Shut out from charter lotteries

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Anonymous wrote:We have a ridiculous decision tree, with moving at the very bottom -- we'll probably give our local DCPS (Cooke) a shot first.

are you any wait lists, like appletree, maybe?

Appletree has already had their lottery, but Bridges' deadline is still a week or two away.

I'd go to Cooke over Appletree or Bridges. There are so many middle-class neighborhood parents who are probably going to Cooke for PS-3 this fall (even more than last year) that I think you'll find Cooke to be a very nice place for your child. Even if your decision tree eventually ends up with moving, why not give Cooke a chance for a few year and wait to move when the market is not so bad for selling.

Like I said, moving's at the bottom of the tree (we *love* our apartment, neighbors, and neighborhood), something we'll likely turn to only if we don't have a charter/OOB/private option that we're really excited about and we've decided that Cooke won't work for us -- can't see us getting to that point before K or 1.

We'd also go Cooke over Appletree or Bridges (not for reasons that ought to add fuel to any pissing contest over which the best school is, but because the advantages of neighborhood grounding and multi-year continuity pretty well answer the question of which is the best school for us).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We have a ridiculous decision tree, with moving at the very bottom -- we'll probably give our local DCPS (Cooke) a shot first.

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UMMMM....did you get into Cooke? They have a pretty long waitlist too.

I think this poster is in-boundary, so no need to worry about the lottery at K and up. That said, did Cook have a waitlist for in-boundary families for pre-k and/or pre-S (I am not in boundary, just curious)?

If I remember correctly, only one IB family got waitlisted for PS - they were bumped by some OOB families with sibling preference.

In boundary kids do not get bumped for OOB with sibling preference. The order of preference is:

In-boundary with sibling at the school
In-boundary no sibling at the school
Out-of-boundary with sibling at the school
Out-of-boundary with distance preference
general out of boundary

[Anonymous]

Likely the In boundary at Cooke was admitted to a higher ranked school, so appeared first on the Cooke wait list.

[Anonymous]

The IB family on the waitlist at Cooke was accepted elsewhere at the school they had ranked higher.

[Anonymous]

To the person who posted about the Catholic school, would you mind sharing the name of the school? I've been looking for a good one in DC with strong academics.