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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So OP, you are going to move your kid to 5th to a new school.  Then majority of those kids won’t go to the feeder SH or EH or whatever.

You send your kid to the feeder then fund out that it’s not a good fit for various reasons and then what?  Switch where?  Move?  So now your kid has had 3-4 major disruptive moves.

Lots of risks and variable that you can’t control and won’t know.  You should have been planning your move as back up 2 years ago since you are not in a good feeder.[/quote]

So, looking at that dashboard (which is 1 year out of date), 62% of L-T’s 5th graders went to SH and, if you look at the other schools that folks went to, it seems like that the high achievers are at least proportionally represented among the 62%. That’s a solid cohort.

Maury is almost identical with 63%. The question is whether you’d be as happy at EH as SH and whether your kid would be as happy at an ES with very few new 5th graders. Only you can answer those questions.

I would not personally send my kid to Watkins, which is like 10% IB by that point and does not have great scores as a result (though the scores are good for demographics). That said, 73% of kids go on to SH, so there will be a cohort.

Brent, on the other hand, is only 10 kids or 30% headed to Jefferson, and if you look at the other schools, it’s likely high achievers are underrepresented among the 10. Very different experience.

I personally would make the switch and I don’t think you’d need to worry that there wouldn’t be a cohort at any of the 3 schools mentioned. SWS is different. Fewer than 10 kids head to EH (and I think it’s actually a lot fewer); that switch isn’t worth it.[/quote]

Patent of current Maury 4th grader here. We also struck out on lottery for Latin (didn’t try for BASIS). Glad to see the percentage going on to EH from Maury. FWIW, we really like Maury and find test data suggests kids who go from Maury to EH do really well. And that elusive anecdotal evidence you mentioned is very positive as to EH. People without kids there seem to look down on it but those who choose it seem happy. It’s a smaller school with apparently a strong admin.[/quote]

The percentages are not representative of the high performing kids.  Just because 50 or 60% of the kids at LT went to SH does not mean those 50-60% of kids are all above grade level, even on grade level.  It also doesn’t mean that your kids friends are going on to the feeder either.

Look at the CAPE scores 5 of the middle schools and you can easily see percentages total of high performing kids at the school.

Of course if your kid is on grade level, they are going to do pretty well if overwhelming majority on below grade level.  It’s all relative.

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