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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It appears that this is the business model for the BASIS franchise (not unique to DC).  According the news report, "During the 2012 to 2013 school year, BASIS Scottsdale had 144 students in the sixth grade, but only 32 in the 12th grade. Other BASIS schools show a similar pattern."  But BASIS explains that the cohort classes in some of these instances were small to begin with.  Who to believe?

http://www.kpho.com/story/29731806/basis-schools-fight-criticism-work-to-increase-student-retention[/quote]

The person who made the comment that the article was very one sided - against BASIS.
The person who pointed out that this year there are 86 kids in the senior class at BASIS Scottsdale, one of the first BASIS schools ever founded - in 1998 I think.

If that is true, I think it is evidence that they can grow their graduating classes, and they do try to grow them - at least in Arizona, but clearly it is going to be a gradual process in DC.  Especially because BASIS is constantly trashed here, and it is going to take some time for risk averse high SES parents to keep their kids there for high school when they have the option of other schools with established track records for kids like theirs - Walls and Wilson.

Latin's college admissions have not been that great for their first three years but in those initial early years they had the same pattern going on - kids would leave for high school to go private or to Walls or Wilson.  They seem to have turned their corner - but they were founded in 2007.  We were founded in 2012, not just with one baby class of 5th graders, but we accepted everyone who applied 5th-8th.  So our first graduating classes will not have had the entire BASIS education to begin with....

although at least we have gotten to the point (finally!) on this board where most agree that as MS options go in Washington DC, unless you are zoned for Deal or win the lottery for Washington Latin, BASIS is a good option for MS - and I think we can all agree that we need more good options for MS here in Washington DC......... "Alice Deal for all" is never going to become the reality.[/quote]

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