There are a lot of answers; none of which are perfect. Number of athletes can be manipulated (number of team members vs number of student participants {people playing 2 or more sports})and in some cases it still won't matter. Oak Hill Academy in VA has 150 total students, but also had Rajon Rondo, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley and Josh Smith.
Why not just have all non-traditional schools moved to the SCISA? Cardinal Newman has done amazingly well there. Where did Zion Williamson go??? Turned out pretty well going to a SCISA school, which requires their students to play at least 1 sport and sounds a lot like some of these schools. It would be simple to have ALL non-traditional schools with no attendance boundaries play SCISA. They could still play any SC high school in the regular season.
An attendance multiplier won't necessarily work (see Oak Hill, Spartanburg Day, SVSM, etc) if all of your 600 students were recruited for playing athletics.
These school will sue, because in the end, they need to play in the SCHSL to win state titles to continue to be able to recruit away from the public high schools and make money. Schools like Bishop England, Academic Magnet, etc would also have to move. If you can say to a kid, "Come here, you will play 3A and win possibly 4-6 state titles which will help you get recruited to college..." Would you rather win state titles or not??? If you look at the modern NBA, you will see the answer.
