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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They also have a "disinvite" policy. [b] If students do not maintain a B average or have behavior problems, they are not invited back after freshman year.  The current sophomore class is 20% smaller than last year. [/b] [/quote]

Holy c---p! That's tougher than most private schools from what I've heard. Are all the HS application DCPS schools like this?[/quote]

BASIS DC has comprehensive exams 6th-8th.  If you fail anything but math, you take it again in the fall, and if you fail again you have two choices - repeat the grade or leave the school.  Means the kids who are now in 8th (who started in 6th) are a pretty solid group.  Our oldest class is only in 10th grade, we have been open for 3 years, most admits are in 5th.  Some in 6th, but you are behind.  After that no new admissions.  It is a pyramid model, and a chain, and the oldest BASIS schools in AZ only graduate 50/60 kids a year.  Great math tracking starting in 5th, science tracking starting in 8th.  No majors like McKinley though.  Over 40% FARMS, enough white students not to have to worry about being an "only," and the number of white students seems to be increasing every year.  The MS beat everyone except for Deal on the DC CAS last year.[/quote]
Yesterday you hijacked a post about Banneker. Today you're hijacking a post about McKinley Tech.
Looks like BASIS recruiters are getting desperate[/quote]

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