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Anonymous wrote:Which DCPSes are way up or down?

Ludlow-Taylor is up 55 kids year on year!

Is this a good thing? Where are they going to put 55 more students?

I mean, given that the kids have now been at the school for nearly the entire year, I'm guessing that was sorted out awhile ago.

I think a big population increase is a good sign for most IB DCPSes, because it tends to mean IB buy-in was higher than expected. Whether or not that creates an uncomfortably full school for a year, it's a good sign at any school and not a long-term problem at a school that still has substantial room to decrease OOB spots (it's ~60% IB). In Ludlow's case, they sort of screwed up the 5th grade waitlist management by underestimating the number of students who would return (bad lottery year and increased interest in SH combo) and had to open a 3rd 5th grade classroom. That is not the plan for next year, so I'd expect a slight enrollment drop (although perhaps that will be balanced out by the overall upwards trend across grades). Ludlow is also getting an extension of 4 additional classrooms with construction starting this summer, so there will be additional room.

Interesting to me that MacFarland is down. I know that when schools are new there is often a period of attendance growth that then often is followed by a decline that accompanies that loss of novelty.

I think the school has near peer competitors close by like Haynes or CHEC or Cap City or Wells or even Paul and ones that neighbors consider better not far away like Latin so I can see MacFarland getting gnawed on from all sides.

That said I still think it’s going to be a community asset long term.

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Anonymous wrote:Gentrification Watch! Schools with a low percentage of white students that saw a notable increase in the number of white students:

Amidon-Bowen 40->51

Barnard 44->60

Bunker Hill 14->27

Burroughs 50->79

Eliot-Hine 37->57

JO Wilson 39->49

LaSalle-Backus 5->13

Seaton 72->82

Shepherd 99->114

Stuart-Hobson 59->78

Tyler 99->117

Wheatley 7->16

Whittier 38->50

Curious about if there are any schools where that % persists through 4th or 5th grade. I’m too tired to dig in the data myself but my unscientific study (using my eyes) at one of the schools on that list where I have a (white) rising 3rd grader and we are bailing next year for a Hardy feeder says PK3/PK4 classes are half white, 4th and 5th grade classes have 1-2 non Black kids max. I don’t think the school is unique in that.

that was the pattern at our EH feeder, but it changed significantly as more people started to choose EH. The 5th grade still loses a lot of kids but the demographics are overall more balanced than they were 10 yrs ago.

NP and our child is in K at one of those schools listed and the description above is acurate. The racial diversity diminishes in 3-5th grades. But PreK-1 have a large proportion of white students.

+1. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that this is true across the board at poorly performing schools.

The achievement gap gets real in 1st and up and it’s not all rose colored glasses like it is in ECE.

If you want to know about race by year, you can look at the PARCC data -- the total counts, not the scores. For some schools it will be redacted but you can usually piece something together.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Gentrification Watch! Schools with a low percentage of white students that saw a notable increase in the number of white students:

Amidon-Bowen 40->51

Barnard 44->60

Bunker Hill 14->27

Burroughs 50->79

Eliot-Hine 37->57

JO Wilson 39->49

LaSalle-Backus 5->13

Seaton 72->82

Shepherd 99->114

Stuart-Hobson 59->78

Tyler 99->117

Wheatley 7->16

Whittier 38->50

Curious about if there are any schools where that % persists through 4th or 5th grade. I’m too tired to dig in the data myself but my unscientific study (using my eyes) at one of the schools on that list where I have a (white) rising 3rd grader and we are bailing next year for a Hardy feeder says PK3/PK4 classes are half white, 4th and 5th grade classes have 1-2 non Black kids max. I don’t think the school is unique in that.

that was the pattern at our EH feeder, but it changed significantly as more people started to choose EH. The 5th grade still loses a lot of kids but the demographics are overall more balanced than they were 10 yrs ago.

NP and our child is in K at one of those schools listed and the description above is acurate. The racial diversity diminishes in 3-5th grades. But PreK-1 have a large proportion of white students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gentrification Watch! Schools with a low percentage of white students that saw a notable increase in the number of white students:

Amidon-Bowen 40->51

Barnard 44->60

Bunker Hill 14->27

Burroughs 50->79

Eliot-Hine 37->57

JO Wilson 39->49

LaSalle-Backus 5->13

Seaton 72->82

Shepherd 99->114

Stuart-Hobson 59->78

Tyler 99->117

Wheatley 7->16

Whittier 38->50

Curious about if there are any schools where that % persists through 4th or 5th grade. I’m too tired to dig in the data myself but my unscientific study (using my eyes) at one of the schools on that list where I have a (white) rising 3rd grader and we are bailing next year for a Hardy feeder says PK3/PK4 classes are half white, 4th and 5th grade classes have 1-2 non Black kids max. I don’t think the school is unique in that.

that was the pattern at our EH feeder, but it changed significantly as more people started to choose EH. The 5th grade still loses a lot of kids but the demographics are overall more balanced than they were 10 yrs ago.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which DCPSes are way up or down?

Ludlow-Taylor is up 55 kids year on year!

Is this a good thing? Where are they going to put 55 more students?

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the folks getting last year’s numbers to compare?

Same website. OSSE enrollment

Can also go to Schooldigger where you can pull up the data for each school from 1988 through last year to see the longer-term trends.

schooldigger isn't a thing

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the folks getting last year’s numbers to compare?

Same website. OSSE enrollment

Can also go to Schooldigger where you can pull up the data for each school from 1988 through last year to see the longer-term trends.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gentrification Watch! Schools with a low percentage of white students that saw a notable increase in the number of white students:

Amidon-Bowen 40->51

Barnard 44->60

Bunker Hill 14->27

Burroughs 50->79

Eliot-Hine 37->57

JO Wilson 39->49

LaSalle-Backus 5->13

Seaton 72->82

Shepherd 99->114

Stuart-Hobson 59->78

Tyler 99->117

Wheatley 7->16

Whittier 38->50

Curious about if there are any schools where that % persists through 4th or 5th grade. I’m too tired to dig in the data myself but my unscientific study (using my eyes) at one of the schools on that list where I have a (white) rising 3rd grader and we are bailing next year for a Hardy feeder says PK3/PK4 classes are half white, 4th and 5th grade classes have 1-2 non Black kids max. I don’t think the school is unique in that.

I don't think you can see this in the data. It looks like there's a table by race and a table by grade level but not a table by race and grade level.

Anonymous wrote:Where are the folks getting last year’s numbers to compare?

Same website. OSSE enrollment

^^ Not the totals, but the racial/ethnic breakdown.

Where are the folks getting last year’s numbers to compare?

Anonymous wrote:Gentrification Watch! Schools with a low percentage of white students that saw a notable increase in the number of white students:

Amidon-Bowen 40->51

Barnard 44->60

Bunker Hill 14->27

Burroughs 50->79

Eliot-Hine 37->57

JO Wilson 39->49

LaSalle-Backus 5->13

Seaton 72->82

Shepherd 99->114

Stuart-Hobson 59->78

Tyler 99->117

Wheatley 7->16

Whittier 38->50

Curious about if there are any schools where that % persists through 4th or 5th grade. I’m too tired to dig in the data myself but my unscientific study (using my eyes) at one of the schools on that list where I have a (white) rising 3rd grader and we are bailing next year for a Hardy feeder says PK3/PK4 classes are half white, 4th and 5th grade classes have 1-2 non Black kids max. I don’t think the school is unique in that.

My one take away is that tyler is HUGE for a DC elementary school