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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the bottom line.

Of the 3 acceptable charters for middle school (Latin, DCI, and Basis), you really only have a shot at Basis.

The chances for DCI and Latin is like wining the powerball with sibling preferences.

End of story.

As to if Basis will be a good fit for your kid, that’s another story and risk you take.[/quote]

Expand your view.
My kid (and their friends) have had good experiences at Center City, ITS and Sojourner Truth for middle school.[/quote]

ITS okay, but CC and SJ have incredibly low test scores (CC especially low in ELA, SJ better in ELA but especially low in math). And all three of these schools are teeny tiny, which means (1) not a lot of seats available, and (2) will be hard to find a cohort of high achieving kids when overall test scores are so low.

By middle school parents aren't merely looking for pleasant experience. They want to make sure their children will be prepared for HS academics with a pathway to college. This is alarmingly hard in DC. [/quote]

+1.  Such small schools will not have a good cohort of high achieving kids.  In addition, they won’t have actual classes of high performing kids for separate tracking.p.

I will also add the negatives of such small schools are there is not the breath of curriculum, variety of courses, and many electives. Lastly, not much EC, clubs, and sports.[/quote]

Fair on the latter,  but Truth definitely has kids tracking in Algebra in 7th, Geometry in 8th, and puts kids in groups for ELA. So flyers are flying from our experience.[/quote]

So they have an actual class of at least 20 kids in Algebra in 7th?   What parameters do the use for placement of so?

Or what exactly do you mean by tracking? [/quote]

There is no need to have 20.

I don't have a kid at Truth but I do have a kid at ITDS. Basically at ITDS they put all 8th graders in Algebra, and some 8th graders also take Geometry. The placement for Geometry is based on math performance in the prior year, there's no separate test just for this. There's also an "interview" to make sure the workload is well understood. Geometry is not a requirement, it's an option. ITDS typically has about 40 8th graders so obviously there wouldn't be 20 in Geometry. It's however many qualify and choose to take it.[/quote]

So you are talking about less than a handful of kids doing what?  Algebra or geometry on their own?  Since there is no class with teacher teaching it.

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There is a class for Algebra which is about 20 kids. There is a class for Geometry which has as many kids as qualify and opt in. Each class is taught by a teacher. There does not have to be 20 kids to have a class. There does not have to be 20 kids to have a teacher. Why are you thinking so rigidly about this? Try to be more flexible. [/quote]

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