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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids who rise to the top in public are the crème de la crème for 9th grade admissions. Watch out K-8 schools! [/quote]

Absolutely not the case at Sidwell for 9th. The entering 9th grade class during my kids’ years there have been largely comprised of grads from the best k-8s (but not all k-8s), then OOS kids from the Bay area or NY/NJ. THEN MoCo and far behind is DCPS.

IME the kids coming from MoCo transfer in at earlier points like fourth and sixth. [/quote]

Why would kids from the Bay Area and NY/NJ consistently be a part of Sidwell’s entering 9th grade? After an election year and an administration change that would be expected, but it is not the norm every year.[/quote]

How do out-of-state kids enroll at Sidwell? Are the whole families moving from the Bay Area/ NY/NJ just so that their kid can attend Sidwell? Or are these families who were moving to DC anyway for work and were looking for a school for their child? Sidwell doesn’t have a boarding option … [/quote]

No insight about any particular school, but families move in and out of metro DC all the time due to jobs.  And changes of administration are not the main driver for this — ordinary non-government jobs drive this.[/quote]

Yes, each year there are a couple of kids coming from out of state or even out of country . All sorts of reasons. 
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That is true of all DC area schools, private and public. Nothing special to Sidwell here. [/quote]

I never said sidwell was special. I explained who comes in at 9th grade at Sidwell because it’s the one school I know firsthand, over multiple years.  Top (not all) k-8s send the far and away most new 9th graders. Then probably a tie — on AVERAGE — between kids moving from OOS, from MoCo and NoVa public schools.  One or two DCPS kids. Rounded out with football or basketball recruits (that we don’t call athletic recruits) from really distant suburbs. Or DC. [/quote]

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