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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Congrats to BASIS DC!!!

BASIS DC high school was just ranked #12 in the entire United States, and the top high school in DC by a huge margin!!![/b]

https://jaymathewschallengeindex.com[/quote]

Oh FFS.  Jay Mathews is practically on their payroll at this point.  Why is BASIS burning through its waitlist so fast, if it's so great?[/quote]

Self-selection.  Not every kid can handle Basis.

Wait list is moving slower each year.[/quote]

BASIS burns through its WL mainly because it's not set up as a school as much as a test prep center. Many families EotP want a school offering not just strong test prep, but a well-rounded education and good facilities, even if their children could handle the BASIS curriculum easily enough. If you can't afford the latter within the District and don't want to move outside, you may go for the former.

If you take a close look at the criteria US News and World Report uses to determine HS rankings, it's not difficult to see that their focus is narrow: they care almost entirely about scores on state standardized tests, SATs and APs, particularly for poor kids.

BASIS only graduates about a dozen poor kids each spring (down from two dozen six or eight years ago). To be fair to the franchise, their tiny pool of graduating poor kids knocks it out of the park on tests, hence the #1 ranking in DC and Arizona. If USNWR ranked school facilities, leadership, offerings in the arts, academic rigor beyond the AP curriculum (e.g. Intl Baccalaureate Higher Level languages), sports and so on, BASIS wouldn't rank #1 in DC or elsewhere.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings[/quote]

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