Rock Creek Forest immersion wait list

[Anonymous]

Hello! I am looking for information about how far into the wait list Rock Creek Forest’s Spanish immersion program has gone the last few years for incoming kindergarten - and when those numbers on the wait list were invited (especially if they were before or after school start in the fall). I will need to make some decisions including a possible move, and it would be very helpful to have a better sense of our chances of getting in from the wait list.

[Anonymous]

What number are you on the waitlist?

[Anonymous]

There’s another thread on this. Your chances are good under 30.

[Anonymous]

When you say chances are good under 30, is that before or after school start? When is there the most movement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you say chances are good under 30, is that before or after school start? When is there the most movement?

Just my experience with the last couple of years, I’d say the first 30 (or so) have a good chance to get in right up to the end of summer. Higher numbers will get in later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you say chances are good under 30, is that before or after school start? When is there the most movement?

If you call the office, they will tell you how far they got off the waitlist in previous years.

[Anonymous]

For RCF, once school begins, from observation, the chances of more WL movement are slim. The classes seem stable at that point. Varies from year to year though.

A lot of people will check every box available to them in the immersion form just because they can—even if they’re almost an hour away from the school—so if you have a lower WL number, there’s hope. How high a number is always the great mystery and varies year to year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you say chances are good under 30, is that before or after school start? When is there the most movement?

Just my experience with the last couple of years, I’d say the first 30 (or so) have a good chance to get in right up to the end of summer. Higher numbers will get in later.

This doesn’t sound like RCF. OP is asking about RCF in particular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you say chances are good under 30, is that before or after school start? When is there the most movement?

Just my experience with the last couple of years, I’d say the first 30 (or so) have a good chance to get in right up to the end of summer. Higher numbers will get in later.

This doesn’t sound like RCF. OP is asking about RCF in particular.

Well I’m quite sure RCF got to the early 30s before school started in 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For RCF, once school begins, from observation, the chances of more WL movement are slim. The classes seem stable at that point. Varies from year to year though.

A lot of people will check every box available to them in the immersion form just because they can—even if they’re almost an hour away from the school—so if you have a lower WL number, there’s hope. How high a number is always the great mystery and varies year to year.

Really? That would be surprising if nobody decided the program wasn’t a good fit for their kid. I can’t speak to RCF specifically for this but people often say the WL moves faster after the year starts because people are more likely to decline the spot once their kid has started school. Of course, that might only be a couple of actual vacancies out of 48 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you say chances are good under 30, is that before or after school start? When is there the most movement?

If you call the office, they will tell you how far they got off the waitlist in previous years.

+1 for calling especially if OP is making decisions based on speculation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For RCF, once school begins, from observation, the chances of more WL movement are slim. The classes seem stable at that point. Varies from year to year though.

A lot of people will check every box available to them in the immersion form just because they can—even if they’re almost an hour away from the school—so if you have a lower WL number, there’s hope. How high a number is always the great mystery and varies year to year.

Really? That would be surprising if nobody decided the program wasn’t a good fit for their kid. I can’t speak to RCF specifically for this but people often say the WL moves faster after the year starts because people are more likely to decline the spot once their kid has started school. Of course, that might only be a couple of actual vacancies out of 48 kids.

As I said, from my observation, chances seem slim (not nonexistent) when the school year begins.

And to the PP about what the high number is—like I said, it varies from year to year which is probably why they are vague about what the chances are at a given WL number. I would guess it mostly depends on how many students on that WL live really far away or already speak Spanish at home.