average attrition

[Anonymous]

Can you give me a sense of how much student turnover you've observed in your child's class cohort from year to year? I'm especially curious to hear experiences in K-5. Please name the school(s) if you're comfortable doing so, as from my armchair, I'd guess that Upper NW schools have less attrition than others. TIA.

[Anonymous]

School Within a School has incredibly low attrition -- maybe one student per class moves away or changes schools.

The leading class since expansion began is entering 4th grade in the fall. It will be interesting to see how many kids leave at the end of the year rather than stay at SWS and go to EH as the feeder middle school. On the other hand, lots (most?) of the families in that class live in-bounds for SH so maybe more will stay.

[Anonymous]

We're at Yu Ying and only know a few all due to job relocation. There are a very few kids who move to an English only school after being diagnosed with learning disabilities but if they have siblings, the sibs stay at YY. Attrition is very very low.

[Anonymous]

In our Upper NW school (Murch), we usually actually lose 3-4 kids per child's class/year. Since there are 5 classes for each of the younger grades, I'd guess that would amount to 15-20 kids per year per grade PK-K-1. That estimate may be a bit high overall, but the number of kids leaving is noticeable.

We've seen students leave for a number of reasons:

- Murch is fed by some large apartment buildings, and we've seen kids move when their parents bought houses in other areas inside/outside of the city
- A number of the foreign students are only in the U.S. for 3-5 years (embassies, World Bank/IMF, foreign service, etc.). This has been pretty consistent over the past 3 years and there are quite a few kids in this category (international or with parents who are regularly relocated)
- A few kids peel off to privates each year
- Divorce

We were just talking about this with our kids this evening - how it's sad when their friends move and how we know that some will only be around for a couple more years at most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In our Upper NW school (Murch), we usually actually lose 3-4 kids per child's class/year. Since there are 5 classes for each of the younger grades, I'd guess that would amount to 15-20 kids per year per grade PK-K-1. That estimate may be a bit high overall, but the number of kids leaving is noticeable.

We've seen students leave for a number of reasons:

- Murch is fed by some large apartment buildings, and we've seen kids move when their parents bought houses in other areas inside/outside of the city
- A number of the foreign students are only in the U.S. for 3-5 years (embassies, World Bank/IMF, foreign service, etc.). This has been pretty consistent over the past 3 years and there are quite a few kids in this category (international or with parents who are regularly relocated)
- A few kids peel off to privates each year
- Divorce

We were just talking about this with our kids this evening - how it's sad when their friends move and how we know that some will only be around for a couple more years at most.

I think that is a little high; I'd say it's more like 5-10 kids/grade/year (so, 5-10%).

The top three reasons you offer are the ones I've observed, as well. Not so much divorce; I haven't seen any kids leave Murch for that reason in the five years we've been there--in fact, the couple of families I know who've gone through divorce have kept their kids at Murch even after one parent moved to Maryland.