Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 14:54     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Our child was just accepted to Francis-Stevens, so we're going there, unless she spends another year at daycare, with which we are happy.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 14:11     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Creative Minds - (slightly jealous of the MV poster). Love my school, don't love the commute.

I love my neighborhood and can't imagine living anywhere else.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 14:07     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Anonymous wrote:yes, lucky for you!


I did two years of the reverse commute though without a problem, and I would have continued without complaint.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 14:07     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Anonymous wrote:When you moved there - what were your plans?


Private school but we applied to YY which was our first choice and got in.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 14:04     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
yes, lucky for you!
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 14:04     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Inbounds for Thomson, but our child is in MV. I know two other MV children who are also inbounds for Thomson.

I moved here many years before I thought of having kids, but I love it, so I have no desire to leave the neighborhood, and lucky for me, the school is moving closer.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 14:02     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
We're zoned for Thomson but send our kid to a charter that's close now but is moving next year. We are on the waitlist for Garrison, but hoping to stay at the charter (their location is still up in the air and so we wanted a local option just in case.)
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:59     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Anonymous wrote:My son, age 7, has been attending the Capitol Hill Cluster School (Peabody and Watkins campuses) since Pre-K/4; luckily, we got in via the lottery, and have been quite happy there. However, I learned just yesterday that, quite incredibly, my son has "won" a 2nd grade spot at Two Rivers via this year's lottery (they say that, statistically, it's easier to get into Harvard), so he'll be attending there in the Fall. A family one street over from us have two children attending Two Rivers as well.


Do you live on the Hill?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:58     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
My son, age 7, has been attending the Capitol Hill Cluster School (Peabody and Watkins campuses) since Pre-K/4; luckily, we got in via the lottery, and have been quite happy there. However, I learned just yesterday that, quite incredibly, my son has "won" a 2nd grade spot at Two Rivers via this year's lottery (they say that, statistically, it's easier to get into Harvard), so he'll be attending there in the Fall. A family one street over from us have two children attending Two Rivers as well.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:37     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
The only "downtown" DCPS is Thomson. Expand that radius a bit north and you'll have Seaton/Garrison/Ross/Francis-Stevens. What are your boundaries?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:36     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Anonymous wrote:Almost all my friends send their kids to charter schools.

CM, IT, MV, LAMB, Cap City we represent most of the major schools.



Cap City and LAMB are pretty far from Downtown.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:35     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
When you moved there - what were your plans?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:34     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Almost all my friends send their kids to charter schools.

CM, IT, MV, LAMB, Cap City we represent most of the major schools.

Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:18     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
where else do they send them privates somewhere?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2014 13:02     Subject: Downtown/Mid-City Families
Where do you send your kid to school?

I've been surprised by how few families that self-identify as mid-city go to DCPS schools. So, if you are from the downtown/mid-city area where are you sending (or now planning to send) your child to school?