I don't understand why Brent has combined 4th and 5th grade if it has 29 5th graders. Couldn't that just be one class of 5th graders?
It's amazing to me that Anacostia HS has so few students--only 244. |
Yes it is easier I believe. The charters have more financial flexibility and less capacity to handle higher-needs students. It’s also easier to get a 1:1 aid. I know a kid who went from DCPS being pushed towards self-contained to an immediate 1:1 aid in a charter. |
When did Eaton lose grandfathering rights to Deal? Was there a big shift then (and an uptick in Hardy numbers)? |
I didn't see any numbers for Bancroft. The school is bursting at the seams. I can't see the data that all of you seem to be seeing. What are the numbers for Bancroft? |
768 students this year vs 716 the prior year (~ 7% increase) |
The only notable enrollment dip at Deal -- and it was only 4.6 percent -- happened between 2020-21 and 2021-22, and that almost certainly was because of the pandemic. Removing Eaton from the Deal path did nothing to ease Deal's enrollment. |
We're at a DCPS with an underwhelming MS feeder. What I've seen most is families that move when their oldest hits middle school. So oldest stays through fifth, middle/younger stays through middle elementary assuming a 2-3 year age gap. Of the families I know that have done this, many seem to have 3 kids. Possibly because they're outgrowing their DC rowhouse anyways, or possibly because the logistics of juggling the lottery and preferences for 3 kids is too much of a hassle. Families with 1-2 kids either leave after pre-K or K depending on their lottery luck, or stay through upper elementary and try the fifth grade lottery. |
In 2022-23 there were almost as many Anacostia-zoned students at Eastern (184) as at Anacostia (188). |
I just spent some time working around the redacted PARCC numbers for our IB elementary. I was more interested in the economic disadvantage rate by grade than race by grade (it's also easier to fill in the data blanks with 2 categories vs 4+) and was pretty blown away. Jumps from 44% in 3rd to 64% in 4th to 78% in 5th. Wow. Nearby neighborhood schools we're interested in lotterying into for upper elementary looked a lot better though still with sizeable jumps in 5th. |
Do remember if it's a gentrifying school that each grade is likely also a bit more gentrified than the one before it. So the current 3rd grade might go 44->60->70 or whatever... Whereas the current 5th may have gone 50-->68-->78... if that makes sense. That is, just make sure you remember it's not the same actual kids in each grade, so gentrification trends matter in addition to grade trends. |
Students in-boundary for Tyler/Chisholm who do not want a Spanish immersion program now have boundary privileges at Payne starting in K. That might partially explain the increase in the number of students at Payne. |
Payne is also heavily gentrifying/getting more IB buy-in each year. Test data for all demographics newly available and looks excellent; will accelerate the trend just like it did at Ludlow-Taylor. I think it will be the next Hill school to follow the Brent/Maury/L-T progression. Check back in 5 years. |
They are adding one grade per year to the full Spanish program at Tyler/Chisolm so thus far it is only early childhood and therefore no mandatory school-age kids have had to choose between Spanish or not Spanish. The bump if there is one will start this coming year. I think the enrollment increase at Payne is a combination of factors: families who are enrolled are not leaving, and the school continues to open seats on lottery which allows for OOB admission as well. (Ex last year there were 20 seats open in the kindergarten lottery, in addition to all rising PK4 students, and any in bounds kinder families who wanted to enroll.) |
Thanks. Unfortunately a mix of better redaction in SY21-22 and no PARCC data SY19-20 or SY20-21 is limiting my ability to glean any additional insights. I did go back to previous year's audits for school-wide at-risk numbers and found the school went from a consistent 30-31% at risk to 36% and then 46% over the course of two years. Yikes. |
Not sure which school this is even about, and I realize this is a bit off topic, but the 'yikes' response to an increase in at risk population made me cringe. |