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Anonymous
Is there a way to know how many kids have left this year? Is there any additional information about the cuts and how that will impact next year? |
Anonymous
| I'm sure people have had bad experiences, but it's also possible to go there and come out with a good education in at least some areas. I know a few pretty outstanding students and graduates. Would they be the same if they'd gone somewhere else? Very possibly. My point is not to take this one person's words as gospel just because they were angry enough to create a whole post about it in all caps. |
Anonymous
That's hardly a ringing endorsement. |
Anonymous
| The school gets decent reviews from parents I've known who have sent their parents there. Particularly for very young kids. It seems like there is one poster who really has it in for the school and seems to pop up to complain about it every time the school is discussed. |
Anonymous
Please tell us why enrollment is down 50 kids relative to last year. Is that due to one poster? |
Anonymous
Who can say why a school's enrollment changes in any one year? OSSE says the current enrollment is around 530 students, so 50 students would be an 8 percent change. Not enough to really draw any conclusions. Whoever that one poster is, it seems like they've trying for years and do not seem to have much impact. According to myschooldc, the school has received 300+ applications every year dating back to 2017, and never made it through even 20 percent of their waitlist. I'm not an expert on the school and not saying they might not have room to improve, but it seems like a stable enough place. |
Anonymous
What on earth are you talking about. Last year CMI waitlisted 31 kids for PK3 and then made 21 offers. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
But based on applications, they could have had waitlisted over 300 kids. They didn't do that, because they knew from experience that they only had to formally name 31 families on a waitlist, and sure enough it only took 21 offers to fill their class. |
Anonymous
The accountability score is 27th percentile, and less than 25% of the kids are on grade level for ELA. Less than 15% for math. Re-enrollment is quite low at 71.5%. That's pretty bad. Especially considering only 34.2% are at-risk. |
Anonymous
That's not how it works! They don't get to choose a number of families to "formally name". Where did you get that idea? This isn't a selective high school, is that why you're confused? The reason all those people were not waitlisted is that they matched somewhere they ranked higher. And why did they do that? Because CMI didn't impress them. |
Anonymous
Correct. The applications are the number of people who had CMI on their list. The waitlist is the number of people left after the lottery matches are completed. |
Anonymous
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Oh DCUM. Ya gotta love when a defensive administrator jumps in.
The one angry person theory is a nice try, but no. As PPs stated, the waitlist is not curated by the school...it's not invitations to a ball, it's a city-run lottery. Applications have dropped by hundreds over the past few years and they just fired half the staff. Those numbers speak to the real issues. And so does the defensive administrator thinking they can pull the wool over people's eyes with an explanation like that. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
It's not just one poster. It's all of us who saw CMI open to great hype, then coast and fumble for years until starry-eyed preschool parents finally caught on that the academics were weak. Try to evaluate the actual data here. The data says low CAPE scores and declining enrollment. |