Anonymous
03/27/2025 14:50
Subject: Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Schools that have more than 50 students each who are black, white, and latino:
Elementary:
Barnard
Bruce-Monroe
DC Bilingual
EL Haynes (elementary only)
Eaton
EW Stokes (Brookland only)
Garrison
Hyde-Addison
John Lewis
Lafayette
LAMB
Marie Reed
Maury
Mundo Verde (both campuses)
Murch
Powell
Seaton
Shirley Chisholm
Takoma
Whittier
Yu Ying
Middle/High/Adult:
BASIS
Banneker
Carlos Rosario
Deal
DCI
Ellington
Hardy
Jackson-Reed
MacArthur
School Without Walls
Washington Latin (not Cooper)
ES and later grades:
Creative Minds
Inspired Teaching
John Francis
LEARN DC (currently elementary only; growing to 8th)
Remember when those Miner parents kept saying that Maury parents didn’t want to merge because they hated diversity? LOL! Maury’s actually diverse.
Anonymous
03/27/2025 14:49
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:I'm looking at the enrollment at Deal feeder Schools. I knew all the white people in upper NW started dipping out to private in middle/ high school -- but 50%? is that true?
Bancroft, Hearst, Janney, Lafayette, Murch, Shepherd -- across all 6 schools there is an enrollment of 3869 and yet deals total enrollment is 1462... where did the other 2400 go?!
It's even more shocking when you break it down by race... there are currently 2041 white students across those 5 schools and only 706 white students at deal. Once you get to JR -- the enrollment increases by 400 (1855), but none of them are white students (enrollment actually decreases from Deal to 674)
Elementary schools have 6 or 7 grades. Middle school has 3.
Anonymous
03/27/2025 14:47
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
I'm looking at the enrollment at Deal feeder Schools. I knew all the white people in upper NW started dipping out to private in middle/ high school -- but 50%? is that true?
Bancroft, Hearst, Janney, Lafayette, Murch, Shepherd -- across all 6 schools there is an enrollment of 3869 and yet deals total enrollment is 1462... where did the other 2400 go?!
It's even more shocking when you break it down by race... there are currently 2041 white students across those 5 schools and only 706 white students at deal. Once you get to JR -- the enrollment increases by 400 (1855), but none of them are white students (enrollment actually decreases from Deal to 674)
Bancroft, Hearst, Janney, Lafayette, Murch, Shepherd -- across all 6 schools there is an enrollment of 3869 and yet deals total enrollment is 1462... where did the other 2400 go?!
It's even more shocking when you break it down by race... there are currently 2041 white students across those 5 schools and only 706 white students at deal. Once you get to JR -- the enrollment increases by 400 (1855), but none of them are white students (enrollment actually decreases from Deal to 674)
Anonymous
03/27/2025 08:31
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS DC is getting more Asian.
Asian students
BASIS DC 7.2%
Walls 5.1%
DCI 2.8%
Latin MS 2.6%
Latin HS 2.5%
Latin Cooper 2.1%
I mean... it makes sense. It's the only public middle school in DC that offers real advanced coursework. I'm Asian and my kids are half-asian and the oldest is now at BASIS and we like it. Other Asian people we know are in the burbs or in privates.
That’s such a strange thing to say. Like all Asians want or need ‘advanced’ coursework.
Where did PP say “all”?
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/americas-highest-achieving-students-are-disproportionately-asian-lets-not-be
Anonymous
03/26/2025 21:50
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS DC is getting more Asian.
Asian students
BASIS DC 7.2%
Walls 5.1%
DCI 2.8%
Latin MS 2.6%
Latin HS 2.5%
Latin Cooper 2.1%
Yeah, we’re an Asian family and had no interest in Basis for our middle schooler.
I mean... it makes sense. It's the only public middle school in DC that offers real advanced coursework. I'm Asian and my kids are half-asian and the oldest is now at BASIS and we like it. Other Asian people we know are in the burbs or in privates.
That’s such a strange thing to say. Like all Asians want or need ‘advanced’ coursework.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 21:08
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS DC is getting more Asian.
Asian students
BASIS DC 7.2%
Walls 5.1%
DCI 2.8%
Latin MS 2.6%
Latin HS 2.5%
Latin Cooper 2.1%
I mean... it makes sense. It's the only public middle school in DC that offers real advanced coursework. I'm Asian and my kids are half-asian and the oldest is now at BASIS and we like it. Other Asian people we know are in the burbs or in privates.
That’s such a strange thing to say. Like all Asians want or need ‘advanced’ coursework.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 19:11
Subject: Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see the demographic shifts in Hill schools over time. Had no idea Maury had a solid Hispanic population now. Payne now more white than Peabody/Watkins. L-T newly majority white. SWS now majority non-white. Still extremely few Asians at any Hill DCPS.
