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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it is approved, one way that it could help is by forcing families to choose early on whether they are going the BASIS route or taking a different path. This will mean fewer kids leaving elementary schools at 4th grade so the schools won't have weird tiny/combined classes (Brent and I think Ross) or take in a bunch of new kids for 5th grade. Some kids will still leave for Latin or elementaries with preferred feeder patterns, but it could help a bit. [/quote]

Making the 5th grade statistics school-wide will not be a boon to a lot of these schools.  Lower-performing earlier grades will threaten the progress a lot of these schools have made (and in turn the progress they have made/hope to make at schools like SH, EH, and Jefferson).  DC shouldn't allow a Basis elementary — it is a huge threat to progress in DCPS.[/quote]

Except for the schools immediately adjacent to this future BASIS elementary, I don't think any one DCPS school would lose enough kids to BASIS to make a big difference. It's going to require both a good lottery number and an enthusiasm for BASIS, and many people don't have both of those things.[/quote]

BASIS and Latin make a huge dent in a lot of schools for 5th grade.  The impact here will fall somewhat short of that (because the Latins won't be taking elementary students), but I think it might be more than just the BASIS 5th grade numbers.  A not inconsiderable number of families go through these elementaries on the theory that they'll take their chances in the BASIS/Latin lottery for 5th, but the Latins are approaching impossible for non-siblings, and BASIS will approach impossible if its spots are taken by its elementary students.  It might push more families out of DCPS earlier if they don't see any light at the end of the elementary tunnel.[/quote]

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