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[quote=Anonymous]+1.  The uncertaintly inherent in the search for majority high SES schools goes up the chain of course, hurting the Hill.  We're in 3rd grade at Brent already quietly looking at privates and suburban middle schools because we have no idea if Basis or Latin will work out for us.

I'm not impressed that Latin's high school is only around 1/3 as white/high SES as its middle school and expect similar demographics at Basis' future high school.

Kids make friends in middle school and tend to want to stay with them for high school.  We'd rather not ask our shy older child to make a new set of friends somewhere between 8th and 12th grades because the upper grades at Basis or Latin are overwhelmingly low SES and, hence, very unlikely to provide the challenge and upbeat social environment we need.   For the Basis boosters who claim that the school will be different than Latin, retaining most high SES families who start in 5th and 6th, why should we believe you?

[i]If we knew that we had a majority high SES ES + MS + HS sequence, we'd be feeling a lot more confident about staying on the Hill than we are.  We know dozens of local families who probably feel the same way.[/i]

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