Although it's more "in" the park than East of it, we're in 3rd and K at Francis-Stevens, planning to stay through 8th.

OP, are you asking because you want to enroll a child in upper elementary now? Or is this a long-range thing? Really the main issue with a lot of these schools is not having a good middle school option-- that causes families to leave in 2nd-5th grades when they have the opportunity. But there are groups of parents working on Stuart-Hobson and Eliot-Hine. So for any school that feeds to those middle schools, I think things are gradually getting better for upper elementary.

Maury
Brent
Peabody
Ludlow Taylor
Shepherd
Ross

Maury for sure.

Brent.

Anonymous wrote:Shepherd
Brent
Peabody

Peabody only goes through K, then kids go to Watkins for 1st-5th; both are part of the Cluster School. Our child is in 2nd grade and we've been quite pleased. The bulk of kids have continued since PK at Peabody, and from talking with other parents, I expect them to continue.

Shepherd
Brent
Peabody

Definitely Shepherd

What do "people who can afford to move" look like?

Anonymous wrote:I can only speak to my experience with a child in K at Ludlow-Taylor. Impressed with the teaching and overall positive momentum and my bright kid is doing well. We will stay for 1st grade. Taking it year by year but so far, very pleasantly surprised.
Signed, high SES IB parent.

LT has phenomenal teachers so I would stick with LT through fifth grade at this point. I would name names but so many of the teachers are good that it would be a long list of names. Next year I understand there will be some changes to the teachers on certain grades and that will be an extra bonus as they continue to improve what is already working well.

Brent and Maury

OP, I've been saying this for a while. Many if not most of the high SES families whose children go to DCPS are younger than first grade.

For example, my daughter is 5. When she was 3, there were still separate lotteries for DCPS and charters. Before then, it was different. It was still possible to get into some WOTP schools. There weren't waitlists of in-bounds kids. Spots were not immediately sucked up by siblings. Now, it's different. The baby boom kids my daughter's age and younger are entering school. Their parents post here, a lot. They are the ones whose opinions are going to come through loud and clear.

Many if not most DCPS EOTP do not have high populations of higher SES kids in the elementary grades, because historically, people with means leave for the "better" school districts (who face their own challenges now as a result).

I'm diving with you OP.

I can only speak to my experience with a child in K at Ludlow-Taylor. Impressed with the teaching and overall positive momentum and my bright kid is doing well. We will stay for 1st grade. Taking it year by year but so far, very pleasantly surprised.
Signed, high SES IB parent.

Other than Ross (of course). Do most people who can afford to move move after K?