Seattle Schools Community Forum

Per Rachel Cassidy, the District demographer, 12% of Seattle Public School students in grades 6 to 8 living in the McClure, Whitman, Hamilton, and Eckstein attendance areas are enrolled in middle school APP. You read that right. 12% of north-end middle school students are in APP. How can this be possible? The program is intended for students in the top 2% nationally for cognitive ability and in the top 5% nationally for reading and math achievement. Sure there will be some local variations from 2%, but to be a full ten percentage points above the national mean seems a bit... much.

Someone requested a thread about talking about how middle school might now work in the NE region.  (Frankly, this will actually have a reach over to the NW where the new Wilson-Pacific will affect Whitman enrollment.  As well, a decision will have to be made on APP middle school and that will affect all regions.) Key questions (but chime in): - what is the district's plan/timeline for JA MS?  - should the new JA MS have a focus or be a solid middle school a la Eckstein? - languages? - electives? - arts? - what about APP?  My thought is that the growth seems off to me and maybe APP needs to have a stricter incoming requirement (or the bar set higher).  - basically, ALL of Advanced Learning needs an overhaul because again, their programs affect every school in the region. - what about Pinehurst? - middle school is three (short) years (honestly, it flies by).  What about high school?  Do we have room even with Lincoln coming on-line?  ...