moving out of your current DCPS elementary boundary but remaining in school

[Anonymous]

I know a couple of families who moved out of boundaries and they children stayed in the school (Murch). Also kids who went to Murch automatically went to Deal for MS because Murch is feeder school, even if people moved out of boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a couple of families who moved out of boundaries and they children stayed in the school (Murch). Also kids who went to Murch automatically went to Deal for MS because Murch is feeder school, even if people moved out of boundaries.

This may have been the case in the past, it is no longer true at Murch. There is at least one family who moved OOB this year who was told that they cannot return if they do not lottery in for a lower grade. The parents and child(ren) are well liked.

The new rules and pressure of very large numbers of in bounds kids has changed the game for the popular NW schools. Proof of residence has also gotten tougher. They have to take anyone in bounds, one of the only ways to influence class size the other way is to refuse to allow kids who move OOB to return. It's nothing personal, it's supply and demand. Families that START OOB have the freedom to move anywhere. In bounds families do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lie.

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To clarify, do not tell that you moved OOB.

[Anonymous]

We rented in-boundary during pre-k lottery and bought a place out-of-lottery. There was no question my daughter could attend. This was an underenrolled school with pre-k slots still open in September, but I was told this is how the DCPS system works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We rented in-boundary during pre-k lottery and bought a place out-of-lottery. There was no question my daughter could attend. This was an underenrolled school with pre-k slots still open in September, but I was told this is how the DCPS system works.

Geesh, I'm tired. Sorry to be so incoherent. We moved out-of-boundary, and there was no question that my daughter was entitled to attend the school where she was enrolled, even though we moved in between the time of the lottery and the first day of school.

[Anonymous]

but unlike some examples, you entered a preK lottery and "earned" a seat for preK. You did that at a school that in September had seats, so the inboundary preference did not make or break your entrance to the school.

The question posed is whether a student that enters at grade K or above as an in boundary student (or perhaps as a PreK studend who wins the lottery using in boundary preference) would be allowed to stay after moving out of bounds.

Your experience is not directly relevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your experience is not directly relevant.

Fair enough.

[Anonymous]

What happens if you give an employers address plus a PO Box in Wilson district but then are fired? Shouldn't student have to change to real school district?

[Anonymous]

Along similar lines to previous posters, the policy is that you are not eligible to return to your now OOB school without a lottery seat and going to ask about it beforehand won't make it easier for anyone. At the same time, a school principal, within reason, has every interest to ensure continuity. At least at our school it's not about writing checks to the PTA and I hope that's not the rule! That said, to see someone turn a blind eye on your IB/OOB status (because after all you'll theoretically need to submit new documents although you can do so as early as May and then move), you'd probably want to be wanted in some way. If waitlists are very long, you can also easily draw the ire of others who rightfully have a place at their IB school. That would be particularly problematic at the preschool, pre-K level.
A safe way to play it could be to do enter the lottery but also try to stay by mutual agreement. But that's fraught with the danger that the principal can then possibly precisely not turn a blind eye because you're far away on the waitlist and accepting you would raise eyebrows from those watching those lists.
Lastly, this is all a lot easier and informally handled at a school that's a not super, super popular and at a grade-level where lots of changes don't take place anyway. For ES, much easier to sort out if your child is in, say 2nd or 3rd grade, as someone mentioned previously. The school has then already invested a lot in the academic achievement.