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Anonymous wrote:Very few Ross families go private. A handful go to charters for 5th grade. Most of those who remain are heading to Francis Stevens. Some move for Deal/Wilson or MCPS.

Not true. The wealthier parents start leaving after kindergarten for private when the classes get really big.

Milton has a stop right near Ross, several kids are going to middle school there.

If you're talking about Milton Gottesman, parents who decide to send their kids there are often heavily weighting Jewish cultural/religious factors, and those factors don't apply to every Ross student. Milton has advantages, but it's not going to be weighted equally by everyone, and in this case should be considered a bit of an outlier.

They give a lot of aid - so parents who would not otherwise consider day school, but need a private, like many Ross parents, go private. Not an outlier.

But are any families really leaving for Milton? In the past few years I know of only one family.

we have been at the school 5 years. Only know three families that went private. Teo to WIS. One catholic.. Don’t know any who went to Milton. Not to say there haven’t been a couple but I doubt there sre many.

Plenty leave for the Nwdc and Maryland burbs. Particularly with pk3 being gone-the incentive to stick around Dupont with kids diminishes.

Are any of the people commenting here actual Ross families? The claims of mass exodus for XYZ reason doesn't match my experience at all. But it matches the stereotypes so it's hard to tell what's an assumption or what's truth. The truth seems to be enough families are staying that there isn't room and they needed to cut PK3.

Yup. We left after k.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few Ross families go private. A handful go to charters for 5th grade. Most of those who remain are heading to Francis Stevens. Some move for Deal/Wilson or MCPS.

Not true. The wealthier parents start leaving after kindergarten for private when the classes get really big.

Milton has a stop right near Ross, several kids are going to middle school there.

If you're talking about Milton Gottesman, parents who decide to send their kids there are often heavily weighting Jewish cultural/religious factors, and those factors don't apply to every Ross student. Milton has advantages, but it's not going to be weighted equally by everyone, and in this case should be considered a bit of an outlier.

They give a lot of aid - so parents who would not otherwise consider day school, but need a private, like many Ross parents, go private. Not an outlier.

But are any families really leaving for Milton? In the past few years I know of only one family.

we have been at the school 5 years. Only know three families that went private. Teo to WIS. One catholic.. Don’t know any who went to Milton. Not to say there haven’t been a couple but I doubt there sre many.

Plenty leave for the Nwdc and Maryland burbs. Particularly with pk3 being gone-the incentive to stick around Dupont with kids diminishes.

Are any of the people commenting here actual Ross families? The claims of mass exodus for XYZ reason doesn't match my experience at all. But it matches the stereotypes so it's hard to tell what's an assumption or what's truth. The truth seems to be enough families are staying that there isn't room and they needed to cut PK3.

Yup. We left after k.

Where do they go for 5th grade?

Ross parent here. In our experience few families leave before the end of 4th grade unless moving interstate.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few Ross families go private. A handful go to charters for 5th grade. Most of those who remain are heading to Francis Stevens. Some move for Deal/Wilson or MCPS.

Not true. The wealthier parents start leaving after kindergarten for private when the classes get really big.

Milton has a stop right near Ross, several kids are going to middle school there.

If you're talking about Milton Gottesman, parents who decide to send their kids there are often heavily weighting Jewish cultural/religious factors, and those factors don't apply to every Ross student. Milton has advantages, but it's not going to be weighted equally by everyone, and in this case should be considered a bit of an outlier.

They give a lot of aid - so parents who would not otherwise consider day school, but need a private, like many Ross parents, go private. Not an outlier.

But are any families really leaving for Milton? In the past few years I know of only one family.

we have been at the school 5 years. Only know three families that went private. Teo to WIS. One catholic.. Don’t know any who went to Milton. Not to say there haven’t been a couple but I doubt there sre many.

Plenty leave for the Nwdc and Maryland burbs. Particularly with pk3 being gone-the incentive to stick around Dupont with kids diminishes.

Are any of the people commenting here actual Ross families? The claims of mass exodus for XYZ reason doesn't match my experience at all. But it matches the stereotypes so it's hard to tell what's an assumption or what's truth. The truth seems to be enough families are staying that there isn't room and they needed to cut PK3.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few Ross families go private. A handful go to charters for 5th grade. Most of those who remain are heading to Francis Stevens. Some move for Deal/Wilson or MCPS.

Not true. The wealthier parents start leaving after kindergarten for private when the classes get really big.

Milton has a stop right near Ross, several kids are going to middle school there.

If you're talking about Milton Gottesman, parents who decide to send their kids there are often heavily weighting Jewish cultural/religious factors, and those factors don't apply to every Ross student. Milton has advantages, but it's not going to be weighted equally by everyone, and in this case should be considered a bit of an outlier.

They give a lot of aid - so parents who would not otherwise consider day school, but need a private, like many Ross parents, go private. Not an outlier.

But are any families really leaving for Milton? In the past few years I know of only one family.

we have been at the school 5 years. Only know three families that went private. Teo to WIS. One catholic.. Don’t know any who went to Milton. Not to say there haven’t been a couple but I doubt there sre many.

Plenty leave for the Nwdc and Maryland burbs. Particularly with pk3 being gone-the incentive to stick around Dupont with kids diminishes.

No they indicate a school that’s improving year on year. Talk to families with kid in the upper years. They are pretty happy with the school. More kids staying plus those joining at 6th from Ross and Thomson.

Here, the test scores reveal that a large percentage of families are leaving before MS.

Test scores are a lagging indicator of school quality.

What is interesting is that 90% and 80% of students from Ross are proficient or advanced in literacy and mathematics. Basically all students in the classroom are proficient. SWW@FS's scores from last year's PARCC 39% and 43%. That means not even half are proficient. As a parent, I would not be happy nor content with my child going from a classroom full of proficient/advanced students to a classroom that is not even half proficient. What do you think?

How many in the current fifth grade will go to FS?

Trend in recent years is not more leaving for private. It’s more studying through 5th and heading to Francis Stevens for middle school years. This year’s 5th grade is the largest for many years.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few Ross families go private. A handful go to charters for 5th grade. Most of those who remain are heading to Francis Stevens. Some move for Deal/Wilson or MCPS.

Not true. The wealthier parents start leaving after kindergarten for private when the classes get really big.

Milton has a stop right near Ross, several kids are going to middle school there.

If you're talking about Milton Gottesman, parents who decide to send their kids there are often heavily weighting Jewish cultural/religious factors, and those factors don't apply to every Ross student. Milton has advantages, but it's not going to be weighted equally by everyone, and in this case should be considered a bit of an outlier.

They give a lot of aid - so parents who would not otherwise consider day school, but need a private, like many Ross parents, go private. Not an outlier.

But are any families really leaving for Milton? In the past few years I know of only one family.

we have been at the school 5 years. Only know three families that went private. Teo to WIS. One catholic.. Don’t know any who went to Milton. Not to say there haven’t been a couple but I doubt there sre many.

Interesting that the middle school is the draw, makes sense.