Best Charter High School

[Anonymous]

It’s both a DCI issue and IB issue that families should know about before deciding on a high school. The DCI counselors don’t even encourage juniors to take the two Standard Level IB exams Geneva IB allows to be taken after 11th grade. DCI can’t turn parents down if they push for their kids to take the early exams. More families demand this right every year as word spreads of the option. Ridiculous that DCI admins aren’t on top of basic IB policies. Maybe things will change as more clued-in parents come up the feeder chain.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS DC is ranked the number one charter high school in the DC area.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/search?state-urlname=district-of-columbia&charter=true

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-charter-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

Somebody posts this on every charter HS or BASIS thread. Yea, guy, we know. We also know that BASIS admitted 135 5th graders eight years ago but only 42 are left in the senior glass. If the school were really fantastic, two-thirds of the students wouldn't bail along the way.

DP. BASIS is 100% lottery and doesn’t backfill. Kids leave for various reasons and only those who can keep up stay. That makes it unique in DC and explains the numbers.

BASIS is not unique wrt its backfilling policy.

In DC? Of course it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS DC is ranked the number one charter high school in the DC area.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/search?state-urlname=district-of-columbia&charter=true

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-charter-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

Wow!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s both a DCI issue and IB issue that families should know about before deciding on a high school. The DCI counselors don’t even encourage juniors to take the two Standard Level IB exams Geneva IB allows to be taken after 11th grade. DCI can’t turn parents down if they push for their kids to take the early exams. More families demand this right every year as word spreads of the option. Ridiculous that DCI admins aren’t on top of basic IB policies. Maybe things will change as more clued-in parents come up the feeder chain.[/quote|

This. When parents come here to rave about DCI and IBD, think twice. There’s still an amateur hour feel to the school, which isn’t run by IB experts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS DC is ranked the number one charter high school in the DC area.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/search?state-urlname=district-of-columbia&charter=true

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-charter-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

Wow!

. Wow! Wow! Wow! Best high school in the area! Who needs decent ECs or outdoor space? That stuff is stupid.

[Anonymous]

Latin is obviously the best hands down, unless your kid is a math whiz who isn't prone to claustrophobia, so can handle the bad BASIS building.

Problem is the odds of being admitted to Latin are bad in every grade. Without an older sibling to pull your kid in, your chances are miniscule.

[Anonymous]

Truth hasn't had a graduating class yet, but I wonder where it will fall when it does. So far their report card score is significantly higher than DCI's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Back to OP's question, it seems safe to assume that the best charter high school isn't DCI. Wow, just wow.

Yes, yes, yes. DCI isn’t good. Don’t put it down on your lottery list so we have a better shot!

No worries there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rich families in DC send their kids to private school. Poor families move. Poor families who cannot afford to move need to take advantage of special programs within DC (usually targeted to black and brown families) to get a leg up. If you are somehow to poor to move but also white (a demographic that according to DCUM, doesn't really exist), you are doomed.

Such an odd claim. DS spent a lot of time at giant beach houses belonging to friends from JR when he was there. Our HHI is $500 K, and DS was the least well off of his immediate friend group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Truth hasn't had a graduating class yet, but I wonder where it will fall when it does. So far their report card score is significantly higher than DCI's.

Uhm, I wouldn't count on it challenging the big three given that they can't seem to hold on to any teachers for a full year.

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Anonymous wrote:Truth hasn't had a graduating class yet, but I wonder where it will fall when it does. So far their report card score is significantly higher than DCI's.

Uhm, I wouldn't count on it challenging the big three given that they can't seem to hold on to any teachers for a full year.

(Parent of a Truth grade 8 MS student) That isn't true- they have a fairly decent teacher retention rate in comparison with other schools. To be fair, they started in 2020 with 25 students and now they have over 200 students. Why are some DCUM people so intent on spreading lies and wish ill on schools that there kids don't even attend?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rich families in DC send their kids to private school. Poor families move. Poor families who cannot afford to move need to take advantage of special programs within DC (usually targeted to black and brown families) to get a leg up. If you are somehow to poor to move but also white (a demographic that according to DCUM, doesn't really exist), you are doomed.

Such an odd claim. DS spent a lot of time at giant beach houses belonging to friends from JR when he was there. Our HHI is $500 K, and DS was the least well off of his immediate friend group.

+1. We are at a charter, have a beach house, multiple other investment properties, and high net worth. Lots of UMC and well off families at our school.

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Charter here. We are pretty successful, as are most of our children’s friends’ families.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich families in DC send their kids to private school. Poor families move. Poor families who cannot afford to move need to take advantage of special programs within DC (usually targeted to black and brown families) to get a leg up. If you are somehow to poor to move but also white (a demographic that according to DCUM, doesn't really exist), you are doomed.

Such an odd claim. DS spent a lot of time at giant beach houses belonging to friends from JR when he was there. Our HHI is $500 K, and DS was the least well off of his immediate friend group.

If you have spent time in the private school world, you know that there is an entire level of wealth that does not exist in publics. At GDS, the median household income is $1 million per year, and there are many families that are well beyond that.

Past a certain threshold of wealth, families just dont do public. I mean, I'm happy that everyone feels successful and has beach houses. But there is another level out there.

-former private school teacher with kids in DCPS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rich families in DC send their kids to private school. Poor families move. Poor families who cannot afford to move need to take advantage of special programs within DC (usually targeted to black and brown families) to get a leg up. If you are somehow to poor to move but also white (a demographic that according to DCUM, doesn't really exist), you are doomed.

Such an odd claim. DS spent a lot of time at giant beach houses belonging to friends from JR when he was there. Our HHI is $500 K, and DS was the least well off of his immediate friend group.

If you have spent time in the private school world, you know that there is an entire level of wealth that does not exist in publics. At GDS, the median household income is $1 million per year, and there are many families that are well beyond that.

Past a certain threshold of wealth, families just dont do public. I mean, I'm happy that everyone feels successful and has beach houses. But there is another level out there.

-former private school teacher with kids in DCPS

Sure but wealth means more than the top .1% of families. Families in the top 10% in the DC are also wealthy.

I like the fact that my kid is not growing up in a bubble of ultra wealth, privilege, and entitlement in addition to a homogenous crowd.

We do fine without the above, don’t feel any need to keep up with the Jones. The sign that reveals we have some money is our travel plans which is a high priority for us. The beach house we keep on the down low.