The Lists are In...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lists are in-- so NOW are you comfortable sharing?

Why? I'm just curious where, after all the conversation, people ended up.

We applied PK3, convenience and location were larger factors to us.

Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan
Two Rivers PCS
Lee Montessori
School-Within-School
Thomson Elementary School
Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School
Capital City PCS – Lower School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
Bridges PCS
E.L. Haynes PCS – Kansas Avenue (Elementary School)

(Also, YY, Stokes, LAMB, CM)

If convenience and location are your main criteria, I don't understand your list at all. You're literally all over the city, though skewed a bit eastward, I guess. Do both parents work in the city in widely different locations, and live in a third different location? Or did you use convenience/location for ranking just a few of the 12, then go crazy with the rest?

I see a family living in Petworth, one parent working near Farragut/DuPont, the other on Cap Hill. (SEC/CFPB, perhaps?)

[Anonymous]

Yep. I'm thinking live in Brooklamd- work on hill and downtown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lists are in-- so NOW are you comfortable sharing?

Why? I'm just curious where, after all the conversation, people ended up.

We applied PK3, convenience and location were larger factors to us.

Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan
Two Rivers PCS
Lee Montessori
School-Within-School
Thomson Elementary School
Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School
Capital City PCS – Lower School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
Bridges PCS
E.L. Haynes PCS – Kansas Avenue (Elementary School)

(Also, YY, Stokes, LAMB, CM)

If convenience and location are your main criteria, I don't understand your list at all. You're literally all over the city, though skewed a bit eastward, I guess. Do both parents work in the city in widely different locations, and live in a third different location? Or did you use convenience/location for ranking just a few of the 12, then go crazy with the rest?

I bet they live in Mount Vernon Square or Shaw.

[Anonymous]

Wow, we're all so addicted to the art of speculation at this point that we'll even go on and on supposing where a family lives, when he/she will likely ring in soon to actually answer the question.

[Anonymous]

For PK4.

Inspired Teaching
Capital City
Mundo Verde
Eaton
Powell
Shepherd
Hearst
Lafayette
Lee Montessori
West
Tubman
Cleveland

[Anonymous]

to pp, what did you like about cap city? did the test scores not scare you away? i like exped learning but was nervous about the scores. i never got to visit because the snow storm was the open house i planned on attending and could not fit in the final one they had.

[Anonymous]

PS3

Cleveland Elementary, all in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to pp, what did you like about cap city? did the test scores not scare you away? i like exped learning but was nervous about the scores. i never got to visit because the snow storm was the open house i planned on attending and could not fit in the final one they had.

I liked it last year for PK3 but we didn't get in. I was really thinking more about what would be the right way for my kid to learn than about test scores, and I read somewhere that the low numbers had something to do with the relatively new upper school. It's a short drive for us, the facilities and grounds are gorgeous, I have faith that the upper school will pull up and I love the idea that we can get in somewhere and be done with the lottery for good--or at least a few years.

Diversity in the student population was also a big factor in our household and it's hard to find in schools that are convenient to us. Eaton comes closest and that's why we ranked it above our IB school, Powell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
PS3

Cleveland Elementary, all in.

I hope you live in boundary &/or are willing to do the English track

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to pp, what did you like about cap city? did the test scores not scare you away? i like exped learning but was nervous about the scores. i never got to visit because the snow storm was the open house i planned on attending and could not fit in the final one they had.

I liked it last year for PK3 but we didn't get in. I was really thinking more about what would be the right way for my kid to learn than about test scores, and I read somewhere that the low numbers had something to do with the relatively new upper school. It's a short drive for us, the facilities and grounds are gorgeous, I have faith that the upper school will pull up and I love the idea that we can get in somewhere and be done with the lottery for good--or at least a few years.

Diversity in the student population was also a big factor in our household and it's hard to find in schools that are convenient to us. Eaton comes closest and that's why we ranked it above our IB school, Powell.

Thanks! Makes me wish I had been able to tour. I ranked it way near the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Lots of people are sprinkling in a language immersion here or there. It seems odd, because it is such a commitment for both the kids and parents.

[Anonymous]

For K:

Hearst
Eaton
Murch
Lafayette
Mundo Verde
Janney
Mann
Inspired Teaching School
Cap City
Stoddert
Hyde-Addison
EL Haynes

IB for Powell, and probably would rank it below ITS.

[Anonymous]

Not only is OP all over the map in terms of location, there does not seem to be any rhyme or reason when it comes to teaching philosophy, language immersion/no language, etc. I'm sure OP had his/her own criteria, but I don't see a pattern.

[Anonymous]

PK3

1. School Within a School
2. Mundo Verde
3. Two Rivers
4. Inspired Teaching
5. Peabody
6. Maury
7. Tyler Spanish
8. Capitol Hill Montessori @ Logan
9. Ludlow-Taylor
10. J.O. Wilson
11. Lee Montessori
12. Apple Tree Lincoln Park

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For K:

Hearst
Eaton
Murch
Lafayette
Mundo Verde
Janney
Mann
Inspired Teaching School
Cap City
Stoddert
Hyde-Addison
EL Haynes

IB for Powell, and probably would rank it below ITS.

Wow - and Powell is nowhere on your list. What will you do if you (likely) get shut out and not into a single one of these schools?!?