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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is weird because the vast majority of competitive high schools are part of a K-12 and take most of their class in the lower school. STA goes from 60 to 80 in 9th grade, for example, and NCS is even less.

I grew up in another major city and the competitive high schools often didn't have lower schools at all, or had very small ones. I just looked up the school I graduated from, and they jump from 50-60 in 8th to 140-150 in 9th. That's a real different vibe. It also lets them functionally screen for students who will do well in the college process, since by 8th grade, you have real information about someone as a student. It was routinely mentioned that the strongest students were the new 9th and 10th graders. I can't think of many (any?) school in DC that works that way.[/quote]

That is different, but why wouldn’t the K12s here still screen for students who would do well in the college process? What else would they be looking for?[/quote]

Exactly. They screen for kids who can hack the academics and for kids who won't disrupt the outplacement statistics.[/quote]

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