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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard from a very reliable source that the average SAT of the graduating class was in the low 900's, lower than Latin, Wilson or Walls. 
So what happened to all the fast track and AP classes?[/quote]

The graduating class started with almost 90 students, and only the top 16 survived, took advanced classes and several AP's and scored no more than a regular DCPS school?[/quote]

The class started with 49 kids, not 90.

https://osse.dc.gov/publication/fy13-lea-and-school-level-enrollment-audit-reports[/quote]

The only conclusion that I can draw about Basis is that 68% of the kids in a very tiny class (starting with 49 kids, if the PP is right) either dropped out or were otherwise shown the door before 12th grade. That is an astonishing number. I'm amazed that a school with statistics like these still exists, frankly, whether or not it serves the tiny number of surviving students well. There are local homeschool groups that "graduate" more children in a year.

I would certainly hope that the surviving 32% did well with college admissions. I'm guessing that even the worst-performing DCPS school might also have decent college admissions if it could somehow persuade 68% of its lowest-performing children to move on before their senior year.

Congrats to the kids who made it through and got into the colleges of their choosing, but this doesn't seem like a sustainablemodel, let alone one that makes good use of taxpayer money.

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Let's wait and see what happens in future years. Anacostia high school has a graduation rate of 42 percent and 0 Princeton acceptances.[/quote]

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