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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is one of the things that’s nice about actually starting out at a high demand charter, nobody leaves. Of course now kid is in a new class new teachers and mostly unfamiliar other students in a virtual classroom. Almost may as well be a new school.[/quote]

Friends of ours were saying how they’d hate to move their new second grader this late since he has established friends at school. They’re at DCB. Took a lot not to roll my eyes and tell him at other schools kids are coming and going every year, so staying put wouldn’t guarantee established friends.[/quote]

We are at a so-called HRCS and there's definitely turnover in every year.  Not as much as at our IB, but definitely it's noticeable and some close friends have left for various reasons. [/quote]

You live in Washington DC. This is a transient city. In addition to turnover an average city may see we have lots of government employees who move into and out of DC on a regular basis. My kid's school roster has been incredibly stable but in the last 4 or 5 years alone in their grade alone we have lost kids to: State Department relos out of country, DOJ lawyer relos in US, DOJ relos out of country, Coast Guard relos, Army relos, FBI relos, just to name a few. This is type of transiency is unique to DC. My point is simply that the fact that kids may leave a school is neither an indictment of the school's future nor something to be entirely written off. But simply chiming in to say that you have had some kids leave your school at your HRCS or DCPS school without providing numbers, percentages or some kind of context doesn't actually communicate anything useful. [/quote]

The published retention rate of students does not include kids who leave dc school system (not sure about private).  If only counts if they move to another charter or dcps school (again not sure about private).  A school with a 95% retention rate lost 5% to other dcps or charter schools.  They likely lost students to moves, even suburb moves.  Those don't count in that 5%. It's a useful number for this reason.  [/quote]

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