When will waitlist info come out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waitlist for Latin 1 and Latin 2 is 429 and 338. That is crazy long.

The BASIS waitlist jumped too. By a lot.

Tough year.

[Anonymous]

My theory: more families who like Latin and Basis are staying in places Shaw and Petworth for DCPS elementary, and then trying for Latin/Basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My theory: more families who like Latin and Basis are staying in places Shaw and Petworth for DCPS elementary, and then trying for Latin/Basis.

I agree. I'm even seeing people stick with Langley through 4th.

[Anonymous]

Taking a look at which non-application schools seriously undermatched:

Social Justice
Capital Village
Harmony
Two Rivers Middle
Meridian
Hope Tolson
Bethune-- great opportunity if you need a PK3 seat!
Paul middle school
SSMA

[Anonymous]

Lots more schools with equitable access set asides this year.

Brent did it in an interesting way - it doesn't show up as its own set aside but instead as a preference in the general lottery. Haven't found another school like that yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

So much interesting stuff in here! Looks like Banneker only matched 245 of its 260 offered seats-- maybe time to plead your case? McKinley came in a little bit under as well.

It was a brutal year for getting into DCI from non-feeders.

Not too bad a year to get into Seaton OOB, interestingly.

Two Rivers middle is really undermatched-- they offered 60 seats (!) and only filled 37.

I noticed DCI as well. Like < 10 spots!

+1. Impossible to get in unless you are in a feeder. Almost 100% of feeder kids are tracking to DCI including all the high performing kids. This year continues that upward trend pattern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlist for Latin 1 and Latin 2 is 429 and 338. That is crazy long.

BASIS and Latin 2nd St waitlists about 25% higher than last year, Latin Cooper 50% higher. Wow.

Not surprised because middle school seats at acceptable schools are few and lots more competition each year as more families EOTP come up the chain needing seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots more schools with equitable access set asides this year.

Brent did it in an interesting way - it doesn't show up as its own set aside but instead as a preference in the general lottery. Haven't found another school like that yet.

Also seeing Garrison, Hearst, Mann, Payne. All after IB sibling attending and IB sibling offered. Mann matched 0 through equitable access.

Anyone have the link to the spreadsheet version of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My theory: more families who like Latin and Basis are staying in places Shaw and Petworth for DCPS elementary, and then trying for Latin/Basis.

That’s a huge mistake as competition for seats increases at both schools every year and your chances significantly decreases each passing year. Odds are not in your favor.

Statistically better to move to the burbs for much better elementary and guaranteed pyramid thru high school because you will be shut out in middle. It’s a numbers game and that is the reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My theory: more families who like Latin and Basis are staying in places Shaw and Petworth for DCPS elementary, and then trying for Latin/Basis.

That’s a huge mistake as competition for seats increases at both schools every year and your chances significantly decreases each passing year. Odds are not in your favor.

Statistically better to move to the burbs for much better elementary and guaranteed pyramid thru high school because you will be shut out in middle. It’s a numbers game and that is the reality.

What are you deigning to visit this forum full of city dwellers?

[Anonymous]

Much bigger wait-list at SWWFS for 6th grade this year (they accepted 33 and have 175 on the wait-list). ?more People are looking for an acceptable middle school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My theory: more families who like Latin and Basis are staying in places Shaw and Petworth for DCPS elementary, and then trying for Latin/Basis.

That’s a huge mistake as competition for seats increases at both schools every year and your chances significantly decreases each passing year. Odds are not in your favor.

Statistically better to move to the burbs for much better elementary and guaranteed pyramid thru high school because you will be shut out in middle. It’s a numbers game and that is the reality.

What are you deigning to visit this forum full of city dwellers?

I’m a city dweller and considering moving to the burbs if I need to and above is correct. You know there are many families like us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots more schools with equitable access set asides this year.

Brent did it in an interesting way - it doesn't show up as its own set aside but instead as a preference in the general lottery. Haven't found another school like that yet.

I think DCB does it this way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots more schools with equitable access set asides this year.

Brent did it in an interesting way - it doesn't show up as its own set aside but instead as a preference in the general lottery. Haven't found another school like that yet.

I think DCB does it this way.

Actually looks like not this year .. I think last year it was done as a preference but maybe not.

[Anonymous]

OK, DCI feeder data. Overall this indicates that there is a little bit of room for non-feeder kids, but not very much, and if don't have some kind of preference it's tremendously unlikely.

Yu Ying: 70 allocated slots at DCI (basing these on the presentation I saw at a DCI open house). 48 YY kids matched with DCI (15 were siblings). Nobody waitlisted. For the non-YY Chinese track, 8 seats offered and matched, 5 siblings and 3 no preference.

Stokes French: 20 seats at DCI. At Brookland, 10 matches and 8 kids waitlisted. 6 matches were siblings. At East End, 10 matches and 2 waitlisted, none were siblings. For non-feeder French, 2 seats offered and matched, both siblings.

Stokes Spanish: 20 seats at DCI. At Brookland, 16 matches and 2 waitlisted. 6 were siblings. At East End, 4 matches and 0 waitlisted, none siblings. I'm curious why the French was 10/10 and the Spanish split 16/4, I guess they pre-set it based on what they expect the demand to be?

MV: 70 slots at DCI. 56 DCI seats offered at 54 matched. 8 were siblings. So that indicates 2 kids could have matched with DCI, but didn't.

LAMB: 50 slots at DCI. 34 seats offered, 33 matches (14 siblings).

DCB: 50 slots at DCI. 50 matches (24 were siblings) and 8 waitlisted.

For non-feeder Spanish, 3 seats offered and matched, all siblings.
It will be interesting to cross this data with the OSSE enrollment audit data to see the size of the 5th grade classes.

It's also interesting how the special DCI preferences "Sibling Attending - DCI Member" and "Sibling Offered - DCI Member" seem to not be utilized at all.