DCPS Round 1 My School DC Results Posted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just checked for our IB school LT. Out of 54 spots, 36 IB, 4 IB + Sib, 4 Proximity, 9+1 OB Sibs. That means that for this class -if everybody stays- at least 80% is IB. Compare that to the 21% they publish on their webpage.

Has this always been the case or is it due to the new lottery system?

I thought that the IB rate is calculated based on the percentage of IB kids who could go to the school that actually do. E.g. if there are 1000 kids in the neighborhood and only 100 go to the school the inbound rate is 10 percent. Now, if there are only 100 spots then all the spots would be taken by inbound kids, but it would still be an "IB participation rate" which is how they've described it before. My failing neighborhood school has an IB participation rate of something like 11 percent and they dont' have many (any?) OOB kids there, so only this would make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just checked for our IB school LT. Out of 54 spots, 36 IB, 4 IB + Sib, 4 Proximity, 9+1 OB Sibs. That means that for this class -if everybody stays- at least 80% is IB. Compare that to the 21% they publish on their webpage.

Has this always been the case or is it due to the new lottery system?

I thought that the IB rate is calculated based on the percentage of IB kids who could go to the school that actually do. E.g. if there are 1000 kids in the neighborhood and only 100 go to the school the inbound rate is 10 percent. Now, if there are only 100 spots then all the spots would be taken by inbound kids, but it would still be an "IB participation rate" which is how they've described it before. My failing neighborhood school has an IB participation rate of something like 11 percent and they dont' have many (any?) OOB kids there, so only this would make sense.

Where on the DCPS results page posted today does it talk about "IB participation rate"? I only see calculations that appear to be based on the % of admitted or waitlisted students who are IB. So Eaton this year was 100%, whereas in the past it was 60% (according to a PP).

Since on some popular schools there are plenty of IB students waitlisted, these figures only make sense as % of either enrolled students overall or admitted students in this round. None of these stats seem to be about the % of potential IB students who are enrolled/admitted, because that wouldn't help anyone trying to figure out their chances, since some of the IB who aren't admitted may have gone private... others may have tried to get in but just couldn't. Those are really different situations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just checked for our IB school LT. Out of 54 spots, 36 IB, 4 IB + Sib, 4 Proximity, 9+1 OB Sibs. That means that for this class -if everybody stays- at least 80% is IB. Compare that to the 21% they publish on their webpage.

Has this always been the case or is it due to the new lottery system?

I thought that the IB rate is calculated based on the percentage of IB kids who could go to the school that actually do. E.g. if there are 1000 kids in the neighborhood and only 100 go to the school the inbound rate is 10 percent. Now, if there are only 100 spots then all the spots would be taken by inbound kids, but it would still be an "IB participation rate" which is how they've described it before. My failing neighborhood school has an IB participation rate of something like 11 percent and they dont' have many (any?) OOB kids there, so only this would make sense.

Where on the DCPS results page posted today does it talk about "IB participation rate"? I only see calculations that appear to be based on the % of admitted or waitlisted students who are IB. So Eaton this year was 100%, whereas in the past it was 60% (according to a PP).

Since on some popular schools there are plenty of IB students waitlisted, these figures only make sense as % of either enrolled students overall or admitted students in this round. None of these stats seem to be about the % of potential IB students who are enrolled/admitted, because that wouldn't help anyone trying to figure out their chances, since some of the IB who aren't admitted may have gone private... others may have tried to get in but just couldn't. Those are really different situations.

I think PP is talking about the DCPS school profiles, which lists an IB%.
I would be really surprised, however, if it is as PP said. Some people are in bounds for 2 or even 3 schools, and obviously they can't attend more than 1. This would be punishing schools that are a choice among several in bounds schools.

[Anonymous]

It's not. It's based on what percentage of students at the school live in boundary.

Only 25% of kids in the system attend their in boundary schools, per the DME boundary review process.

[Anonymous]

DME publishes two inbound numbers for schools. On the DCPS profile page, there is the in-boundary percentage, which is the percentage of kids attending the school who live within the boundaries. In some other materials they publish the "in-boundary participation rate" which is the percentage of kids who live in-boundary who attend public schools who attend that school. So for example, Cardozo has an in-boundary percentage of 51% ( out of 681 students in the school 347 live in-boundary) and an in-boundary participation rate of 17% (out of 2043 kids who attend public high school and live in-boundary 347 attend the school).

The in-boundary participation rate includes kids who attend any public school -- DCPS or charter -- but does not include kids who go private.

[Anonymous]

Wow 1,000 applications to Mundo Verde. Holy shit.

[Anonymous]

If the percentage of IB children continue to rise, the issue of feeder rights with OOB children in crowded schools will become less of an issue. I suspect that the IB percentage will increase in most schools over the next little while (which is a good thing) - less so in dual language schools / programs where OOB students with a sibling get preference over IB students for PK3 and PK4 (sometimes leading IB children on the waitlist and forming roots elsewhere and not coming back for K).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow 1,000 applications to Mundo Verde. Holy shit.

...And we are leaving the school- go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow 1,000 applications to Mundo Verde. Holy shit.

...And we are leaving the school- go figure.

Can I ask why? We are starting there next year with some reservations.

[Anonymous]

Great to see that Hearst will soon be entirely IB. Only 6 this year hopefully none next year.

[Anonymous]

For Hearst that is only 6 OOB kids for pre-k 4. What a positive change for the school. I hope all the IB parents enroll. Hopefully next year will be 100% IB.

[Anonymous]

I swear I just don't get why it is so "great" and "positive" that Hearst now will be more IB?? If I live five minutes away in Ward 4, but am OB what makes the IB person better than me? Is this a proxy for something else? The school has been on the upswing and the IB population has had nothing to do with it. Seems like the OB people helped put it on the upswing and now the IB people have decided to jump on the bandwagon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow 1,000 applications to Mundo Verde. Holy shit.

...And we are leaving the school- go figure.

Can I ask why? We are starting there next year with some reservations.

I, too, would love to know why. Please please please tell us!

[Anonymous]

Wow - thanks Anonymous 7:25. Glad all of our OBB families that have been working to make Hearst great will benefit you.

[Anonymous]

Where in the results does it say whether any out-of-bound students were accepted? I have a neighbor that is not in the Lafayette school district but they told me their son got into Lafayette (for either PK or K, I'm not sure) for next year through the lottery. Given what I know about Lafayette, I find it extremely hard to believe that there would be any out-of-bound students getting in throught the lottery.