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No, Latin & Deal are not continuing to suffer.  Latin is on, what, its second graduating class and already has kids going into Ivies.  They're doing it without flushing 2/3 of the students who enter, which is to their credit.  Basis looks more and more like an enrichment scheme for its owners, and not an education institution that merits tax dollars.  Apparently you can have high standards, and still find an alternate path for students who are not in the top 10%.  I'm looking forward to the PCSB re-tooling Basis, which is what needs to happen if they're going to continue to receive public money for public education.[/quote]

Where are you getting your 2/3 number, PP?

Also, PP, have you considered what the Latin re-enrollment rates imply?

The Latin middle school has a re-enrollment rate of 90.3%.  The Latin upper school has a re-enrollment rate of 92.1%.  These numbers come from PCSB reports: [url]http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/data/files/2013_Applications/DC-PCSB-PMF_Mar18-web.pdf[/url]

So, if we start with a cohort of 100 Latin 5th graders, about 90.3 of those re-enroll for 6th grade, about 81.5 re-enroll for 7th grade, and about 73.6 re-enroll for 8th grade, and about 66.5 re-enroll for 9.  Then about , about 61.2  re-enroll for 10th, about 56.4 re-enroll for 11th, and about 51.9 re-enroll for 12th.

I note that no one complains that Latin "counsels out" 1/2 of its entering 5th graders by 12th grade.

Of course, it's possible that the re-enrollment rate for long-time students is higher than for recently-admitted students, but it is not possible to derive the re-enrollment rate for long-time students this from the PCSB data. Furthermore, since Latin stops admitting kids after 9th grade, if long-time student re-enroll at significantly higher rates, we would expect the upper school re-enrollment rate to be significantly higher than the middle school rate, but it is less that 2% higher.

Now let's consider your 2/3 number.  What would the re-enrollment rate of a school have to be for it to lose 2/3 of it 5th graders by 12th grade?  Well, it turns out that a re-enrollment rate of 85.4% results in 2/3 of a cohort of entering 5th grades to be gone by 12th grade.  If 100 enter 5th, about 85.4 will re-enroll for 6th,  about 72.9 for 7th, about 62.3 for 8th, about 53.2 for 9th, about 45.4 for 10th, about 38.8 for 11th and finally about 33.1% will re-enroll for 12th.

What's interesting is that a re-enrollment rate of 85.4% is actually pretty darn good for a DC charter school.

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