Critique my list! (or give thoughts)

[Anonymous]

Usually by now there are a lot of these threads.. maybe I missed them?

Brightwood resident. We do not want our IB.

Currently PK3 student at a Charter in NE. Doing the lottery again (PK4) for potential into a DCPS or different Charter. We are happy with the Charter he is in now.

We are fully aware the DCPS schools are a .001% chance but cant win the lottery without playing. The idea would be the top 3 choice Charter are "better" (maybe not?) than the Charter he is in now and has an actual middle feeder. Current school has no feeder. I am sure DCUM can figure out which one he goes to. It is a good school.

Ranked in order:

LAMB
Yu Ying
DCB
Shepherd Elem
Whittier
Takoma
John Lewis
Lafayette
Murch
Oyster Adams
Cap City Lower
Breakthrough Montessori

[Anonymous]

Why are you doing this at all if you're happy w/ his current charter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you doing this at all if you're happy w/ his current charter?

OP said there is no middle school feeder. I understand that reasoning.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know, it looks so random to me that is hard to tell your priorities.

[Anonymous]

Are the NW DCPS schools actually ranked in the list according to your preference? For example, would you really choose DCB over Murch if choosing just between those two? If not, than adjust the list so it is genuinely ordered by preference.

Anonymous wrote:Usually by now there are a lot of these threads.. maybe I missed them?

Brightwood resident. We do not want our IB.

Currently PK3 student at a Charter in NE. Doing the lottery again (PK4) for potential into a DCPS or different Charter. We are happy with the Charter he is in now.

We are fully aware the DCPS schools are a .001% chance but cant win the lottery without playing. The idea would be the top 3 choice Charter are "better" (maybe not?) than the Charter he is in now and has an actual middle feeder. Current school has no feeder. I am sure DCUM can figure out which one he goes to. It is a good school.

Ranked in order:

LAMB
Yu Ying
DCB
Shepherd Elem
Whittier
Takoma
John Lewis
Lafayette
Murch
Oyster Adams
Cap City Lower
Breakthrough Montessori

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the NW DCPS schools actually ranked in the list according to your preference? For example, would you really choose DCB over Murch if choosing just between those two? If not, than adjust the list so it is genuinely ordered by preference.


OP here: great question. Yes, we would based on the DCI feed and proximity to our house. Commute isn't too big of a concern which is why we have three WOTP schools on the list. But fully aware there is basically 0% chance to get in.

To other question above about priority: feeder, DCPS over a charter (if we don't get one of the top 3). The idea of the "neighborhood school" playground, kids who live close by, etc. Shepherd, Takoma, Whittier, and Lewis are all quite close to us in Brightwood. The WOTP schools are a pipe dream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the NW DCPS schools actually ranked in the list according to your preference? For example, would you really choose DCB over Murch if choosing just between those two? If not, than adjust the list so it is genuinely ordered by preference.


OP here: great question. Yes, we would based on the DCI feed and proximity to our house. Commute isn't too big of a concern which is why we have three WOTP schools on the list. But fully aware there is basically 0% chance to get in.

To other question above about priority: feeder, DCPS over a charter (if we don't get one of the top 3). The idea of the "neighborhood school" playground, kids who live close by, etc. Shepherd, Takoma, Whittier, and Lewis are all quite close to us in Brightwood. The WOTP schools are a pipe dream.

As someone in your neighborhood living the pipe dream, think hard about your relative preferences for Whittier/Takoma/Lewis vs the WOTP schools and make sure they are ranked in the true order of schools you'd want to enroll in so you don't get dropped from waitlists if you match somewhere.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's actually that hard to get into Whittier and Takoma for PK4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the NW DCPS schools actually ranked in the list according to your preference? For example, would you really choose DCB over Murch if choosing just between those two? If not, than adjust the list so it is genuinely ordered by preference.


OP here: great question. Yes, we would based on the DCI feed and proximity to our house. Commute isn't too big of a concern which is why we have three WOTP schools on the list. But fully aware there is basically 0% chance to get in.

To other question above about priority: feeder, DCPS over a charter (if we don't get one of the top 3). The idea of the "neighborhood school" playground, kids who live close by, etc. Shepherd, Takoma, Whittier, and Lewis are all quite close to us in Brightwood. The WOTP schools are a pipe dream.

As someone in your neighborhood living the pipe dream, think hard about your relative preferences for Whittier/Takoma/Lewis vs the WOTP schools and make sure they are ranked in the true order of schools you'd want to enroll in so you don't get dropped from waitlists if you match somewhere.

Yea I’m confused about order of the DCPS schools if you are worried about MS/HS feed.

[Anonymous]

You have zero shot at preK4 in the NW DCPS schools. They can’t even accommodate all of the IB students and the preK slots will be filled with siblings. So it really doesn’t matter what order you put those in. I would not bother including them at all.

[Anonymous]

Oyster Adam
Shepherd Elem
LAMB
Yu Ying
Murch
Lafayette
DCB
Whittier
Takoma
John Lewis
Cap City Lower
Breakthrough Montessori

This is how I will organize them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have zero shot at preK4 in the NW DCPS schools. They can’t even accommodate all of the IB students and the preK slots will be filled with siblings. So it really doesn’t matter what order you put those in. I would not bother including them at all.

Not impossible.

-PP above with a PK4 student at a Deal feeder

[Anonymous]

OP here.

Good point about MS/HS feed. My brain was so focused on "no feed" from current charter that, duh, same MS/HS if we got into Whittier/Takoma versus staying at the charter now. I feel like an idiot.

That changes things. No real reason to leave the charter to attend Whittier or Takoma unless we think those are better options until 5th grade, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have zero shot at preK4 in the NW DCPS schools. They can’t even accommodate all of the IB students and the preK slots will be filled with siblings. So it really doesn’t matter what order you put those in. I would not bother including them at all.

Not impossible.

-PP above with a PK4 student at a Deal feeder

You are PK4 OOB, no sibling, no Spanish dom at one of the above schools? I guess I could maybe see Shepherd, but even that seems unlikely for PK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have zero shot at preK4 in the NW DCPS schools. They can’t even accommodate all of the IB students and the preK slots will be filled with siblings. So it really doesn’t matter what order you put those in. I would not bother including them at all.

Not impossible.

-PP above with a PK4 student at a Deal feeder

You are PK4 OOB, no sibling, no Spanish dom at one of the above schools? I guess I could maybe see Shepherd, but even that seems unlikely for PK.

Yes. Not Shepherd. And we actually got two different offers last year, one on match day and one later.