Any schools Waitlist data shock you?
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Anonymous
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CapCity Lower School used to have a waitlist 100+ for PK3.
This year it was single digita. |
Anonymous
| Mundo. I remember one year my DD had a number greater than 150. |
Anonymous
| Two Rivers middle. Seems like they're expecting a lot of kids to leave. |
Anonymous
Two Rivers Middle is half empty. They've closed two classes already. |
Anonymous
Wow. Offered 60 seats for 6th and only 37 matched. |
Anonymous
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Hill DCPSes have longer waiting lists across the board.
SH feeders looking strong. JO Wilson filled its seats for the first time since the pandemic. Watkins almost filled -- came MUCH closer than last year. Looks like it has been able to halt the death spiral. Ludlow waiting lists longer in every year. 53 kids on their 3rd grade waiting list when just 2 years ago every kid on the waiting list (only 9) got an offer. |
Anonymous
| Banneker this year vs last |
Anonymous
| Sojourner Truth |
Anonymous
| CMI also. Short waitlist even for PK3, and offered 30 seats for 6th |
Anonymous
Yes, this surprised me also, but not really. TR is general appears to be in free fall--the Young ES campus will likely clear their wait lists for all their grades. I understand that there's new leadership in place--but it will take strong leadership a few years to turn the corner and course correct after years of mismanagement. |
Anonymous
What do you mean by "closed two classes"? |
Anonymous
CapCity is extremely close to my house and I toured it this year looking for PK3. After touring and looking at its performance data (especially its subgroup data!!), we chose not to include it on our list nothwithstanding its super convenient location. I was particularly concerned about how (whether?) CapCity is currently teaching math*, and it just didn't seem like a great environment to me... so I am not shocked at the short waitlist and think CC is going to have a really hard time filling their PK3 class this year with that short a waitlist to draw from when matched families opt out. We know a couple families in our neighborhood who matched with CC for PK3, but have decent waitlist numbers at other schools that they are much more interested in. *Yes, I know that doesn't necessarily matter for PK3, but why start at a school you know you are not going to want your kid to continue in after PK if you have better options in the meantime? We had enough "safety" schools on our list that we were confident we were going to get something else we would be happier with for PK3 and beyond, even if we got a crappy lottery number, and we were right on all accounts. (We did get a crappy lottery number and still got into a school that we are much more excited about than CC.) |
Anonymous
They went down a classroom in two middle school grades this year relative to last year. |
Anonymous
It's a lesson to all schools. Keep the PR efforts up if you don't want enrollment to drop. |
Anonymous
The first lottery we did for Pk3 many, many years ago, our MV waitlist number was over 400. How things have changed! |