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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would bet many BASIS middle schoolers came from Hardy feeders (Key, Mann, Hearst, Stoddert) and will leave after 8th to attend their IB high school - Wilson and that was probably the plan all along. [/quote]

There's a ton of folks (like us) for whom Wilson is not an option - and [b]BASIS is far and away the best option that we have[/b].[/quote]

But will that still be true in 9th grade, with Banneker and Walls starting and ~40 OOB seats open at Wilson via lottery (plus ~13 at-risk seats)? Even if it is for you, those options have to appeal to some Basis 8th graders. The result is Basis high school will be much smaller than Basis middle.

I'm actually surprised that Basis parents expected anything else. Basis schools are designed to shrink as the students age. Why do you think they don't admit after 6th? What did you think was the point of all those high-stakes comprehensive exams? A lottery admission school has to churn through a lot of kids to get results like Basis. [/quote]

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