This assumes that PHX HS is 10th-12th grade. I bet the students that bailed in the 10th grade are pointing to an outlier or two valedictorian examples. I think it would be fair to assume a lot of students in the last quartile are simply above average students that survived.
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Both children got full ride academic scholarships.Īs you mentioned, considering 50% get "cut" from the 6th to the 10th grade, many students were not able to handle to pace. At BASIS they may rank 25th out of 75 students, but go over to their local high school and they just became the class valedictorian.īASIS is not for everyone, but as an option for our family it worked out great. What my child told me is that a quite a few students will stay at BASIS until 10th grade and then with an eye to class rankings transfer to their neighborhood high school. Out of 50 students in my child's graduating class in May they had one appointment to the Naval Academy, 3 to actual Ivy League schools, another 10-12 to places like Stanford, U of Chicago and everyone else got into honors programs at ASU, U of A, NAU or California schools.
If they like a challenge, BASIS is a good school and when they say that 20% of their grads get into elite colleges they are accurate. My child told me that over 50% of the classmates he had in 6th grade were gone by 10th grade. Other charters to look at would be Great Hearts Academies, Chandler Prep or one of the CTAs.īASIS parent here - the rumors about churn and burn are true. It really is going to come down to how your child learns. If extra curricular activities/programs are of interest to your student, I would take a close look at those. Personally, we felt that a kid is only a kid once and putting that kind of pressure on them at an early age just didn't seem worth it.
Parents I know with students at BASIS spend a LOT of their time with tutors and supplementing class time to help their student keep up. Basically if your student is not keeping up with their program, they will drop them. BASIS is a charter.so they can pick and choose whom they let in (they have a lottery for admissions) by weeding out those that do not fit their style of teaching. This is a whole other subject but I am just glad that our kids are finally out of that school.ĬUSD also has the Accelerated Jr High program at Basha HS and some pretty good Honors/AP/IB programs in High School.īASIS? Some people love it, others do not.again, this is going to rely on your child's preferred method of learning. This may have changed.I know our home elementary has declined over the past few years as it focuses primarily on their Mandarin program and the students NOT in that program feel sidelined. That being said.CATS was hit and miss for a lot of students, some excelled in the program, others came back to regular school as (at the time) our home elementary was almost/just as good as their program without the added hassle.
They used to have CATS programs at most of the elementary schools but they were consolidated into KGA a few years ago. If I remember correctly.after both of our kids were extended invitations to KGA.your child will need to take the CATS exam to qualify for the program.
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