2024 Lottery Results

[Anonymous]

We got lucky!
Matched with DC Bilingual (our second choice) and #4 on waitlist for Stokes French (our first choice). Looking at the data, it seems we have a good enough chance to get Stokes. But I am confused with the sibling preference causing the waitlist numbers to move. We have no preference. Could it be an issue in our case?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got lucky!
Matched with DC Bilingual (our second choice) and #4 on waitlist for Stokes French (our first choice). Looking at the data, it seems we have a good enough chance to get Stokes. But I am confused with the sibling preference causing the waitlist numbers to move. We have no preference. Could it be an issue in our case?

At number four on Stokes list, you are very likely to get in, so do some thinking now about which school you truly prefer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thoughts on Payne vs L-T? In at Payne for PK4, waitlist #11 for L-T.

Assume you are OOB for LT? Surprised the waitlist for PK4 isn't longer. Both are good options, are you already at Payne or just now getting in?

Yes, OOB for L-T. We are at another school on the Hill right now for PK3.

[Anonymous]

Takoma #3 for PK3. Should get cleared yeah?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Takoma #3 for PK3. Should get cleared yeah?

Yes, probably.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can any lottery veterans please shed light into when the waitlist moves? Obviously there would be movement by the enrollment deadline (May 1) but hopefully I don't manically check every day before then..

It's different every year. Some years schools add seats in the summer and then there's a lot of summer movement. But I don't think that's happened in a long while. If there's somewhere you really want your kid to go, be prepared to move in September. Many offers come then.

This is helpful, thanks. But I thought the DC school year starts in late August typically. So are students enrolling from the waitlist after the first day(s) of classes? This would seem to be the case as there is a tab on the waitlist historical data for “offers made by October” but it’s confusing to me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can any lottery veterans please shed light into when the waitlist moves? Obviously there would be movement by the enrollment deadline (May 1) but hopefully I don't manically check every day before then..

It's different every year. Some years schools add seats in the summer and then there's a lot of summer movement. But I don't think that's happened in a long while. If there's somewhere you really want your kid to go, be prepared to move in September. Many offers come then.

This is helpful, thanks. But I thought the DC school year starts in late August typically. So are students enrolling from the waitlist after the first day(s) of classes? This would seem to be the case as there is a tab on the waitlist historical data for “offers made by October” but it’s confusing to me!

Yes, they are offered a seat once another kid doesn't show up to class on the first day of school, and then they go down the list to find someone who wants the seat, which causes shuffling on all of the lists once a kids leaves one school for another.

[Anonymous]

Can you buy/sell/trade spots?

[Anonymous]

Will trade Walls for Dunbar.

[Anonymous]

Yea--BASIS DC!

[Anonymous]

Let me know your thoughts!
Incoming PK3 student

#1 Tyler waitlisted 29 (6 min commute)
#2 Payne waitlisted 31 (6 min commute)
#3 Capitol Hill Montessori MATCH (14 min commute)

[Anonymous]

Sorry to hear this! Do you have a child with 4.0 and extracurriculars? I’m a middle school parent will have to do this in a couple years. It sounds like a brutal process.

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Anonymous wrote:Rising ninth grader. Walls did not interview, Banneker rejected after interview, dismal numbers on the lottery-based schools.

Same all around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can one be waitlisted at MA when rising Deal 9th graders have a preference?

I’m confused - are you IB for MA? If so, you did this wrong. You just enroll at MA, you shouldn’t have done the lottery.

[Anonymous]

OOB match for key kindergarten - 17 minute commute. Current school is ten minutes

Less than 4 on the wait-list for janney, Lafayette, and mann, all closer. 7 at Sheppard (7 minute drive)

We like our elementary but would like to lock in middle school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to hear this! Do you have a child with 4.0 and extracurriculars? I’m a middle school parent will have to do this in a couple years. It sounds like a brutal process.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rising ninth grader. Walls did not interview, Banneker rejected after interview, dismal numbers on the lottery-based schools.

Same all around.

Almost. One A- in 7th grade. Excellent extracurriculars. DC is still sleeping and I am dreading giving the news.