Lottery for Rising 5th Graders

[Anonymous]

If you are in a DCI feeder, can you lottery for the other DCI language paths for 6th? Like if you are in 5th at DCB and worry you won't get a Spanish seat, can you apply for DCI French and Mandarin? If yes and you get in via another track, would they let you take the appropriate Spanish class anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in a DCI feeder, can you lottery for the other DCI language paths for 6th? Like if you are in 5th at DCB and worry you won't get a Spanish seat, can you apply for DCI French and Mandarin? If yes and you get in via another track, would they let you take the appropriate Spanish class anyway?

I think you have to stay in your track to have feeder preference.

[Anonymous]

Choose Basis if your kid is academically advanced or Latin if your kid isn’t. If you don’t get into either, move to the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in a DCI feeder, can you lottery for the other DCI language paths for 6th? Like if you are in 5th at DCB and worry you won't get a Spanish seat, can you apply for DCI French and Mandarin? If yes and you get in via another track, would they let you take the appropriate Spanish class anyway?

You can lottery for other language paths but you can't take appropriate Spanish classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in a DCI feeder, can you lottery for the other DCI language paths for 6th? Like if you are in 5th at DCB and worry you won't get a Spanish seat, can you apply for DCI French and Mandarin? If yes and you get in via another track, would they let you take the appropriate Spanish class anyway?

You can lottery for other language paths but you can't take appropriate Spanish classes.

You also don't get feeder priority for your other language path lottery spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Choose Basis if your kid is academically advanced or Latin if your kid isn’t. If you don’t get into either, move to the burbs.

Bingo.

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Anonymous wrote:You could lottery for Jackson Reed feeders. If your kid has a language interest, for DCI feeder.

DCI is 6th grade lottery

Ooops! Sorry I see you said DCI FEEDER.

Be careful with this. Even getting into a DCI feeder still could mean relatively low chances of getting into DCI. Look at, for example, the number of DCI spots available for DCB relative to the number of DCB 5th graders.

This year DCB's 5th grade class will all get DCI spots. There are more spots than 5th graders. Maybe you are thinking of younger grades?

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Anonymous wrote:You could lottery for Jackson Reed feeders. If your kid has a language interest, for DCI feeder.

DCI is 6th grade lottery

Ooops! Sorry I see you said DCI FEEDER.

Be careful with this. Even getting into a DCI feeder still could mean relatively low chances of getting into DCI. Look at, for example, the number of DCI spots available for DCB relative to the number of DCB 5th graders.

This year DCB's 5th grade class will all get DCI spots. There are more spots than 5th graders. Maybe you are thinking of younger grades?

Current third graders are the first expanded class.

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Anonymous wrote:You could lottery for Jackson Reed feeders. If your kid has a language interest, for DCI feeder.

DCI is 6th grade lottery

Ooops! Sorry I see you said DCI FEEDER.

Be careful with this. Even getting into a DCI feeder still could mean relatively low chances of getting into DCI. Look at, for example, the number of DCI spots available for DCB relative to the number of DCB 5th graders.

This year DCB's 5th grade class will all get DCI spots. There are more spots than 5th graders. Maybe you are thinking of younger grades?

Current third graders are the first expanded class.

Oh interesting - PP here. I see that there are 50 DCI spots guaranteed for DCB and I thought there were currently more than 50 DCB 5th graders.

Thanks for clarifying.

[Anonymous]

I think other Spanish feeders get to use any spots not used by DCB kids? Not sure, I could be wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Choose Basis if your kid is academically advanced or Latin if your kid isn’t. If you don’t get into either, move to the burbs.

Disagree. If you don't get into a school you want/with a good feeder pattern for 5th, try again for 6th. Then if it doesn't work out, move where you have an inbounds right to attend - whether that's within the Disrict or the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think other Spanish feeders get to use any spots not used by DCB kids? Not sure, I could be wrong.

Yes, any unused seats by one feeder school goes to the other feeder schools if they need it. That is why there is no chance at all for a spanish seat if you are not from a feeder.

BTW, a few feeder schools have already expanded and DCI anticipates that they will have enough seats for all schools in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, lottery for feeders. Hardy feeders, Stuart Hobson feeders if that's appealing to you, John Francis feeders.

Deal feeders are the least likely to take people. SH and Francis feeders are super likely, bc those schools send LOTS of kids to Latin and BASIS and spots open up.


Loved this last year, got a spot at BASIS and one at a Francis feeder.

Good luck!

Yeah, it's next to impossible to lottery into a Deal feeder for 5th. As far as I can tell from DCPS statistics, the only school to offer any lottery spots for 5th over the past six academic years was Shepherd in 2020-21 (pandemic-affected year), which offered three spots.

[Anonymous]

You can also lottery for the other language tracks but its without a special preference and its thus not really a backup option. French typically has some no preference spots and Chinese is a reasonably viable lottery choice without a preference. But this does not really help unless you want to switch tracks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can also lottery for the other language tracks but its without a special preference and its thus not really a backup option. French typically has some no preference spots and Chinese is a reasonably viable lottery choice without a preference. But this does not really help unless you want to switch tracks.

Even the French and Chinese seats are very competitive if you look at waitlist data. DCI only had 2 french seats and 8 chinese seats last year for non-feeders.

More and more feeder kids from all languages are tracking to DCI as the school continues its upward trajectory on getting better every year.