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[quote=Anonymous]If you look at the "top rated" BASIS schools in AZ, they tend to graduate at most 50 students - 25 after 11th who go straight to college, and 25 who stay for a senior year where only the first trimester is academic (class - based).  The kids then go on to do senior projects which interest them that are pass fail.  Sounds like senior paradise to me.

But they expect at least a 40% attrition between 8th and 9th (called the "year of decision") for kids who want more or different opportunities than BASIS schools can offer.

The most resounding endorsements we have gotten on this board so far come from BASIS DC kids who have gotten into top privates after doing well in BASIS DC MS.  To be able to save that money, to know that your kid if he does well will be admitted to a private school at an admission point where they are only looking for kids who will up their college admission stats, in a place with very little public middle school choice, I would say that in and of itself is an absurd kind of bragging right.  We prepare your kids so well for private schools that they are willing to admit them with (usually) a substantial amount of financial aid.  We also prepare kids to get admitted to Walls and come ready for Wilson even if they were not zoned for Deal.  No little thing.  And in two years of DC CAS, we went from being #3 (behind Washington Latin) to beating them and starting to close the gap with Deal by scoring 2nd to them - in our two years of our existence.

Plus it offers accelerated math and science earlier than anywhere else in this city.

If that is all they do in this city - give kids another middle school option, which prepares them for high school the way other MS's do not - I would say they will have done us a service.[/quote]

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