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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don't let in anyone after 5th grade.  Even siblings[/quote]

Per the head of school last year, they will offer seats in older grades if and only if the total number of students not returning (seniors plus attrition) exceeds something like 135 students.  [/quote]

I didn’t realize they offer any seats. Isn’t their position the curriculum is so advanced that they can’t backfill seats?
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BASIS has a max capacity of about 650 students.  If a kid leaves after, say, 8th grade, they don’t backfill by admitting a new kid to 9th.  Under their charter, they can’t cherry pick a kid to fill that slot in 9th grade (for example, by selecting the student with the highest score on an entrance exam or require that a student repeat a grade that he or she did at a different school); they just have to admit the #1 listed kid in the lottery for the applicable grade.  However, it is likely that a random kid wouldn’t be able to handle the 9th grade material at BASIS, which is several grade levels advanced and builds on the previous 4 years.  As a result, they fill that seat by picking a 5th grader.

The 5th grade class is 135.  If they have a few seats left over to get to 650, they will admit some for 6th, 7th, or 8th—these slots generally go to siblings of current students, given sibling preference in the lottery.  Last year, no one was admitted beyond 5th grade.  This year they let in three for 7th grade.
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So a sibling admitted for eighth grade is assumed to be able to handle the eighth grade material though they haven’t been there for the previous three years and may be behind by several grade levels?
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They’ll have to pass the 8th grade comps in each class or they will not advance to 9th grade. [/quote]

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