Neighborhood transfer: what are the chances to transfer to W/L from Yorktown?

[Anonymous]

We are moving next year and we will likely end up in the W/L boundary. There is a possibility we will end up in DC due to husband's job but likely stay in Arlington. Currently slated for YHS.

Questions:
1. what are the chances we will get in through neighborhood transfer?
2. is there any other way to request a transfer?

I'd rather avoid our son transferring in the middle of 9th grade if we can avoid it.

[Anonymous]

1) Depends on the number of slots and number of applicants.
2) Only other way is to have the new address by summer's end, or to have gotten a lottery spot for IB which is no longer a chance for next year at this point.

[Anonymous]

Not sure I’m following. Your son is currently in 8th grade and your current home is zoned for Yorktown, but you may be moving into the W-L zone mid-year next year so you would like him to start at W-L next year in case that happens?

If so, there is pretty much zero chance of that happening. You already missed the IB lottery (which always had a long waitlist), so that isn’t an option. You still have a couple of days left to enter the neighborhood transfer lottery, but preference for that is being given to Wakefield over Yorktown due to overcrowding at Wakefield so the odds of getting a neighborhood transfer from Yorktown are exceedingly low (everyone I know who is zoned for Wakefield and who applied for IB but didn’t get in has entered the neighborhood transfer lottery).

[Anonymous]

I think they are letting Bvld Manor kids transfer in, so there is precedent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I’m following. Your son is currently in 8th grade and your current home is zoned for Yorktown, but you may be moving into the W-L zone mid-year next year so you would like him to start at W-L next year in case that happens?

If so, there is pretty much zero chance of that happening. You already missed the IB lottery (which always had a long waitlist), so that isn’t an option. You still have a couple of days left to enter the neighborhood transfer lottery, but preference for that is being given to Wakefield over Yorktown due to overcrowding at Wakefield so the odds of getting a neighborhood transfer from Yorktown are exceedingly low (everyone I know who is zoned for Wakefield and who applied for IB but didn’t get in has entered the neighborhood transfer lottery).

I thought that everyone who applied to IB got in this year. DS got in for IB but turned it down. Now he’s applying for transfer. We’ll see.

[Anonymous]

IB is capped at 115 student transfers (lottery finished) and there are 60 neighborhood transfers available. I think that's a lot. You have until March 11 to apply for the neighborhood transfer.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-02-09-Annual-Update-FINAL.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they are letting Bvld Manor kids transfer in, so there is precedent.

That's a specific privilege granted to Boulevard Manor because of their whining about their kids being separated from their middle school friends after the last boundary change. That special consideration isn't granted to just anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I’m following. Your son is currently in 8th grade and your current home is zoned for Yorktown, but you may be moving into the W-L zone mid-year next year so you would like him to start at W-L next year in case that happens?

If so, there is pretty much zero chance of that happening. You already missed the IB lottery (which always had a long waitlist), so that isn’t an option. You still have a couple of days left to enter the neighborhood transfer lottery, but preference for that is being given to Wakefield over Yorktown due to overcrowding at Wakefield so the odds of getting a neighborhood transfer from Yorktown are exceedingly low (everyone I know who is zoned for Wakefield and who applied for IB but didn’t get in has entered the neighborhood transfer lottery).

I thought that everyone who applied to IB got in this year. DS got in for IB but turned it down. Now he’s applying for transfer. We’ll see.

Where did you hear everyone got in for IB? Usually the waitlist is around 70-100 students.

[Anonymous]

Contact the registrar at W-L and ask her your questions. We found her to be super helpful in telling us our options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I’m following. Your son is currently in 8th grade and your current home is zoned for Yorktown, but you may be moving into the W-L zone mid-year next year so you would like him to start at W-L next year in case that happens?

If so, there is pretty much zero chance of that happening. You already missed the IB lottery (which always had a long waitlist), so that isn’t an option. You still have a couple of days left to enter the neighborhood transfer lottery, but preference for that is being given to Wakefield over Yorktown due to overcrowding at Wakefield so the odds of getting a neighborhood transfer from Yorktown are exceedingly low (everyone I know who is zoned for Wakefield and who applied for IB but didn’t get in has entered the neighborhood transfer lottery).

I thought that everyone who applied to IB got in this year. DS got in for IB but turned it down. Now he’s applying for transfer. We’ll see.

During the lottery, they announced that 58 students were waitlisted for 9th grade IB.