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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are, at most, two students from Nysmith students getting into 9th grade at Sidwell in any given year...[/quote]

TJ hasn’t been reporting admissions data for private middle schools recently (but there is helpful a breakdown of NoVA public middle school data for the past five years available here: ). The last reporting I can find for Nysmith admissions stats at TJ is for the class of 2020.  And these numbers are impressive: 23 applied, 21 were semifinalists and 13 were admitted. Here’s the link: http://www.fcag.org/documents/TJ+Class+of+2020+Admissions.pdf

So for Nysmith  that’s a whopping 56.5% of applicants and 61.9% of semifinalists earning a TJ admission.  That  puts Nysmith (which will cost parents &gt;$30k/year vs. zero at FCPS) at the top of the pile compared to the public middle schools (and no private seems to come close to Nysmith in the class of 2020 stats):

Carson: 264 applied, 189 semifinalists, 98 admits (37.1% of applicants and 51.9% of semifinalists admitted)
Kilmer: 132 applied, 84 semis, 24 admits (18.1% of applicants and 28.6% of semifinalists admitted)
Twain: 85 applied, 27 semis, 11 admits (12.9% of applicants and 40.7% of semifinalists admitted)
Rocky Run: 155 applied, 113 semis, 37 admits (23.9% of applicants and 32.7% of semifinalists admitted)
Frost: 102 applied, 58 semis, 22 admits (21.5% of applicants and 37.9% of semifinalists admitted)
Longfellow:155 applied, 120 semis, 45 admits (29.0% of applicants and 37.5% of semifinalists admitted)

Obviously Nysmith has a small applicant pool (with 8th grade classes probably ranging from 35-45 students/year) and that pool is economically tilted toward the “1-10%.” Anecdotally, what TJ is not doing is converting a high % of Nysmith grads because many of them go to privates (in unscientific descending order: Flint Hill, Potomac, DC Big 3s, Basis and a few others, including 2-4 to mostly New England boarding schools).

As for Sidwell, I doubt anyone in admissions there thinks of Nysmith as a feeder like a Norwood or St. Pats, but maybe to a lesser extent view it as a “NoVA feeder” because it seems likely that  they’re sending more students to Sidwell than any other NoVA school. But saying that “at most” two Nysmith students are admitted per 9th grade class at Sidwell seems inaccurate, maybe more like the number of conversions vs admits. 
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