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[quote=Anonymous]Burgundy parent here. While I would not dismiss the significance of kids leaving after 6th or 7th grade, missing out the last year or two in a JK-8 school, I think you have to know the circumstances to know the reasons. The rising 7th grade lost one student, who joined a sibling in public school. The rising 8th grade lost four, which IS a lot in a class of 32, but not devastating. One left because of unhappiness with the school -- OK, it happens. Among the other kids,  at least one applied to a major DC private school for 8th grade to have an extra chance of getting in an "off year" for admissions -- ie, not 9th grade! Another one may have simply tapped out on the math curriculum --  this was a brilliant kid who probably needed to be in a 7-12 environment to continue flying through math. You CAN accelerate in math at Burgundy, but there is acceleration and then there is acceleration. I don't think this reflects poorly on Burgundy -- with 32 kids per grade, there is a limit as to what they are going to offer in terms of extremely advanced work. We are not talking about a normally gifted kid - there are loads of those at Burgundy. This kid was a real rarity academically. Not sure about the 4th kid -- I was surprised because she came from a  longtime Burgundy family, but people have their reasons, not all of which are a knock on the school.[/quote]

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