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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another takeaway is that one’s views of their K-8 experience likely turn on how happy they were with outplacement. The families that are happy of course think the K-8 model worked well for them. But are families whose kids were not admitted to their school of choice (whatever it was) still happy they chose the K-8 model?[/quote]

For sure, outplacement plays a role in how people view the K8 in retrospect.  But a lot higher percentage of people match at their first choice school at our K8 than you might guess just looking at a list.  You have to remember these schools serve a variety of different levels of students.  So students placing at, say, St. Andrews (which is a lovely school) are often hitting their preferred destination.  Not everyone (or even a majority) is hoping for Sidwell and then going down the list of most prestigious or whatever.  Sidwell would be a miserable placement for many kids at our school.  At our school, my sense was that 70-80% or so hit their first course school or a school in the same range.  But we are a smaller K8 so that might make it somewhat easier in some respects.  Maybe about 20% were not happy with the outcome.  But a good chunk of these are people that are just being unrealistic and are unusually vocal.  [/quote]

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