I don't know exactly how the PK lottery works now at Bancroft, but the biggest change is that in bounds, affluent families are pouring into K and 1st. So many that they are adding another class for those grades. What this means is that the school, with the new building as a major pull, is now gentrifying fast. It will be a completely different place a couple years from now, not Title 1, more like an Oyster that people are clamoring to get into. OP you need not worry about extracurriculars, those will only expand as the school becomes richer. As someone who has older kids, my feelings are mixed about all this.

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Anonymous wrote:I really wish that they would stop allowing affluent families to take the PK3 seats at Bancroft. Since Bancroft is still Title I, the ECE classes are funded through Head Start. The Head Start grant provided Bancroft with most of the materials you see in those classrooms. Not to mention, all of the curriculum materials needed for the school's shift to Creative Curriculum will be covered by Head Start funds. The Head Start grant also pays for an instructional coach for the ECE teachers. Mind you, the Head Start program was designed for low income children.

Well the OOB younger siblings of Bancroft students have priority over in-bounds 3 year olds for pre-k at Bancroft. This leads to many in-bounds kids going to charters and then staying at those charter. Not sure that is ideal either.

Are you sure this is true? I thought the order of preference was IB sibling attending, IB sibling enrolled, IB, and then all of the OOB.

For most schools this is true but for dual language programs OOB siblings have priority over in-bounds who don’t have sibling preference (for PK3 and PK4- obviously N/A once you get to K since in-bounds are guaranteed). So if someone gets in OOB for K and up then he/she can pull a sibling in to PK above the in-bound students.

The priority is different for DCPS Spanish immersion school. OOB sibling has priority before IB

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Anonymous wrote:I really wish that they would stop allowing affluent families to take the PK3 seats at Bancroft. Since Bancroft is still Title I, the ECE classes are funded through Head Start. The Head Start grant provided Bancroft with most of the materials you see in those classrooms. Not to mention, all of the curriculum materials needed for the school's shift to Creative Curriculum will be covered by Head Start funds. The Head Start grant also pays for an instructional coach for the ECE teachers. Mind you, the Head Start program was designed for low income children.

Well the OOB younger siblings of Bancroft students have priority over in-bounds 3 year olds for pre-k at Bancroft. This leads to many in-bounds kids going to charters and then staying at those charter. Not sure that is ideal either.

Are you sure this is true? I thought the order of preference was IB sibling attending, IB sibling enrolled, IB, and then all of the OOB.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks so much, that’s super helpful and good to hear. It’s crazy sometimes people will get you thinking that the only way to get a good education is to go to one of a select few elementaries (Janney, Mann, murch, etc.) you’re dooming your child. At the end of the day a good and caring teacher is the end all in my book.

I assume as well you were happy with the parent community, extra-curriculars, and dual language programming? I understand they’re discussing some revisions to this programming in the near future.

They're right. The affluent parents should send their children to schools like Janney and Mann and move to ward 3. This would bring some sense of community and diversity back to gentrified neighborhoods like Shaw, Adams Morgan, Petworth, Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant.

WTF? Because I have a certain household income level I should be excluded from buying in your neighborhood? You want to go back to 20 years ago when the bullets were flying in these neighborhoods?

Anonymous wrote:DCPS should honestly think about removing Head Start funding from any Title I school that does not have at least 50% or more of preK kids who are economically disadvantaged. They should also make those schools return all materials, furnishings and supplies given to those schools through Head Start funding. If that happened all of the ECE classes at Marie Reed and Bancroft wouldn't have anything in them.

Let's be honest. If DCPS removes the materials, they are sitting in a warehouse somewhere. Your tax dollars will pay for new materials at another Title 1 and the replacement materials at the school they were removed from. Plus all the hours boxing, labeling, transporting, and sorting materials at the warehouse. Not worth the cost of them!

