BASIS proposal to expand to K-4--PCSB hearing today

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If it is approved, one way that it could help is by forcing families to choose early on whether they are going the BASIS route or taking a different path. This will mean fewer kids leaving elementary schools at 4th grade so the schools won't have weird tiny/combined classes (Brent and I think Ross) or take in a bunch of new kids for 5th grade. Some kids will still leave for Latin or elementaries with preferred feeder patterns, but it could help a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school.

[Anonymous]

Just give them Jelleff already

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Anonymous wrote:Just give them Jelleff already

Foggy Bottom?

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school.

Then another sad office building it shall be.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school.

Then another sad office building it shall be.

BASIS is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm that runs mediocre charter schools to finance the debt. Seriously. The AZ Republic has written a lot about this.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school.

Then another sad office building it shall be.

BASIS is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm that runs mediocre charter schools to finance the debt. Seriously. The AZ Republic has written a lot about this.

In what sense? I thought that the DC building is owned by the DC Basis Board of Trustees, so what benefit could the for-profit part of Basis get? Yes, they get the direct payments (for admin and use of the curriculum, so that's a way they are profiting, but how does that relate to the real estate, other than very indirectly?

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school.

Then another sad office building it shall be.

BASIS is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm that runs mediocre charter schools to finance the debt. Seriously. The AZ Republic has written a lot about this.

Troll alert.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school.

Then another sad office building it shall be.

BASIS is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm that runs mediocre charter schools to finance the debt. Seriously. The AZ Republic has written a lot about this.

In what sense? I thought that the DC building is owned by the DC Basis Board of Trustees, so what benefit could the for-profit part of Basis get? Yes, they get the direct payments (for admin and use of the curriculum, so that's a way they are profiting, but how does that relate to the real estate, other than very indirectly?

Than you misunderstood the situation.

The property is owned by BASIS School Inc., a nonprofit based in Arizona that owns the properties that most of the BASIS schools around the country operate in. They have borrowed extremely heavily over the years to acquire the properties. Go read the 990s and some of the excellent reporting on this.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has. I certainly do. Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree. Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education. Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better? Nope, not better for my family. I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone. It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school. Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you. You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure. But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan!

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny. Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central. It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school.

Then another sad office building it shall be.

BASIS is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm that runs mediocre charter schools to finance the debt. Seriously. The AZ Republic has written a lot about this.

Troll alert.

Telling you to read the documents and check out the in-depth investigative reporting is... a troll?

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DP. I did review the documents and quickly saw that you are spreading false information. Basis “ is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm”? Shame on you. You are clearly a troll.

Here is the latest reporting from the Arizon Republic (which, BTW, doesn’t cover charter schools in DC):

This Arizona high school landed the top spot in national U.S. News ranking

A charter school in Peoria landed the top spot in a new ranking of the best public high schools across the nation.

BASIS Peoria was ranked first in the nation on U.S. News & World Report's 2024 rankings of best public high schools, rising from 12th place in last year's ranking.

Twelve Arizona high schools in all were included in the top 100 spots of the ranking.

They included 10 schools in the BASIS charter school network — Peoria (first), Oro Valley (24th), Scottsdale (32nd), Tucson (33rd), Ahwatukee (34th), Phoenix (45th), Mesa (56th), Prescott (75th), Chandler (84th) and Flagstaff (94th) — and two district schools: University High School in the Tucson Unified School District (81st) and University High School in the Tolleson Union High School District (83rd).

BASIS Peoria and BASIS Oro Valley were among the top five charter schools in the country, and BASIS Peoria and BASIS Chandler were among the top five STEM high schools, according to the rankings.

The 2024 rankings, which were released Tuesday, evaluated nearly 18,000 public schools across the country.

U.S. News & World Report also ranked the top schools in the metro Phoenix area. The top ten included six BASIS schools and University High School in Tolleson, along with Arizona College Prep in the Chandler Unified School District, Gilbert Classical Academy in the Gilbert Unified School District and Phoenix Union Bioscience in the Phoenix Union High School District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. I did review the documents and quickly saw that you are spreading false information. Basis “ is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm”? Shame on you. You are clearly a troll.

Here is the latest reporting from the Arizon Republic (which, BTW, doesn’t cover charter schools in DC):

This Arizona high school landed the top spot in national U.S. News ranking

A charter school in Peoria landed the top spot in a new ranking of the best public high schools across the nation.

BASIS Peoria was ranked first in the nation on U.S. News & World Report's 2024 rankings of best public high schools, rising from 12th place in last year's ranking.

Twelve Arizona high schools in all were included in the top 100 spots of the ranking.

They included 10 schools in the BASIS charter school network — Peoria (first), Oro Valley (24th), Scottsdale (32nd), Tucson (33rd), Ahwatukee (34th), Phoenix (45th), Mesa (56th), Prescott (75th), Chandler (84th) and Flagstaff (94th) — and two district schools: University High School in the Tucson Unified School District (81st) and University High School in the Tolleson Union High School District (83rd).

BASIS Peoria and BASIS Oro Valley were among the top five charter schools in the country, and BASIS Peoria and BASIS Chandler were among the top five STEM high schools, according to the rankings.

The 2024 rankings, which were released Tuesday, evaluated nearly 18,000 public schools across the country.

