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What you see in the upper grades at Latin is that the school struggled under previous leadership.  Some of the high SES kids left (not really sure what color -- does it matter?).  Latin doesn't admit after 9th.  I see a lot of kids who are choosing to stay at Latin for HS, including kids who get into private and Walls.  I see Latin offering a lot of support to students who struggle -- extra work during the elective period, after school help, and summer school.  I think you will also see a lot of students staying at Latin just looking at their college placement.  Latin got every single graduating senior into college from its first graduating class and in terms of scholarship money for their first graduating class more than Walls did on a per student basis (8 million versus 5.5 million; 109 graduating seniors versus 42).

I don't think you can make any assumptions about high SES attrition at Basis.  With Wilson closed to OOB, where do the high SES kids go who don't want to do private and don't live in bounds for Wilson?  [/quote]

You certainly can make these assumptions with some degree of certainty because all the other good middle schools in the city experience high SES attrition between 8th and 9th grades.  Deal-Wilson is a classic example - the high school is still only one-quarter white/high-SES in a catchment area that's at least two-thirds white/high-SES.

Latin parents love to claim that the attrition is behind them, but it's not.  Yes, more and more high SES kids are staying for 9th, but they're still losing the majority.  While graduating seniors are going to college, they aren't going to top schools, which doesn't work for many high SES families.

While high-performing low-SES AA kids can readily win scholarship money in the form of financial aid, high-SES parents who cannot easily afford $50,000+ colleges cannot.  Affluent parents often don't want to pay full fare at the sort of colleges Latin graduates are being admitted to, and don't want state schools as their only option.  Yes, I know they've only had one graduating class, but they're not exactly on track to become Stuyvesant, which gets at least two three dozen kids into each Ivy League school every year.

The high SES kids you describe often go to the burbs well before high school.  Still.

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