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Anonymous wrote:I really wish that they would stop allowing affluent families to take the PK3 seats at Bancroft. Since Bancroft is still Title I, the ECE classes are funded through Head Start. The Head Start grant provided Bancroft with most of the materials you see in those classrooms. Not to mention, all of the curriculum materials needed for the school's shift to Creative Curriculum will be covered by Head Start funds. The Head Start grant also pays for an instructional coach for the ECE teachers. Mind you, the Head Start program was designed for low income children.

Well the OOB younger siblings of Bancroft students have priority over in-bounds 3 year olds for pre-k at Bancroft. This leads to many in-bounds kids going to charters and then staying at those charter. Not sure that is ideal either.

Is that because it's dual language? I only saw the regular preference list on the website, but it mentioned it wasn't for dual language schools. What's the preference order look like for Bancroft?

Anonymous wrote:I really wish that they would stop allowing affluent families to take the PK3 seats at Bancroft. Since Bancroft is still Title I, the ECE classes are funded through Head Start. The Head Start grant provided Bancroft with most of the materials you see in those classrooms. Not to mention, all of the curriculum materials needed for the school's shift to Creative Curriculum will be covered by Head Start funds. The Head Start grant also pays for an instructional coach for the ECE teachers. Mind you, the Head Start program was designed for low income children.

Well the OOB younger siblings of Bancroft students have priority over in-bounds 3 year olds for pre-k at Bancroft. This leads to many in-bounds kids going to charters and then staying at those charter. Not sure that is ideal either.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks so much, that’s super helpful and good to hear. It’s crazy sometimes people will get you thinking that the only way to get a good education is to go to one of a select few elementaries (Janney, Mann, murch, etc.) you’re dooming your child. At the end of the day a good and caring teacher is the end all in my book.

I assume as well you were happy with the parent community, extra-curriculars, and dual language programming? I understand they’re discussing some revisions to this programming in the near future.

They're right. The affluent parents should send their children to schools like Janney and Mann and move to ward 3. This would bring some sense of community and diversity back to gentrified neighborhoods like Shaw, Adams Morgan, Petworth, Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant.

DCPS should honestly think about removing Head Start funding from any Title I school that does not have at least 50% or more of preK kids who are economically disadvantaged. They should also make those schools return all materials, furnishings and supplies given to those schools through Head Start funding. If that happened all of the ECE classes at Marie Reed and Bancroft wouldn't have anything in them.

I really wish that they would stop allowing affluent families to take the PK3 seats at Bancroft. Since Bancroft is still Title I, the ECE classes are funded through Head Start. The Head Start grant provided Bancroft with most of the materials you see in those classrooms. Not to mention, all of the curriculum materials needed for the school's shift to Creative Curriculum will be covered by Head Start funds. The Head Start grant also pays for an instructional coach for the ECE teachers. Mind you, the Head Start program was designed for low income children.

Thanks so much, that’s super helpful and good to hear. It’s crazy sometimes people will get you thinking that the only way to get a good education is to go to one of a select few elementaries (Janney, Mann, murch, etc.) you’re dooming your child. At the end of the day a good and caring teacher is the end all in my book.

I assume as well you were happy with the parent community, extra-curriculars, and dual language programming? I understand they’re discussing some revisions to this programming in the near future.

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Anonymous wrote:What have folks experience been with Bancroft for ES? For anyone who has stayed with Bancroft through Deal, have you found your child was prepared when arriving at Deal?

Yup, she's getting straight As. At Bancroft Pk3-5th.

PS for what it's worth, the PARCC scores for white kids at Bancroft are slightly above the overall scores for this group across DCPS.

Anonymous wrote:What have folks experience been with Bancroft for ES? For anyone who has stayed with Bancroft through Deal, have you found your child was prepared when arriving at Deal?

Yup, she's getting straight As. At Bancroft Pk3-5th.

What have folks experience been with Bancroft for ES? For anyone who has stayed with Bancroft through Deal, have you found your child was prepared when arriving at Deal?