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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know exact numbers, but I understand a huge number of current 8th graders decided to stay for 9th.  Since the building has a limit on how many kids it can accommodate, the school may need a smaller entering 5th grade class.  Again, I don’t know the exact numbers.  But I do know the school’s plan for managing higher retention is to decrease the entering fifth grade classes.[/quote]

This is true - essentially the number of 5th graders is directly related to how many seats are already filled with returning students each year. [/quote]

What do we think this means for admitting 5th graders off the waitlist?  That their target is 135, or that they over-admitted again and their target is 100? [/quote]

Probably depends on how many (extra) 8th graders decided to return for 9th grade.  So if 20 more than usual/they have gotten in the past, they probably only want a class size of 115 5th graders rather than 135.

(Separately, this (higher than usual return rate for Basis 9th grade) is very interesting to hear.  I wonder if it is b/c Walls scrapped their entrance exam and made it much more of a lottery to get in)[/quote]

I surmise that BASIS' improved retention is due to a combination of factors, to include satisfaction with the school and [b]concern about Walls' admission standards[/b].  There's likely also a bit of a peer pressure element (e.g., I know of one student who was deciding between Walls and BASIS but chose BASIS reportedly because her friends were staying).[/quote]

I don't want to derail this thread, but are you suggesting that parents decided not to send their kids to Walls because they feared the cohort would be less strong as a consequence of revised admissions standards? Or that thy didn't even apply because of it? I think that is...unrealistic. [/quote]

I can’t speak for other parents, but I have a high-performing BASIS 7th grader.  And, yes, I’m concerned that the cohort at Walls may not be as strong as the cohort in BASIS’ high school.  At least, I doubt it’s stronger.  (If my kid gets into Walls and wants to go I’ll still let her, but I think the incentive would be a change in social scene, not academics.)[/quote]

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