So where did all the kids inbounds for Brent waitlisted for PK3 end up?

[Anonymous]

Lots of the Brent PreK3 wait-listed will end up at Van Ness and Tyler (both Spanish Immersion and Traditional) because many families got proximity preference for one or the other, with homes within half a mile walking distance. Others got it for Peabody, which struggles to accomodate all in-boundary for PreK3. AppleTrees aren't difficult to get into, at least not by Oct count day. So these are the natural choices. A few will land at Logan or Ludlow. The big influx of Brent PreK3 refugees into Van Ness is helping tip the demographic balance to keep the school from being designated Title 1. Good, that will help Van Ness, including the poor in-boundary kids who are enrolled.

I don't see another big PreK3 group entering the 2016 lottery. There aren't as many babies in the neighborhood as two or three years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So not to stir up trouble, but I'm very curious. Where did all the kids inbounds for Brent who were waitlisted end up? Are most at Appletrees or did they find potentially permanent schools like Mundo Verde and Logan Montessori?

The Mundo Verde WL is about a thousand names and miles long.

It's easier to get into Brent, idiot.

Your analytical skills need some work, hotshot. No non-siblings got into Brent PK3 this year. Mundo Verde took non-siblings. Therefore the kids we're talking about had a chance of getting into MV regardless of the length of their waitlist whereas they had no chance of getting into Brent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of the Brent PreK3 wait-listed will end up at Van Ness and Tyler (both Spanish Immersion and Traditional) because many families got proximity preference for one or the other, with homes within half a mile walking distance. Others got it for Peabody, which struggles to accomodate all in-boundary for PreK3. AppleTrees aren't difficult to get into, at least not by Oct count day. So these are the natural choices. A few will land at Logan or Ludlow. The big influx of Brent PreK3 refugees into Van Ness is helping tip the demographic balance to keep the school from being designated Title 1. Good, that will help Van Ness, including the poor in-boundary kids who are enrolled.

I don't see another big PreK3 group entering the 2016 lottery. There aren't as many babies in the neighborhood as two or three years ago.

Peabody had a long IB waitlist so I doubt they are there or at Maury.

[Anonymous]

We are staying at our daycare, and I assume others who were shut out are as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of the Brent PreK3 wait-listed will end up at Van Ness and Tyler (both Spanish Immersion and Traditional) because many families got proximity preference for one or the other, with homes within half a mile walking distance. Others got it for Peabody, which struggles to accomodate all in-boundary for PreK3. AppleTrees aren't difficult to get into, at least not by Oct count day. So these are the natural choices. A few will land at Logan or Ludlow. The big influx of Brent PreK3 refugees into Van Ness is helping tip the demographic balance to keep the school from being designated Title 1. Good, that will help Van Ness, including the poor in-boundary kids who are enrolled.

I don't see another big PreK3 group entering the 2016 lottery. There aren't as many babies in the neighborhood as two or three years ago.

Peabody had a long IB waitlist so I doubt they are there or at Maury.

Maury has a long IB waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of the Brent PreK3 wait-listed will end up at Van Ness and Tyler (both Spanish Immersion and Traditional) because many families got proximity preference for one or the other, with homes within half a mile walking distance. Others got it for Peabody, which struggles to accomodate all in-boundary for PreK3. AppleTrees aren't difficult to get into, at least not by Oct count day. So these are the natural choices. A few will land at Logan or Ludlow. The big influx of Brent PreK3 refugees into Van Ness is helping tip the demographic balance to keep the school from being designated Title 1. Good, that will help Van Ness, including the poor in-boundary kids who are enrolled.

I don't see another big PreK3 group entering the 2016 lottery. There aren't as many babies in the neighborhood as two or three years ago.

Isn't it better for the school to be Title 1 -- more money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of the Brent PreK3 wait-listed will end up at Van Ness and Tyler (both Spanish Immersion and Traditional) because many families got proximity preference for one or the other, with homes within half a mile walking distance. Others got it for Peabody, which struggles to accomodate all in-boundary for PreK3. AppleTrees aren't difficult to get into, at least not by Oct count day. So these are the natural choices. A few will land at Logan or Ludlow. The big influx of Brent PreK3 refugees into Van Ness is helping tip the demographic balance to keep the school from being designated Title 1. Good, that will help Van Ness, including the poor in-boundary kids who are enrolled.

I don't see another big PreK3 group entering the 2016 lottery. There aren't as many babies in the neighborhood as two or three years ago.

Peabody had a long IB waitlist so I doubt they are there or at Maury.

Yep, Peabody still has more than 30 IB kids waitlisted for PK3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are staying at our daycare, and I assume others who were shut out are as well.

