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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree that many more CH parents will head to JA, EH and SH if most BASIS spits are pinned down by K-4 families. More like more will move or go private. BASIS has been the Hill’s most popular MS for more than a decade now for a reason. [/quote]

Just wanted to pop on to offer a quick counter point. There are a lot more families in the various Capitol Hill elementary schools than people realize and all of the schools, if not most of them have increasing enrollment (This is in contrast to the city as a whole which the largest growing population is high school students.)

As someone who has lived in the neighborhood for 20 years and had kids in public schools for the past 10 years, you cannot project the future based on past trends.

The edscape site has been referenced here on this forum many times, they will be releasing updated data soon. In addition to that website the 'books' with data on every public, middle school and high school on this website are also really informative 
https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/46

Also, the data on that site is from the school year before last. So for example the MacArthur page talks about all the programs but doesn't have actual data because when the book was printed the school hadn't opened yet. The new version that includes last years data is also going to be posted on that site shortly.

I mentioned those two sites because people on this forum get upset when people talk about anecdotal stories and both of those sites have a lot of hard data to show that while Basis and Latin continue to be popular, families are enrolling in other options as well. At EH for example, last years 6th grade was bigger than projected by maybe 25-30 kids, this year the 6th grade is 20-30 students bigger. And there are some children who are returning to public schools after trying out other options. Will some kids move if they don't get into a specific school? Yes, but those who are staying are doing just fine too.

In the end of the day, it is a good thing to have options, different kids and families have different priorities, but everyone benefits when all the schools start growing and having more course offerings, club offerings, teams etc. [/quote]

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