2024 Lottery Results

[Anonymous]

In at Basis, #9 at a DCPS school with a better feeder (and one that went very slightly past 9 last year into their waitlist). We shall see.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are waitlisted #3 for a school even with sibling preference.

Is that #3 in the sibling preference or overall?

Are there two other siblings parents waiting to get in ahead of us or is it #3 regardless of anything?

If you are #3 with sibling preference the other kids ahead of you also have siblings.

Or they might have a preference higher than sibling. One thing to note, poster ranked #3, is that other people can jump ahead of you if they have a higher preference. So depending on your situation, you might see your number go to 4, 5, etc.

[Anonymous]

In at Walls, my 8th grader’s first choice. We are thrilled.

[Anonymous]

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

I empathize. We were shut out for 9th grade too. Do you have a workable inbounds option?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are waitlisted #3 for a school even with sibling preference.

Is that #3 in the sibling preference or overall?

Are there two other siblings parents waiting to get in ahead of us or is it #3 regardless of anything?

If you are #3 with sibling preference the other kids ahead of you also have siblings.

Or they might have a preference higher than sibling. One thing to note, poster ranked #3, is that other people can jump ahead of you if they have a higher preference. So depending on your situation, you might see your number go to 4, 5, etc.

There’s no preference higher than sibling.

[Anonymous]

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

Very curious if this will make more families dip their toes in at a DCPS high school they would have otherwise not considered. Getting a private school plan in place or moving in 5 months is not going to work for anybody.

For those of us who did not do the lottery, and I forget every year - when/where are the results posted by school so you can see the waitlist length?

[Anonymous]

Lowest waitlist number is 25 at Key ES so basically not getting in anywhere else (PK4). It’s okay bc I’m in a good school now, was just trying to change for the upper grades. On to next year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are waitlisted #3 for a school even with sibling preference.

Is that #3 in the sibling preference or overall?

Are there two other siblings parents waiting to get in ahead of us or is it #3 regardless of anything?

If you are #3 with sibling preference the other kids ahead of you also have siblings.

Or they might have a preference higher than sibling. One thing to note, poster ranked #3, is that other people can jump ahead of you if they have a higher preference. So depending on your situation, you might see your number go to 4, 5, etc.

There’s no preference higher than sibling.

IB with sibling, if it's a DCPS. But PP doesn't say if it's PK or not -- obviously if it's not PK, IB students don't do the lottery.

I can't remember how proximity preference works, either. Proximity plus sibling would be higher than just sibling though, I'm sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are waitlisted #3 for a school even with sibling preference.

Is that #3 in the sibling preference or overall?

Are there two other siblings parents waiting to get in ahead of us or is it #3 regardless of anything?

If you are #3 with sibling preference the other kids ahead of you also have siblings.

Or they might have a preference higher than sibling. One thing to note, poster ranked #3, is that other people can jump ahead of you if they have a higher preference. So depending on your situation, you might see your number go to 4, 5, etc.

I don’t think that’s right, see here from the Waitlist FAQ on myschooldc:

How waitlists are ordered
Waitlists are ordered by preference group (in-boundary, sibling, etc.) followed by students with no lottery preference for that school. Each group is ordered by random lottery number. Students who apply after the lottery application deadlines are added to waitlists below lottery applicants within the appropriate preference group and are ordered by submission date.

Each school determines which preferences are offered at their school and in what order. This information can be found on each school’s My School DC profile. Click here to learn how lottery preferences work.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know how to find out what the overall lottery number was and whether that number was high or low???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lowest waitlist number is 25 at Key ES so basically not getting in anywhere else (PK4). It’s okay bc I’m in a good school now, was just trying to change for the upper grades. On to next year!

Girl, if you are trying to trade up at PK3, it's going to be a long road of dissastifaction

[Anonymous]

waitlisted #125 at yu ying Pk3 ahahahhaaa

that's ok, i wasn't really sold on the drive and am very skeptical the new building will be ready, but wanted to give little one a shot at a second language. got into my second choice, will be able to walk the little one to school this year and we can see how things go.

[Anonymous]

In the teens for all of the Deal and Hardy feeders for third. Guessing we’ll never win the lottery, but NBD, our EOTP IB has a lot of cool opportunities in upper grades and we have a condo IB for JR when the time comes.

[Anonymous]

In nowhere for 5th grade, but high enough on the waitlist for BASIS that in every previous year, we would have gotten in by August. But cutting it close enough that I still don't love the odds.