Is it true you once you start at a DCPS school, you can move but keep your school line-up?

[Anonymous]

Of course, the move would remain within the District's borders.

Is this true? Are there any caveats?

[Anonymous]

I think this is true for schools you entered via lottery, but not if you're there as an IB student.

[Anonymous]

If you enter a school through a lottery placement, you have rights through the feeder pathway as long as you stay enrolled continuously. If you enter a school as an in-boundary student and then move out of boundary, you have the right to stay until the terminal grade at the current school, but lose rights to feeders.

In practice, they don't seem to check and you could probably just keep going along the feeder pattern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is true for schools you entered via lottery, but not if you're there as an IB student.

This is correct. If you get in through the lottery, you’re good forever.

If you are in as an IB student and move, you lose access to the feeder school (which checks out right? You can live in a rental apartment inbound for Janney, move to the Hill when your kid is 4, and still claim rights to JR a decade later.

My understanding is that whether you’re able to stay at the school until the terminal grade is at the principal’s discretion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is true for schools you entered via lottery, but not if you're there as an IB student.

This is correct. If you get in through the lottery, you’re good forever.

If you are in as an IB student and move, you lose access to the feeder school (which checks out right? You can’t live in a rental apartment inbound for Janney, move to the Hill when your kid is 4, and still claim rights to JR a decade later.

My understanding is that whether you’re able to stay at the school until the terminal grade is at the principal’s discretion.

Can’t! Sorry, typo. Fixed and bolded above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is true for schools you entered via lottery, but not if you're there as an IB student.

This is correct. If you get in through the lottery, you’re good forever.

If you are in as an IB student and move, you lose access to the feeder school (which checks out right? You can’t live in a rental apartment inbound for Janney, move to the Hill when your kid is 4, and still claim rights to JR a decade later.

My understanding is that whether you’re able to stay at the school until the terminal grade is at the principal’s discretion.

Can’t! Sorry, typo. Fixed and bolded above.

You actually can. Whether you're supposed to be able to has varied at different points but, at this moment, kids who are enrolled at a DCPS school can automatically enroll at its feeder and because no one at the school knows about/keeps track of how you got in, having originally gotten in IB and then switching your address to OOB is indistinguishable from kids who got in OOB. As a result, in practical terms, the feeder enrollment paperwork asks how you're eligible and if you tick the "attended a feeder" box and did attend the feeder, you're good to go. 100% no follow up.

[Anonymous]

^^ And to be clear, this is NOT a lying scenario. You can list your real address and never once lie. The paperwork does not ask. The school does not ask.

[Anonymous]

There is no mechanism in place to identify whether you entered via lottery or IB. So they have no idea who to kick out after the terminal grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no mechanism in place to identify whether you entered via lottery or IB. So they have no idea who to kick out after the terminal grade.

+100

You can go to the feeder. Registrars have no clue who is from the lottery.