ATS and Science Focus lotteries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Science Focus really doesn't have a 'lottery'. Unlike ATS, it has a neighborhood zone. Due to kid population in that zone---there are very few spots left for people outside the 'team'. You have to be in Jamestown/Key/Taylor zones to lottery in. If you live in Key--you get automatic entry into ASF because they can't force any family to do immersion. I think there were only 1 or 2 spots last year available for kids not living in the neighborhood zone.

ATS is a county-wide school. This is COMPLETELY different than ASF. It has not in-boundary. It is a true lottery.

Ok so correctiom -- when do familes get notified about results of the ATS countywide lottery and when do families from the Jamestown/taylor cluster find out if they get off the waitlist? And once notifed, how long do you have to decide?

What is wrong with Jamestown/Taylor? If I were in that cluster I wouldn't bother trying to get into ATS or ASF.

I am an ASF parent, btw. If the school is good--pick the one closest to home and the one the neighborhood kids attend. It will make your life much easier.

Let me guess---you read the recent Post article highlighting these schools....

Because Taylor has a mean girl issue, which carries over into Williamsburg MS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Science Focus really doesn't have a 'lottery'. Unlike ATS, it has a neighborhood zone. Due to kid population in that zone---there are very few spots left for people outside the 'team'. You have to be in Jamestown/Key/Taylor zones to lottery in. If you live in Key--you get automatic entry into ASF because they can't force any family to do immersion. I think there were only 1 or 2 spots last year available for kids not living in the neighborhood zone.

ATS is a county-wide school. This is COMPLETELY different than ASF. It has not in-boundary. It is a true lottery.

Ok so correctiom -- when do familes get notified about results of the ATS countywide lottery and when do families from the Jamestown/taylor cluster find out if they get off the waitlist? And once notifed, how long do you have to decide?

What is wrong with Jamestown/Taylor? If I were in that cluster I wouldn't bother trying to get into ATS or ASF.

I am an ASF parent, btw. If the school is good--pick the one closest to home and the one the neighborhood kids attend. It will make your life much easier.

Let me guess---you read the recent Post article highlighting these schools....

Because Taylor has a mean girl issue, which carries over into Williamsburg MS

Really? I have boys so haven't heard this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Science Focus really doesn't have a 'lottery'. Unlike ATS, it has a neighborhood zone. Due to kid population in that zone---there are very few spots left for people outside the 'team'. You have to be in Jamestown/Key/Taylor zones to lottery in. If you live in Key--you get automatic entry into ASF because they can't force any family to do immersion. I think there were only 1 or 2 spots last year available for kids not living in the neighborhood zone.

ATS is a county-wide school. This is COMPLETELY different than ASF. It has not in-boundary. It is a true lottery.

Ok so correctiom -- when do familes get notified about results of the ATS countywide lottery and when do families from the Jamestown/taylor cluster find out if they get off the waitlist? And once notifed, how long do you have to decide?

What is wrong with Jamestown/Taylor? If I were in that cluster I wouldn't bother trying to get into ATS or ASF.

I am an ASF parent, btw. If the school is good--pick the one closest to home and the one the neighborhood kids attend. It will make your life much easier.

Let me guess---you read the recent Post article highlighting these schools....

Because Taylor has a mean girl issue, which carries over into Williamsburg MS

So basically nothing has changed in 20 years...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess---you read the recent Post article highlighting these schools....

tks for the tip. found the story on ATS and other magnets http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/traditional-va-schools-find-themselves-in-high-demand-as-they-eschew-experimentation/2014/03/21/1533c9a0-af9a-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html but nothing on ASFS. could you share the link if you still have it?

[Anonymous]

Dear moms, I would like some ideas if any of you had a chance to rent anywhere in the DC metro area near a metro, where would you rent to qualify in one of the best public schools for a first timer in Kindergarden? focused on creative, science and balanced? we're looking in Ballston, any ideas there? thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear moms, I would like some ideas if any of you had a chance to rent anywhere in the DC metro area near a metro, where would you rent to qualify in one of the best public schools for a first timer in Kindergarden? focused on creative, science and balanced? we're looking in Ballston, any ideas there? thanks!

go to Courthouse/Clarendon/rosslyn instead of Ballston. You can be zoned Arlington Science Focus. Anything zoned for 'Key' guarantees automatic admission to ASF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear moms, I would like some ideas if any of you had a chance to rent anywhere in the DC metro area near a metro, where would you rent to qualify in one of the best public schools for a first timer in Kindergarden? focused on creative, science and balanced? we're looking in Ballston, any ideas there? thanks!

parts of waycroft woodlawn are mckinley zoned and you can walk to ballston metro if that's what you are after. Mckinley is like you describe.