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[quote=Anonymous]Is that 34% of at-risk applications for 5th grade seats?  What seems to happen is that it is UMC parents who are laser-focused on a MS/HS path and are willing to pull their kids from their local ES after 4th in order to get a 5th grade lottery seat---which is when Basis and Latin completely fill up.  But the at-risk families apply more often for 6th grade (which is the natural MS entry-point for most of the DCPS system) or at 9th grade (for HS)---and in those instances there are fewer seats available for those years.   In its early days, when it was located in a hodgepodge of buildings on 16th street, Latin had an extremely high percentage of at-risk kids at the high school level because the middle class families all left for more traditional HS environments (privates, Walls, Jackson-Reed).  So Latin had more available seats in 9th grade.  But after Latin moved into its permanent building location and the college counseling program became established with good results, families who previously would have left for HS elected to remain.[/quote]

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