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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The numbers are right. They're not counseled out, they leave.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Way off for St. Albans. There is nowhere near 30% attrition in grades 4-8, and even less involuntary attritition -- a good percentage of the small number who do not go on to the upper (high school) level make the decision because they want a co-Ed high school. Once you're there it is actually quite supportive, too.[/quote]

30% leave - you agree with that, 3 a year, that number is even low for 8th grade.  tThe reason is not way off. When my left my school I said something similar. But it was for reasons I did not need to share with other.

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I don't get the math on this.  There are 40 kids in the fourth grade, and 60 kids by the end of 8th grade.  There is not attrition of 18 students (30% of 60) between the time a class starts in 4th grade and gets to high school -- not even close.  And even 12 total (30% of the original 40 in the class) is very high -- most of those original 40 C Formers go on to the high school.  If you're familiar with the schools around here, St. Albans might be one of the LEAST aggressive about "counseling out," particularly compared to the Pre-K through 12 schools (and that is not to criticize, it makes more sense that student fit would change more between ages 4 and 14).  [/quote][/quote]

The numbers are nowhere near right.  Neither 12 out of the original 40 (30% of the 4th grade), nor 18 out of 60 (30% of the number by 8th grade) leave before Upper School.  Again, there is not a lot of attrition most years, but the numbers are small enough that it can vary by year.  Nevertheless, this suggests that there are a lot of ninth grade openings and aside from the normal 9th grade expansion with 20 admits to about 75-80, there are not a lot of extra slots from droves of eighth graders going elsewhere.

Given that we both agree there's not a lot of counseling out, I guess it doesn't really matter that we disagree on the extent of attrition.  (And if potential families are very interested they can get specifics from the STA Admissions office.) [/quote]

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