Is your LO at Key?

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Anonymous wrote:The good private schools don't have that many openings in 6th grade. Where do all the Key students enroll?

They bail after third and fourth. An extra year of tuition is worth getting a seat.

They also bail for charters after fourth, both Latin and Basis -- which take more Hardy feeder kids than Hardy does -- start at fifth.

So there are significant number of privates that have fourth and fifth grade openings?

I'm not impressed with the charters. The test scores are the same as most low-performing non-charter DC publics EOTP.

Most schools have "admission years" where they add another class and take a bunch of kids. Usually it's for fourth or fifth grade and then again at high school. In non-admission years they only take students to replace the ones who have left. So it's much easier to get in at an admission year.

I had heard 6th grade is an admission year st many D.C. privates. At which schools is that not true?

It sounds like after PreK and K every school is different, so you have to call to find out.

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What are the chances of being accepted for key for prek if my child is inbounds?

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Anonymous wrote:The good private schools don't have that many openings in 6th grade. Where do all the Key students enroll?

They bail after third and fourth. An extra year of tuition is worth getting a seat.

They also bail for charters after fourth, both Latin and Basis -- which take more Hardy feeder kids than Hardy does -- start at fifth.

So there are significant number of privates that have fourth and fifth grade openings?

I'm not impressed with the charters. The test scores are the same as most low-performing non-charter DC publics EOTP.

Fine for you to not send your child to a charter - but you might want to educate yourself a little before making false statements.

www.learndc.org is a good resource for test scores.

Where do you think I'm getting this information? Look at the PARCC scores. Most have 30 percent or below proficiency in math and reading. Maybe YOU should educate yourself.

Latin and BASIS were the 2 charters mentioned. And their scores are significantly higher than that.

Latin middle school has 70 percent meeting or exceeding in reading (pretty good) in math they're at 53 percent (meh). Basis is 60 percent for both math and reading. You're right that it's higher than 30 percent, but I wouldn't be necessarily ecstatic to put my kid in either of those settings.

Key's reading is 72 percent too.

Deal's reading is 63 percent and math is 50 percent. Latin and BASIS are also on par with the western Montgomery County middle schools.

Thanks for proving my point. Not all MoCo schools are good. I wouldn't send my kids to the "western" ones you're referring to because of low performance and wouldn't send my kids to the DC charters for the same reasons. You can send your kids wherever you want to send them, but just be aware of the facts.