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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jefferson is fine.  But it is also possible to return for 5th grade and then lottery for Hardy, SH, EH, go private, move, whatever.  The US model has been losing lots of students to Basis and some students to options like 5th grade at Ludlow and leaving the system after 4th grade who might have under other circumstances been more willing to stay through 5th.[/quote]

This basically describes my family. SH and EH had 50-55 lottery spots each last year. And there are a decent number of students at Brent who are already IB for one of them and are at Brent via proximity preference or other in the lottery. Jefferson would be a last result for us primarily due to logistics - there's no great public transport from where we are on the Hill, parents both work in opposite directions of SW, and the bike route to there isn't something we'd let a 6th grader do. SH on the other hand would be very easy for us and has a lot of the extracurriculars that appeal to our kid. We'd strongly consider Brent -> SH, but the US model is forcing us to look at the charters that start at 5th. [/quote]

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