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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With it being increasingly difficult to get into Latin or BASIS, and with increased demand as more UMC families hit middle school, and with all the uncertainty around selective high school admissions, it seems like there would be a lot of interest in a new charter middle and/or high school whose value prop was differentiation/advanced classes. I know there's Latin Cooper. But are there not more attempts at this because they wouldn't get approved, or because it's very difficult to get the real estate, or something else? Thank you. [/quote]

The answer is Latin Cooper.  A whole bunch of 4th graders from our DCPS on Capitol Hill who didn't get into BASIS or the original Latin wound up there for 5th grade, although this is Latin Cooper's first year.  [b]The Latin Cooper 2022 waiting list was short, almost everybody willing to give it a try for 5th grade got it.  [/b]This fall, there will be lots more spots for 5th and 6th grade, and new spots for 7th.  The current building in warehouse isn't too hot, but the school will move to the Kirov Ballet site in two years.

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This is totally untrue. My kids are at a Capitol Hill DCPS and there are multiple kids in our 5th grade who were shut out of Latins x 2/BASIS. Many of them are hoping to get into Cooper for 6th when the class expands and I think there is a good chance that *that* WL will be short b/c so many kids found other paths. But the 2 bites at the Cooper apple is a 1 year solution.[/quote]

It's not totally untrue.  It's all relative. Last year, the Latin Cooper 5th grade WL wasn't nearly as long as BASIS' or that of the original Latin.  We were around #60 on the Latin Cooper WL in the spring but were offered a spot before school started.  We were only #20 on the original Latin WL and never got a spot, and #60 on the BASIS WL and never got a spot there either.[/quote]

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