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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're way out of date. Hardly any CH kids attend Ward 3 schools OOB in 2021. Supply for JKLM etc. spots that put a family on a path to Deal and Wilson is now a tiny fraction of demand.  20 years ago, plenty of Hill kids took that route.

The reality is that BASIS has become the neighborhood MS for Brent, and to a lesser extend for Maury, Watkins, Ludlow and SWS, along CH Montessori, Latin, DCI and several small MS charters (Two Rivers, Inspired Teaching etc.)

More Brent 4th grade graduates have attended BASIS for 5th grade in the last five or six years than 4th grade at Brent.[/quote]

I bet there are more Watkins kids. It’s twice as big, and lots of kids go. I wish they released this data, it would be so interesting.[/quote]

By the time Watkins kids are in 4th grade most IB hill families have left. [/quote]

I’m PP, my kids went to Watkins through fourth, I’m reporting first person.[/quote]

When was this?  In the last year or two?  We've heard that Watkins has started retaining most in-boundary families.  True or false?[/quote]

Watkins has actually dropped from its previous highs (back before Brent, Maury & now L-T had community buy-in and before SWS & CHML split off, Watkins was actually by far the most UMC/IB of the Hill elementary schools), but is now doing a bit better again (although I suspect will take a hit this year, because basically all DCPSes are taking a hit this year). For whatever reason, Brent, Maury & now L-T have had fairly stable trajectories re: IB buy-in once it got going, whereas Watkins has never really been able to take the next step. I think the split school doesn't help because it causes too much of a natural off-ramp.[/quote]

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