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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If instead you are referring to a wholesale bolt in 9th grade, that happens throughout DCPS.  Private high school is candy to those who can afford it, but if the school is successful in its mission to teach kids well, the SES ratio will not be the deciding factor.  Remember too that if you compared two virtually identical high-SES seniors, one at private one at public, the kid at the public school will have an easier time getting into the top colleges.  [/quote]

I agreed with you PP before I enrolled by kid in 9th at Latin.  The SES ratio is a deciding factor in retention regardless.  We won't be back for 10th and neither will some of her high SES friends.  The 10th grade DC-CAS scores that just came out (45% of AA kids not proficient) were an eye-opener.  I assumed that at least 2/3 of the AA kids would test proficient.  The kids who don't test proficient are not in honors classes with mine, but the classes aren't all that hot anyway.  Poverty does tend to hurt the performance of even the most academic low SES kids, why they need special help to thrive.

You can't get two virtually identifical high SES seniors, one at private and one at public in DC.  The experiences are too different.  What I've observed in interviewing DC applicants for a top New England liberal arts for nearly 20 years is that public school kids rarely do well enough academically to be in the running, particularly white kids.  Yes, white kids.  Low-income minorities tend to get a small break in admissions denied to others.  Maybe Basis will change that, but I haven't observed the "easier time" for high SES kids.

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