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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know families who bailed from BASIS after 5th grade for DMV privates, the burbs, Stuart Hobson in-boundary or schools outside the Metro area. Not an unusual choice to leave after 5th.[/quote]

That isn't what DC school data show.

[b]Only a relatively small number leave after 5th.  More leave after 6th, 7th, and 8th (most leaving after 8th go to Walls or private).  From SY 19-20 to SY 23-24,  no one went from BASIS DC to Stuart Hobson right after 5th grade.
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Almost no one leaves in high school.

The fact is that a lot of kids should never enroll, and those are the ones that wash out.  Other kids simply leave for greener pastures (for example, Big 3, the burbs, Walls, or they leave the area).[/quote]

This is 100% untrue. Something is weird with the data if that's what it shows, because I personally know someone who did that the year before last. And there's a current 8th grader who bailed back to their old ES halfway through 5th grade and then went to SH, but I'm not sure how that shows up.[/quote]

Interesting. Well, it didn't happen last year -- the 5th grade class only lost a handful of students. I know this because my child is in that class.

I get the sense that every class gets a little better at attracting the right kids. Maybe thanks to this forum, who knows.

The pace of studying/HW picks up a LOT in 6th. So we'll see what happens this year, there are plenty of kids struggling who were fine last year.[/quote]

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