Wow. Isn’t that an extremely abrupt change for SWS? I had been under the (mistaken?) impression that they were very white only a few years ago. I don’t think people on this forum would have believed you 3 years ago if you said Ludlow would be whiter than SWS in the near future.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 13:21
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS DC is getting more Asian.
Asian students
BASIS DC 7.2%
Walls 5.1%
DCI 2.8%
Latin MS 2.6%
Latin HS 2.5%
Latin Cooper 2.1%
I mean... it makes sense. It's the only public middle school in DC that offers real advanced coursework. I'm Asian and my kids are half-asian and the oldest is now at BASIS and we like it. Other Asian people we know are in the burbs or in privates.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 13:13
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS DC is getting more Asian.
Asian students
BASIS DC 7.2%
Walls 5.1%
DCI 2.8%
Latin MS 2.6%
Latin HS 2.5%
Latin Cooper 2.1%
Asian population is DC is only about 3%
Anonymous
03/26/2025 13:12
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Interesting that BASIS DC is getting more Asian.
Asian students
BASIS DC 7.2%
Walls 5.1%
DCI 2.8%
Latin MS 2.6%
Latin HS 2.5%
Latin Cooper 2.1%
Asian students
BASIS DC 7.2%
Walls 5.1%
DCI 2.8%
Latin MS 2.6%
Latin HS 2.5%
Latin Cooper 2.1%
Anonymous
03/26/2025 10:43
Subject: Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:29 Ellington students are tuition-paying non-residents; no other school has more than 2.
Schools with more than 10 unverified resident students:
Columbia Heights Education Campus
Jackson-Reed High School
Eastern High School
LEARN DC PCS
Randle Highlands Elementary School
Payne Elementary School
Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys PCS
Stoddert Elementary School
Stoddert is usually embassy families
Anonymous
03/25/2025 21:50
Subject: Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tubman is in a swing space while they undergo renovations so the enrollment is not surprising.
They are also the first school for which the “hold harmless” provision no longer applies because of projected budget cuts. They are losing $1.2 million and 12 positions for their final year in the swing space.
Oof. It’s a really tricky case. 12 people & over a million is just way too many extra people/extra money to give away in these budget times. On the other hand, if people do return once Tubman is reopened, it’s unfair to them to make them hire so many new staff. It would seem like there should be some 1 year “lending” program or something that Tubman teachers could opt into to guarantee they could return to Tubman next year.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 21:49
Subject: Enrollment data is up
Shining Stars numbers are really alarming. They are only fully enrolled in PK3-K, the numbers from 1-6 are low even by Montessori standards
Anonymous
03/25/2025 20:20
Subject: Re:Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:I think the Coolidge drop was intentional to take less out of bounds kids due to overcrowding.
It was. They talked about it in the boundary discussions last year and limiting OOB enrollment.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 20:14
Subject: Enrollment data is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Schools that have more than 50 students each who are black, white, and latino:
Elementary:
Barnard
Bruce-Monroe
DC Bilingual
EL Haynes (elementary only)
Eaton
EW Stokes (Brookland only)
Garrison
Hyde-Addison
John Lewis
Lafayette
LAMB
Marie Reed
Maury
Mundo Verde (both campuses)
Murch
Powell
Seaton
Shirley Chisholm
Takoma
Whittier
Yu Ying
Middle/High/Adult:
BASIS
Banneker
Carlos Rosario
Deal
DCI
Ellington
Hardy
Jackson-Reed
MacArthur
School Without Walls
Washington Latin (not Cooper)
ES and later grades:
Creative Minds
Inspired Teaching
John Francis
LEARN DC (currently elementary only; growing to 8th)
Interesting. Add the criteria of at least 50 Asian students and it shrinks to just six: Deal, J-R, BASIS, Murch, John Francis, and Yu Ying.
DCPS has a real chance to build on Francis' success with the new Euclid middle school. Keeping the 6 feeder elementary schools together for MS would make a middle school that's big, diverse, and relatively high-performing. Given its central location, I think some people would choose it over Hardy or an Eastern feeder, especially if they felt optimistic about their chances in the HS lottery or planned to go private/move.
That would be a huge change for Francis and I doubt Francis families would support it. I think the new Euclid middle has a good chance to succeed with the three feeders DCPS is planning for.
I'm worried about Euclid succeeding as planned, tbh. With just three schools, its just not big enough, and is not going to have a big enough cohort of high achievers to warrant advanced classes. Even Francis doesn't have advanced classes. But if they were combined into one school, it could totally happen.
Three schools is fine for S-H and EH though.
Cleveland, Garrison, and Seaton is really 2.5 schools because the dual-language kids at Cleveland have programmatic feeder rights to MacFarland.
And Ross is so much smaller than the other schools that sending all of them to Euclid would still not make a Deal-sized school. It would likely be the size of SH or EH.
Tubman would be a natural feeder. It’s not that far away and feeds to a dual language middle school, even though it’s not itself dual language. It would also make sense to send the English track from Marie Reed.