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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Very few privates have admission years at 6th grade.[/b] The two charters that appeal to WOTP families, Latin and Basis, do almost all of their admissions in fifth grade. So at my WOTP school (a Hardy feeder) there is a steady bleed starting at third grade. The fifth grade is about 30% of the size of the kindergarten.

Parents have to make a decision about middle school in third or fourth grade, which means making a prediction about where Hardy is going to be 2-3 years out. So far few families have been willing to gamble on that.[/quote]

Wrong ^^^[/quote]

This is true at Key and Mann. Very small 5th grades. Not clear what pp thinks is wrong.[/quote]

I am certain that it's patently wrong to assert that "very few" private schools in dc / close in "have admission" in 6th grade.

In fact, ALL the best independent schools admit students in 6th grade.  In fact I'll go even further and state that for the best-known schools, 6th is one of their two [u]most important[/u] intake years (with 9th being the other ).

Do you even live in dc?
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That's absolutely true for private schools. For some charters (latin, basis) you have 5-7 times as many chances for 5th grade than 6th grade.
Some families in ward 3 apply for private schools as early as 3rd grade for the following reasons:
1. Misinformation and contagious panicking. There's a false impression that you have higher chances in 3rd, 4th grade than in 5th grade 
2. If you fail to get a good placement is 4th grade, then you van try again in the following year with a different set of schools
3. Older siblings already migrated to private schools , so economies of scale in dropping/picking if you drive

Again, enrollment numbers in private schools have halved compared to 2004. Stay calm and do not contaminate with panic our kids who are staying.[/quote]

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