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Enrollment is very low in the HS. Every year a solid majority leaves between 8th and 9th. Used to need +/-12 APs to graduate, now it’s 4. Test scores are good but when you read on the BIM website, you have to get to the fine print to see that the scores and 130 grads are across several schools. Who cares about the number of grads at another school when looking at a school in McLean?? Seems purposefully deceptive on something that is easily uncovered. Bizarre.[/quote]

At a few of the top-performing Basis charter schools, in order to graduate students must pass a minimum number of AP tests (I think it was a minimum of 4 tests). BUT, at McLean, this requirement has not been in place (I think they might be required to pass 1 AP test).

You are definitely right that the data the school provides on its website is extremely misleading (if not outright lies). It is not data that is specific to Basis McLean students. Rather, it has been cobbled together from selected top-performing schools. Those schools, like Basis Tucson, require that a student pass a minimum number of AP tests in order to graduate -- so everyone who can't pass that minimum number of AP classes eventually has to drop out of Basis and go to a school that doesn't have that graduation requirement. Whatever glowing scores the school presents are highly "cooked."

Again: Basis McLean does not have the same graduation requirements. Their requirements are lower. AND -- administration has asked teachers to change grades in order to pass students and make paying parents happen -- especially when it comes to manipulating the grades on the comprehensive exams worth 50% of the students' grades.

Right now, for the 2021–2022 school year, they are looking for multiple teachers to replace teachers who quit. They are constantly posting new positions for the current school year.

McLean boasts having a low student-teacher ratio, but in most sections there are 25 students! This is actually the goal: to fill each class with 25 students.
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