Same here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of the Brent PreK3 wait-listed will end up at Van Ness and Tyler (both Spanish Immersion and Traditional) because many families got proximity preference for one or the other, with homes within half a mile walking distance. Others got it for Peabody, which struggles to accomodate all in-boundary for PreK3. AppleTrees aren't difficult to get into, at least not by Oct count day. So these are the natural choices. A few will land at Logan or Ludlow. The big influx of Brent PreK3 refugees into Van Ness is helping tip the demographic balance to keep the school from being designated Title 1. Good, that will help Van Ness, including the poor in-boundary kids who are enrolled.

I don't see another big PreK3 group entering the 2016 lottery. There aren't as many babies in the neighborhood as two or three years ago.

Peabody had a long IB waitlist so I doubt they are there or at Maury.

as did Ludlow Taylor and CH Montessori. PP is talking out of ass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm, flippant would probably be a better descriptor than shitty. There was no real insult to Van Ness except the assumption that the IB Brent kids would return to Brent for K. And I assume many will. That cohort might end up pretty huge for Brent as most of the Appletree kids will return as well. The waitlisted cohort entering K this coming year dispersed to the winds with relatively few starting at Brent, leaving a fair number of spots for OOB kids. But so far this doesn't seem like the case for the rising PK3 group.

There also seems to be a lot less bitterness with this new waitlisted group. Maybe because ALL non-sibs were waitlisted and they knew that would happen going into the lottery. Van Ness being there so close by is huge too.

Will there be much larger K classes in two years at Brent when the PK3 IB non-sibling kids show up? Could another K teacher be added to keep class size down?

[Anonymous]

If Van Ness actually gets a lot of the kids in-bound for Brent, Van Ness will be one of the better Ward 6 elementary schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Van Ness actually gets a lot of the kids in-bound for Brent, Van Ness will be one of the better Ward 6 elementary schools.

This will not happen. Brent kids will return to Brent for K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of the Brent PreK3 wait-listed will end up at Van Ness and Tyler (both Spanish Immersion and Traditional) because many families got proximity preference for one or the other, with homes within half a mile walking distance. Others got it for Peabody, which struggles to accomodate all in-boundary for PreK3. AppleTrees aren't difficult to get into, at least not by Oct count day. So these are the natural choices. A few will land at Logan or Ludlow. The big influx of Brent PreK3 refugees into Van Ness is helping tip the demographic balance to keep the school from being designated Title 1. Good, that will help Van Ness, including the poor in-boundary kids who are enrolled.

I don't see another big PreK3 group entering the 2016 lottery. There aren't as many babies in the neighborhood as two or three years ago.

Isn't it better for the school to be Title 1 -- more money?

No, absolutely not. A cohort of engaged high SES parents is worth much more to a DCPS school than the 50-100K Title 1 schools get over standard outlays for supporting student bodies where 40% or more of the kids are FARMS. This is true no matter how much money a PTA does or does not raise. PTAs run by pesky middle-class parents are golden in a school system in transition, and middle-class peers improve learning outputs for poor kids (big corpus of academic literature on this subject). DCPS has more than enough Title 1 schools that don't serve anybody very well. Enough of those already. The parents that come with majority high SES programs provide the best quality control DC Public can offer to poor kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rumor has it that 14 or 15 of of the 42 or 43 who were rejected for PreK3 are heading to Van Ness and 9 or 10 to AppleTree LP. It seems that four or five are staying at the Hill Preschool. I've only heard of 1 or 2 starting at Mundo Verde.

Brent families are taking half of the seats at VN? This could present a pretty big shock to the system if most return to Brent after two years of PK.

Many schools in DC grapple with this. Nothing new. Good "second choice" schools are attractive all around and will fill their seats until that development sticks and people stick around whether or not they're in-bounds. Capitol Hill is full of this phenomenon and I'm sure other parts of the city know it too. Comes with school choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm, flippant would probably be a better descriptor than shitty. There was no real insult to Van Ness except the assumption that the IB Brent kids would return to Brent for K. And I assume many will. That cohort might end up pretty huge for Brent as most of the Appletree kids will return as well. The waitlisted cohort entering K this coming year dispersed to the winds with relatively few starting at Brent, leaving a fair number of spots for OOB kids. But so far this doesn't seem like the case for the rising PK3 group.

There also seems to be a lot less bitterness with this new waitlisted group. Maybe because ALL non-sibs were waitlisted and they knew that would happen going into the lottery. Van Ness being there so close by is huge too.

Will there be much larger K classes in two years at Brent when the PK3 IB non-sibling kids show up? Could another K teacher be added to keep class size down?

I don't see much larger K classes in two years. Brent won't need to add a K teacher. There are already three classes, meaning that up to 75 in-boundary kids can easily be accomodated. The 2015 PreK3 cohort is roughly the same size as that from 2013 (in the low 70s), and Brent wound up auctioning off OOB seats this year.