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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have personal experience with Both Basis and Walls...here is the lowdown:

Neither school is great......better option if you can pay or move,  if not live with the choice

Basis is run on a shoestring due to Az. parent company siphoning off $$$$, and thus winds up with young, inexperienced, underpaid teachers who are prone to leave for higher paying jobs,  Walls has less of this problem and does get some benefit of DCPS bloated budgets

Basis curriculum, while average in terms of area high schools, is more advanced than Walls, esp. in 9th and 10th grades.  Walls kids can take some classes in 11th and 12th at GW to partially make up....

Both schools have a lack of facilities.....

Both school have atrocious staff, i.e. do not care about doing their job well or are incapable of doing it well

Walls will have a better 12th grade cohort (but that gap varies by year) as Basis kids left by 12th grade will be the lifers from 5th grade......Walls admissions quality watered down over the years but still get a sampling of higher performing middle school kids

Less time intensive academics at Walls allows kids to spend more time on ECs & Walls has more selective school legacies...and better rep among AOs........leading to better college admission outcomes than Basis (but not stellar in general admissions outcomes)......

Basis has an odd 12th grade schedule.....not clear if that hurts Basis kids in admissions

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These kinds of comparisons are really helpful. [/quote]

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