2023 Niche results: Basis McLean #1 in VA in 3 categories: best private HS in VA, best college prep…

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Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Awesome! That is net growth of 100-150.

The school is booming.

Folks are recognizing that is BIM is one of the best in the area! #1 in VA!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Awesome! That is net growth of 100-150.

The school is booming.

Folks are recognizing that is BIM is one of the best in the area! #1 in VA!

Here comes the weekly BASIS marketing team folks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Awesome! That is net growth of 100-150.

The school is booming.

Folks are recognizing that is BIM is one of the best in the area! #1 in VA!

Yes, the Lacrosse program is top notch and the campus is lovely with all the fields.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Awesome! That is net growth of 100-150.

The school is booming.

Folks are recognizing that is BIM is one of the best in the area! #1 in VA!

Yes, the Lacrosse program is top notch and the campus is lovely with all the fields.

Who wouldn't want a school with manic, abusive parents and marketing shills backing up that robust radio ad program and rolling admissions scheme?

All that screams quality.

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I would quit my job and move to home schooling before I would permit my child to attend BASIS in McLean. Other BaSIS sites maybe, but not McLean, despite the heavy marketing here by that site.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Awesome! That is net growth of 100-150.

The school is booming.

Folks are recognizing that is BIM is one of the best in the area! #1 in VA!

We love it! ❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Awesome! That is net growth of 100-150.

The school is booming.

Folks are recognizing that is BIM is one of the best in the area! #1 in VA!

We love it! ❤️

Yes, it is a great school,

-another happy BIM parent

[Anonymous]

How fetch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How fetch.

Exactly. Gretchen, stop making Niche a thing as it is hardly a metric of how good a school is. Do you even know the methodology the website uses to arrive at their rankings? Is it all hard data such as graduation rates, placement at colleges/universities, attrition rates, etc.? Or is the data mostly crowd-sourced and, therefore, likely biased?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How fetch.

Exactly. Gretchen, stop making Niche a thing as it is hardly a metric of how good a school is. Do you even know the methodology the website uses to arrive at their rankings? Is it all hard data such as graduation rates, placement at colleges/universities, attrition rates, etc.? Or is the data mostly crowd-sourced and, therefore, likely biased?

How fetch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow—congrats to Basis!!!!

I’m sure that DCUM will join in to sing the school’s praises.

Cram school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Awesome! That is net growth of 100-150.

The school is booming.

Folks are recognizing that is BIM is one of the best in the area! #1 in VA!

We love it! ❤️

Yes, it is a great school,

-another happy BIM parent

Seconded.

[Anonymous]

Ok, former Basis parent here.

Academics at school are good. Good teachers and they expect a lot. Definitely focused on high academic performers.

Outside of that, DS was depressed there. He did well academically. However it being an office building in an office park area, kinda depressing. No real sports program or campus to enjoy. Very little social interaction as a community outside some academic areas. Teacher turnover major problem with school.

Basically, kind of a depressing place if your kids wants to have a good education and balance it with a fun social experience as well. It was not the right place for my kid. It may be for other children. We are now at a Big 5 school where academics are great and he loves the campus and overall experience there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, former Basis parent here.

Academics at school are good. Good teachers and they expect a lot. Definitely focused on high academic performers.

Outside of that, DS was depressed there. He did well academically. However it being an office building in an office park area, kinda depressing. No real sports program or campus to enjoy. Very little social interaction as a community outside some academic areas. Teacher turnover major problem with school.

Basically, kind of a depressing place if your kids wants to have a good education and balance it with a fun social experience as well. It was not the right place for my kid. It may be for other children. We are now at a Big 5 school where academics are great and he loves the campus and overall experience there.

Very accurate description. The younger students don't notice the limitations much, but they really start to matter around grade 8 and above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, former Basis parent here.

Academics at school are good. Good teachers and they expect a lot. Definitely focused on high academic performers.

Outside of that, DS was depressed there. He did well academically. However it being an office building in an office park area, kinda depressing. No real sports program or campus to enjoy. Very little social interaction as a community outside some academic areas. Teacher turnover major problem with school.

Basically, kind of a depressing place if your kids wants to have a good education and balance it with a fun social experience as well. It was not the right place for my kid. It may be for other children. We are now at a Big 5 school where academics are great and he loves the campus and overall experience there.

lol @ “Big 5”