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[quote=Anonymous]Happy Ideaventions Academy high school parent responding.  :)

IDV's engineering and CS classes are phenomenal.  
IDV's parent community is warm and welcoming.

Put the two together, and you get this: https://www.facebook.com/ideaventionsacademy/posts/2042540659330386

For ninth grade in particular, I would say the big differences between IDV and FCPS are size and academic level.  (FCPS academics are great by the time you reach AP courses in grade eleven.)

IDV caps class sizes at ten, which allows teachers to really know each student well and tutor individually.  (I've taught high school: there is a tipping point around fifteen.)
On the other hand, FCPS schools have robust sports, music, and extra-curricular programs made possible by their large size.

The IDV students all know each other well, and there is a spirit of congenial collaboration and encouragement, respect for differences, and appreciation for each other. 
FCPS ... can be overwhelming if you don't know people already, because of the size.

IDV allows qualified students to take AP science and computer science starting in ninth grade, compared with eleventh grade for FCPS (and tenth for BASIS).
IDV - though it bills itself as a math and science school - has incredible depth and rigor in its History and English courses.  Our children are writing, regularly, 5- and 10-page papers such as we weren't doing until college.

Comparing IDV to BASIS, the main differences come down to size (discussed above) and focus.  BASIS is very test-focussed.  IDV is more lab- and depth-focussed.

This means IDV has an unusually sweet non-competitive environment: the students help each other in a very natural way, and appreciate each other's strengths.  They are very much "all in this together."
And the teachers and leaders truly care about your child.

Comparing IDV to BASIS financially, IDV is less expensive.  The annual tuition is comparable, but at IDV it is an all-inclusive number, whereas at BASIS there were many extra costs: daily lunch, books, field trips, student activity fee, AP tests, clubs, extra-curricular activities, bus service.  The only add-on at IDV is the optional year-end trip; the base tuition charge covers everything on that list.

IDV has seven students in grade nine this year.  It would consider growing the class to as large as ten.

Any other questions? :) Happy to oblige.
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