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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 4th grader at Inspired. I know parents and kids in every grade 5th through 8th. The school will have a full middle school cohort (about 200 kids) for the first time next school year. We are planning to stay, but I know that 1) a small middle school isn't for everyone and 2) there are some parents who will jump at the chance to lock down a high school feed (Latin, Basis, Deal) as soon as they can.

The school has definitely had some growing pains with regard to middle school, but I am impressed with the way they've looked at what's working and what's not working and made thoughtful adjustments and changes. It's definitely a big challenge to incorporate a bunch of new kids coming from a really wide variety of elementary schools in 5th and 6th grades. The kids I know in the upper grades are overwhelmingly kind and thoughtful and engaged with the world. From what I have seen, the school is taking steps to improve targeted intervention, differentiation, and rigor.

Inspired's kids are achieving basically the same PARCC results (school-wide, by demographic cohort) as Two Rivers, but Inspired is 5 years "newer." Both Inspired and Two Rivers came close to clearing their 5th grade waitlists this year. [/quote]

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