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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I skipped through the Basis debates. Any more perspectives on what this means for Capitol Hill? We are in Watkins and have been interested to see more and more neighbors heading to Stuart Hobson (the enrollment data that someone posted in another thread backs this up). Given the number of Cap Hill kids that head to Basis for middle school, Basis adding a primary school seems like it would reduce middle school slots for Cap Hill kids and drive them to SH or Eliot Hine, right? SH in particular seems to be becoming a viable option quickly and I’ve heard Maury parents are increasingly sending to EH. Seems like this move by Basis will only help Cap Hill schools improve, yes? Am I understanding this correctly? [/quote]

No one knows for sure what impact this would have. The question is whether the same (CH heavy) population of kids who peel off for BASIS in 5th will do so in K. If not, presumably over time BASIS will fill up with elementary kids and those CH families won't have available seats in 5th. Those kids are going to have to go somewhere. The hope is that they might be willing to give SH or EH a try.

The alternative outcome here is that families that are today staying at CH elementary schools might decide the risk is now too great without the 135 seat BASIS escape valve. They might also realize that even if EH and SH are workable, what happens for HS? These factors could cause families to depart CH (and DC) earlier, thereby weakening the elementary cohorts that have built up the CH elementary schools.

No one knows. [/quote]

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