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[quote=Anonymous]BASIS writ large owns the building, so they will not, unfortunately, be moving.  But the red line access is great, and for 6th graders some neighborhoods run a bus privately.  BASIS is different - it is really a STEM school, and by 6th grade there are comps and if you fail them you can retake at the end of the summer but if you fail again, you have to either repeat the grade or leave the school.  So no social promotion, high quality motivated kids, options for serious acceleration in math immediately and science by 8th.  A ton of work for 5th graders, but it will go all the way through high school and is getting better every year.  Gives your child a good foundation if they want to go private or go to Walls for high school, but if you have a smart kid who loves learning and loves math and science there is really no other place to go IMO, and they will stay.  I have one who will be in their third graduating class and think her options for college will be unlimited.  Chain founded in AZ if you look up the ranking of their older schools they are great (two in top 5) and it ends up being a very small school.  Even the oldest schools only graduate 50 per class usually.

Latin is much harder to get into (they are both lottery) and both are one and done - meaning if your first kid gets in, your younger one is virtually guaranteed admission because of sibling preference.  Latin is much more liberal arts, you can get by with much less work, and admits kids after 6th all the way up to high school (Basis only does 5th and 6th) so you can keep trying.  Without knowing much about your kids can't help much but I would check myschools.com or greatschools or whatever and also check the descriptions on the charter board.

I think a lot of the kids now at top private schools are incredibly wealthy (I went to one and wasn't, but then you could do it for three kids on one income), and I would never want my kids to feel poor because they are surrounded by people who go to Vail over Christmas and summer in Nantucket and whose parents are at least in large part insufferably self important..........just take a look at the private school board and you will get a sense. Different crowd in private schools now I think.  Catholic schools are different.[/quote]

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