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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS discussions come up whenever a post is about SH for obvious reasons.  An enormous percentage of the BASIS student body is coming from Capitol Hill where families chose BASIS over SH.  So of course in assessing SH this post is evoking comments from parents explaining why they didn’t choose it.  But those parents didn’t forego SH for Deal.  By and large folks are not choosing between SH and Deal for the obvious reason that they are two very different boundary locations and the commute between the two boundaries is daunting.  So this thread wasn’t going to get too many helpful responses other than the obvious one: if you live in Capitol Hill and are worried about SH, look at BASIS and Latin and if that’s not for you or not an option, choose Deal because it has the better HS feed at the expense of a very long commute if you live on the hill.  That’s it.  [/quote]

Spot on! For anyone who wants the data:

SY21-22 there were 650 kids enrolled at BASIS. Of that...
[u]Eastern Feeders[/u]: 264*
Eastern HS - 80
Eliot Hine - 36
Jefferson - 47
Stuart Hobson - 54
Kelly Miller - 11
Brent - 11
Maury - 11
Peabody/Watkins - 14
LT/JOW - &lt;20 combined

[u]Jackson-Reed Feeders[/u]: 75*
JR - 33
Hardy MS - 17
Deal MS - 25
JR ES - &gt;0

There are not enough (min 10) at each JR feeder ES to be included in the audit results but logic tells us since BASIS doesn't backfill there are sure to some from JR ES feeders in 5th grade. There are also not enough LT or JOW kids to be included in the audit, but anecdotally they number another 10 or so (at least). That means that @65-70% of BASIS is IB for either Wilson or Eastern.

If we layer on top of that the comparison of kids within the catchment that attend the Eastern IB MS/HS vs BASIS we learn that:

SH: 54 at BASIS/142 at SH
Eliot Hine: 36 at BASIS/130 at EH
Jefferson: 47 at BASIS/166 at Jefferson
Eastern: 80 at BASIS/256 at Eastern

That, my friends, is why a discussion of JR and Eastern schools morphs into a BASIS discussion. Because on the basis of enrollment data, BASIS is a large part of any decision for parents contemplating SH and a surprisingly relevant part of the discussion for JR feeder parents. It also confirms what we already knew: DCUM is predominantly occupied by UMC folks from the Hill and upper NW. 
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