

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes the famous EG

What is EG?

Ah yes the famous EG

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering moving our DS from a private school to Maury for various reasons. What is the school like at the third grade level? On papre, the stats look fine, but what do current parents think about the current experience? Is the curriciulum for writing/literacy effective?

Also, we understand the middle school situation on the Hill. Is third grade too late in the game where kids at teh school are already peeling off for other options to get situated for middle and high school?

That is fine. You just need to hope that you get into Basis for 5th grade if your kid is academically advanced or Latin if not.

Not true.

- parent of academically advanced kid in EG.

Anonymous wrote:Maury does not lose a significant number of kids until between 4th & 5th grade. I'm not saying there are zero leaving, but it's a handful and it's not disproportionately high achievers. The above is just wrong.

And the numbers lost are getting smaller too. they have two full 5th grades now.

Anonymous wrote:Maury does not lose a significant number of kids until between 4th & 5th grade. I'm not saying there are zero leaving, but it's a handful and it's not disproportionately high achievers. The above is just wrong.

This page has been referenced in other threads but for anybody that is not seen it I wanted to re-share.
https://edscape.dc.gov/page/student-enrollment-pathways

You can see where kids go between 4th and 5th, or 5th and 6th, or 8th and 9th. For Maury specifically it looks like the last year they had data (before last year), 50+ kids stayed from 4th-5th, and roughly 30 kids went to Eliot Hine.
I am sure it varies every year, and I think more than 30 kids went to Eliot Hine last year (they had to hire another teacher bc of unexpected enrollment).

I think the data on that site is going to update in a few weeks to include this current year, but not sure.

Maury parent of multiple. Yes, the curriculum/writing is excellent. No, very few leave (except for normal churn/moving reasons) till 5th (to go to charters). I have many other great things to say about this school, but trying to keep specific to your questions. We went through the middle school private school admissions process and had no difficulties with competitiveness.

Anonymous wrote:We are considering moving our DS from a private school to Maury for various reasons. What is the school like at the third grade level? On papre, the stats look fine, but what do current parents think about the current experience? Is the curriciulum for writing/literacy effective?

Also, we understand the middle school situation on the Hill. Is third grade too late in the game where kids at teh school are already peeling off for other options to get situated for middle and high school?

That is fine. You just need to hope that you get into Basis for 5th grade if your kid is academically advanced or Latin if not.

Maury does not lose a significant number of kids until between 4th & 5th grade. I'm not saying there are zero leaving, but it's a handful and it's not disproportionately high achievers. The above is just wrong.

Not a Maury parent but a DCPS one. My friend group all have early elementary age kids. The ones still on the Hill are already making plans/moving their kids so yes, the high achieving cohort is already starting to peel off. Especially those who are going to have a harder time with private school admissions (no hooks, not wealthy or well connected, not alums of HYPS/Ivies/Michigan/Berkeley/etc). They’re trying to set themselves up now because they don’t want to leave the city.

We are considering moving our DS from a private school to Maury for various reasons. What is the school like at the third grade level? On papre, the stats look fine, but what do current parents think about the current experience? Is the curriciulum for writing/literacy effective?

Also, we understand the middle school situation on the Hill. Is third grade too late in the game where kids at teh school are already peeling off for other options to get situated for middle and high school?