Anonymous wrote:In case you were wondering, Noyes is terrible. I assume that you know that and are making sure that isn't your only option. There are 2 housing projects that feed into that school and very few kids from anywhere else.

More to the point, Noyes is the school where the former principal got caught up in the "erasure-gate" cheating scandal.

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Anonymous wrote:In case you were wondering, Noyes is terrible. I assume that you know that and are making sure that isn't your only option. There are 2 housing projects that feed into that school and very few kids from anywhere else.

Please try to be less judgemental, it just makes you sound BAD and uninformed. Noyes is not terrible just bnecause there are students from housing projects. Please do us all a favor and leave the city if that's how you feel about children from public housing. Noyes has a great early childhood team, and some wonderful teachers in other grades. I have known many students to graduate from Noyes who are wonderful and have since graduated from Banneker and gone to some great colleges. So please take you judgements and assumptions and LEAVE DC!!

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I live in Brookland the kids that live in those housing projects are rough and there is no way around it. They have egged my car, sworn at my kids are out way past 10:00 pm on many a night. I am sure there are a few that have escaped, but I would never put my kid in Noyes not just because it was the epicenter of the whole Rhee cheating scandle but because it has all the issues of an inner city school with out many other real community supports. There are some realities we can't be PC about and trying to shame a poster because she tells the truth is not going to help those kids.

Anonymous wrote:In case you were wondering, Noyes is terrible. I assume that you know that and are making sure that isn't your only option. There are 2 housing projects that feed into that school and very few kids from anywhere else.

Please try to be less judgemental, it just makes you sound BAD and uninformed. Noyes is not terrible just bnecause there are students from housing projects. Please do us all a favor and leave the city if that's how you feel about children from public housing. Noyes has a great early childhood team, and some wonderful teachers in other grades. I have known many students to graduate from Noyes who are wonderful and have since graduated from Banneker and gone to some great colleges. So please take you judgements and assumptions and LEAVE DC!!

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! It looks like we are IB for both in the new boundary map as well. The boundaries meet on our street, so maybe that is why!

No, under the new boundaries, everyone is in-boundary for only one school. One side of the street likely goes to one, the other side to the other.

I would contact DCPS to see if you are in boundary for Burroighs under the new plans under consideration. That could be ok but I wouldn't go for Noyes.

In case you were wondering, Noyes is terrible. I assume that you know that and are making sure that isn't your only option. There are 2 housing projects that feed into that school and very few kids from anywhere else.

Per an older boundary map at http://dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Elementary-Grades-September-2009.pdf - there's a good chunk of Brookland that was served by Slowe Elementary School. When it closed, the area became IB for Noyes and Burroughs.

The same thing has happened throughout parts of the city when schools have closed. That's one of the reasons why, at least to some extent, something needs to be done as far as cleaning up some of the boundary issues left over from changing demographics.

Hi OP-- We're in Brookland. You're right-- for some reason some houses in the area are zoned for both Burroughs and Noyes. There is lots of momentum around Burroughs these days. Brookland is a great neighborhood. Welcome!

I think that one of the goals in the new boundaries is to ensure that everyone is in boundary for only one elementary school.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! It looks like we are IB for both in the new boundary map as well. The boundaries meet on our street, so maybe that is why!

One side of the street is probably Noyes and the other is Burroughs.

You need to live in Brookland to join the list. It's grown so big in recent years they aren't letting potential residents join. You must now live in the area.

There's a large group of PS3 and PK4 neighborhood parents working with the Principal on the future of Burroughs. If you haven't done so already, please join the Brookland Kids listserv.

Thanks! It looks like we are IB for both in the new boundary map as well. The boundaries meet on our street, so maybe that is why!

Anonymous wrote:The house we are looking at buying is assigned to Noyes and Burroughs according to dcps. Can that be right? We are closer to Noyes. Will this change? Is this like Eaton IB for both Deal and Hardy with the plan to eventually switch to Hardy? We'd like Burroughs as a fall-back plan.

If it's like our situation, they gave your address two choices because one of them is undesirable. We were in-boundary for Bruce-Monroe, which changed two years ago to both Bruce-Monroe and Powell. We're currently in-boundary for only Powell but the proposed changes switch us back to Bruce-Monroe.

It's all crazy, hard to fathom and still up in the air.

Look here for the proposed boundary changes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/proposed-elementary-school-zones/

The house we are looking at buying is assigned to Noyes and Burroughs according to dcps. Can that be right? We are closer to Noyes. Will this change? Is this like Eaton IB for both Deal and Hardy with the plan to eventually switch to Hardy? We'd like Burroughs as a fall-back plan.