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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They leave for a number of reasons.  1.  Some parents are going to send their child to private regardless of the current school.  2.  Some students are great athletes and get recruited to a private school. 3.  Then there are the application schools (Walls, Ellington, Banneker, McKinley). [/quote]

Some posters seem to see Latin as being at stasis.  It is so far from that.  Latin fifth grade has changed dramatically in just the last four years.  The buzz has been growing, the number of academically-minded families staying in DC for middle school is increasing, the waiting list is much longer.  The fact is, whatever the 9th-12th grades have been like in previous years is not predictive of what it will be like going forward - there are just more hard-working kids every year.  My prediction, based upon what I've seen happening in the lower grades, is that the number of kids leaving Latin after 8th grade will drop every year, and each year's graduating class will exceed the previous year in academics and college acceptances.

Deal has long been popular but I hear from friends that Hardy, too, is becoming a destination rather than a default.

All that said, we switched our kid from Latin to Basis for practical reasons, and we like Basis too.  A rising academic tide lifts all middle schools.[/quote]

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