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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The half dozen IB Brent families who went on to to Jefferson this year can be thrilled with their choice without that changing the fact that more than 85% of the 4th grade families rejected the program, like they've done for years.
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There are definitely more than [b]half a dozen Brent families with kids in this year's sixth grade class at Jefferson[/b]. I know this, because my family is one of them. (And for what's it's worth, Jefferson also has kids from Van Ness this year, as Van Ness gradated its first fifth-grade class last year.)

I understand your larger point, but please try to make it without hyperbole.

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Brent families, yes, in-boundary families, no. [/quote]

And herein lies the rub… [b]Vanishingly few Brent IB families go to Jefferson.[/b] The same is true for Maury/EH. At least 10 LT IB families go to SH each year. [/quote]

Vanishing isn't wrong. I remember a parent at an open house asking why admins thought fewer Brent graduates were enrolled at Jefferson in 2020 than in 2019, when there were fewer still than in 2018. Admins blamed the enrollment slide on chaos related to major renovations and pandemic school closures. It sounds like there's been an uptick in enrollment from Brent this year, but it's not as though Jefferson has taken off for Brent in recent years. DCI and Stuart Hobson appear to be attracting most of the families who fail to get off the BASIS and Latin wait lists. Yet causes of lagging enrollment don't seem to have been researched by any quarter.[/quote]

DCI takes the kids from its feeder immersion schools.  They might take a handful of kids not in feeders and that handful will be more competitive each year.  Most CH families who don’t get into Basis or Latin are not getting into DCI.

[b]In fact, you have a much higher probability of getting into Latin and Basis than DCI.[/b][/quote]

In theory, but not true this year. We got off the DCI wait list late this past summer with a number we never thought would work in the spring. DCI went deep into wait lists for all three languages this year.  No idea if it will happen again though. We didn't get off the BASIS wait list last year or this year.  [/quote]

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