U.S. News & World Report also ranked the top schools in the metro Phoenix area. The top ten included six BASIS schools and University High School in Tolleson, along with Arizona College Prep in the Chandler Unified School District, Gilbert Classical Academy in the Gilbert Unified School District and Phoenix Union Bioscience in the Phoenix Union High School District.

Wait.

Of the 18,000 high schools in the United States, BASIS has 10 in the top 100 nationwide?

Seems like the BASIS network of public charter schools is doing fine.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. I did review the documents and quickly saw that you are spreading false information. Basis “ is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm”? Shame on you. You are clearly a troll.

Here is the latest reporting from the Arizon Republic (which, BTW, doesn’t cover charter schools in DC):

This Arizona high school landed the top spot in national U.S. News ranking

A charter school in Peoria landed the top spot in a new ranking of the best public high schools across the nation.

BASIS Peoria was ranked first in the nation on U.S. News & World Report's 2024 rankings of best public high schools, rising from 12th place in last year's ranking.

Twelve Arizona high schools in all were included in the top 100 spots of the ranking.

They included 10 schools in the BASIS charter school network — Peoria (first), Oro Valley (24th), Scottsdale (32nd), Tucson (33rd), Ahwatukee (34th), Phoenix (45th), Mesa (56th), Prescott (75th), Chandler (84th) and Flagstaff (94th) — and two district schools: University High School in the Tucson Unified School District (81st) and University High School in the Tolleson Union High School District (83rd).

BASIS Peoria and BASIS Oro Valley were among the top five charter schools in the country, and BASIS Peoria and BASIS Chandler were among the top five STEM high schools, according to the rankings.

The 2024 rankings, which were released Tuesday, evaluated nearly 18,000 public schools across the country.

U.S. News & World Report also ranked the top schools in the metro Phoenix area. The top ten included six BASIS schools and University High School in Tolleson, along with Arizona College Prep in the Chandler Unified School District, Gilbert Classical Academy in the Gilbert Unified School District and Phoenix Union Bioscience in the Phoenix Union High School District.

Wait.

Of the 18,000 high schools in the United States, BASIS has 10 in the top 100 nationwide?

Seems like the BASIS network of public charter schools is doing fine.

They game the rankings.

A big part of the US News formula is percentage of seniors who have passed an AP exam. US News uses that metric because at most high schools, that number reflects how well the kids learn the material.

But the BASIS system is, if you don’t pass an AP exam by junior year, you don’t become a senior. So the percent of seniors who have passed an AP exam is always 100%, at all BASIS schools. By definition. Doesn’t help any kids learn anything, and it’s not a model a true public school could ever adopt, but it sure makes the rankings look good!

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Anonymous wrote:DP. I did review the documents and quickly saw that you are spreading false information. Basis “ is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm”? Shame on you. You are clearly a troll.

Here is the latest reporting from the Arizon Republic (which, BTW, doesn’t cover charter schools in DC):

This Arizona high school landed the top spot in national U.S. News ranking

A charter school in Peoria landed the top spot in a new ranking of the best public high schools across the nation.

BASIS Peoria was ranked first in the nation on U.S. News & World Report's 2024 rankings of best public high schools, rising from 12th place in last year's ranking.

Twelve Arizona high schools in all were included in the top 100 spots of the ranking.

They included 10 schools in the BASIS charter school network — Peoria (first), Oro Valley (24th), Scottsdale (32nd), Tucson (33rd), Ahwatukee (34th), Phoenix (45th), Mesa (56th), Prescott (75th), Chandler (84th) and Flagstaff (94th) — and two district schools: University High School in the Tucson Unified School District (81st) and University High School in the Tolleson Union High School District (83rd).

BASIS Peoria and BASIS Oro Valley were among the top five charter schools in the country, and BASIS Peoria and BASIS Chandler were among the top five STEM high schools, according to the rankings.

The 2024 rankings, which were released Tuesday, evaluated nearly 18,000 public schools across the country.

U.S. News & World Report also ranked the top schools in the metro Phoenix area. The top ten included six BASIS schools and University High School in Tolleson, along with Arizona College Prep in the Chandler Unified School District, Gilbert Classical Academy in the Gilbert Unified School District and Phoenix Union Bioscience in the Phoenix Union High School District.

Wait.

Of the 18,000 high schools in the United States, BASIS has 10 in the top 100 nationwide?

Seems like the BASIS network of public charter schools is doing fine.

They game the rankings.

A big part of the US News formula is percentage of seniors who have passed an AP exam. US News uses that metric because at most high schools, that number reflects how well the kids learn the material.

But the BASIS system is, if you don’t pass an AP exam by junior year, you don’t become a senior. So the percent of seniors who have passed an AP exam is always 100%, at all BASIS schools. By definition. Doesn’t help any kids learn anything, and it’s not a model a true public school could ever adopt, but it sure makes the rankings look good!

No one is leaving in DC because they couldn't pass an AP exam. You can see the attrition from 11th to 12th grade at BASIS if you download the spreadsheet. It is basically nonexistent. There are three years of data where you can see the size of the 11th grade class and the subsequent 12th class. They lost three students in total over those three years, or an average of one student a year,.

https://edscape.dc.gov/page/student-enrollment-pathways