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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy: 327 right-grade kids living in the Hardy boundary. 531 kids attend Hardy total. Seventeen kids IB for Hardy attend BASIS. No matter how you slice it, that isn't much. 17/327=5.2%. Wow!

Stuart-Hobson: 368 right-grade kids live IB. 508 kids total attend Stuart-Hobson. 54 kids IB for Stuart-Hobson attend BASIS. So BASIS is capturing about 15% of kids IB for Stuart-Hobson, and a much smaller percentage of the kids who attend Stuart-Hobson.

Eliot-Hine: 483 kids live in the boundary. 317 kids attend Eliot-Hine. 36 kids IB for Eliot-Hine attend BASIS. So about 7.5%. BASIS is the fourth most popular middle school for kids IB for Eliot-Hine, after EH, Friendship Blow-Pierce, and Stuart-Hobson. Wow, I'm so impressed, BASIS boosters!

Jefferson: 492 kids live in the boundary. 375 kids attend Jefferson total. 47 kids IB for Jefferson attend BASIS. Good going, BASIS, you're almost at 10% of kids IB for Jefferson!

McKinley Middle: 650 kids live in the boundary (wow). 10 attend BASIS. That's amazing, I really thought it would be higher! Major congrats, BASIS, on being tied for 20th-most-popular middle school for the Bloomingdale, Eckington, Edgewood, and part of Brookland community! BASIS attracts fewer kids from this boundary than ITS, TRY, Howard, Deal(!), Hardy(!), Stuart-Hobson, and Jefferson. Tell me again, are allllll of these kids lottery losers or too dumb to survive at BASIS?[/quote]

This is literally the dumbest argument, and the reason it's dumb has been explained to you over and over, so you're clearly failing to understand on purpose.

BASIS is a relatively small school, and it can only "capture" students up to how many kids it's able to admit.  So of course you're going to have 10% of one school, 7% of another school, etc.  It also makes sense that schools with boundaries that are farther away (e.g. Hardy, McKinley) will have fewer families choosing BASIS than schools that are closer to the BASIS campus (e.g. SH), purely for commute reasons.

You don't have to like BASIS.  Nobody cares.  You clearly have a gigantic chip on your shoulder because BASIS is drawing kids away from EH.  That's going to happen, because BASIS has a strong high school, and EH feeds into Eastern, which is a dead end for most people.

Maybe instead of spending all your time trying to convince folks that BASIS is unpopular (which has been debunked by multiple posters in this thread and is super weird), you can go do some teacher appreciation for the EH teachers.  Time better spent. [/quote]

Nobody said Basis isn’t popular. [b]It’s going to become less popular on the Hill as EH strengthens[/b], and that’s just a fact. There just are not people lining up to choose Basis over a solid IB. [/quote]

Until there is a strong high school option, this will not be true.  Particularly if DCPS doesn't get its act together with Walls. [/quote]

I truly do not want to perpetuate the triggering of Basis folks here; but based on countless discussions with parents, a significant number prefer EH MS to Basis even with the HS problem. Many are planning on private HS or open to considering Banneker, Ellington, McKinley.  [/quote]

I am at EH and don't know anyone who [i]doesn't [/i]want to go to Basis.[/quote]

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