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[quote=Anonymous]Dose of realism here — DC attended a top K-8 that several of you think you’ll be able to pretty easily “use” beginning in 6th, reasoning that you heard there’s some annual exodus of middle schoolers. Do not count on a bounty of open spots that you can “use.”

In the entire time the kids were at our k-8, there were never more than 3 attrition spots in a given year, and frequently only 2.  There was real competition for those openings from parents of every rising 6th grader in an abysmal Hill MS, plus lots of families who weren’t enthusiastic about Hardy, Wells amd even Deal (too big).

The same is going to be true at the other actually good independent K-8s.  There isn’t _actually_ a regional opening up of MS spots at independents because the schools they want to switch TO are ultra competitive.

It’s not a “lid for every pot” scenario in my recent experience, where everyone shuffles around to new schools and there are spots for everyone coming and going. In fact, a lot of K-8 rising 6th graders remain stuck in their existing schools and do not create openings in the way DCUM imagines. [/quote]

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