Lottery results are up
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Anonymous
+1. Having a good neighborhood school makes life so much easier and better during the elementary years. I would much rather do this than commute to a far school. |
Anonymous
Financial aid is so generous at DMV private schools I wonder who is actually priced out. |
Anonymous
They are different schools with different missions. Why should they have standardized processes? |
Anonymous
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Waitlisted #15 at both Mann and Janney (no preference) for PK4. Based on historic waitlist movement, looks like we might have a chance at Mann. I'm in no way optimistic about Janney. Guess we'll see how things progress over the summer.
That said, we matched at Key for PK4 (no preference). Pleasantly surprised and excited about the match. I think our kid would be happy at Key, so no complaints on our end either way. |
Anonymous
| Does anyone have any info on how the stokes waitlist moves beyond what’s available re historical data? Ie I’ve already learned that there’s a lot of the French list that’s dependent on how the Spanish list moves, which was perhaps something I could have deduced but didn’t |
Anonymous
+1. Banneker has been a tough admit for years. The people posting about Banneker on DCUM tend to be 7-10 years out of date, imo. |
Anonymous
It was the swing space. Now that there is a beautiful new building and outdoor space, I doubt you will get in. MV8 has typically been much more in demand than MVP. If you ranked MVP also, you will likely have better chance. |
Anonymous
Montessori schools tend to lose people in 1st because their model goes in 3-year cycles. And they need lots of 1st graders because it's harder to recruit older kids to Montessori so they never have as many 3rd grade applicants as they'd like to. |
Anonymous
That makes theoretical sense, but doesn't really fit with the data. Lee Montessori Brookland has a waitlist of at least 25 kids (and no matches) for 1st grade every single year. Based on their other numbers (35 on ITDS, 20 on Garrison, etc) I'd say they're right that this kid has a not-great lottery number, not even in the top half. And yet, matched at Lee? Based on those other numbers, I'd expect a Lee waitlist number in the double digits. Looking more closely at the data, the waitlist for 1st for Lee has been shrinking every year - 5 years ago it was in the 60s, 4 years ago in the 50s, 3 years ago in the 40s, 2 years ago in the 30s, last year it was 25. Steady decline. And based on the combo of numbers posted above, I'd put money on it being in the single digits this year. Demand for this school (or at least, for 1st grade at this school) is definitely dropping. |
Anonymous
 Congratulations!! feels good to win sometimes right?
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Anonymous
Even all the way back to the SY14-15 lottery, Banneker had 754 students apply for 160 seats (21% matched). Walls had 1097 apply for 139 seats (13% matched). Last year it was 1159 applicants for 254 seats (22% matched) at Banneker and 1361 applicants for 190 seats (14% matched) at Walls. Banneker has been competitive for a long time. |
Anonymous
| Any chance for 4th grade at Oyster, with number 35? |
Anonymous
I've never really been sure whether that data is how many of those kids actually completed the application process, or just how many listed it in total. |
Anonymous
We matched at Key for PK4 last year with no preference of any kind - and were surprised and thrilled too! we visited, it looks lovely! (if a bit noisy - it's directly in the DCA flight path and our playground time was LOUD, felt like a flight was buzzing us LOW every 10 min or so) ...until we realized that the commute would KILL us - unless you live in the Georgetown or Palisades area, Key isn't actually "on the way" to anywhere, it would be a long out of the way drive (no good public transportation option) every day. And the on-site PK aftercare isn't guaranteed (there's a waitlist), and the only other nearby aftercare options are PRICEY - pricey enough that in the end we realized Key was actually more expensive than the very good private school that also accepted us with financial aid. And even if you want to see about organizing a parent-funded bus...there are only a handful of OOB parents and the school won't tell you what areas they're in, let alone give you any of their contact info before enrollment (we asked). So that was kind of a high...followed by a crash. It was heartbreaking, but we had to turn it down. |
Anonymous
| (matched at Key for PK4 last year, that is) |