Anyone know why we are not getting proximity preference?

[Anonymous]

You could be even closer to Stuart-Hobson, which is also part of the Cluster School. I do think all of those three campuses are considered "The Cluster School". So being close to any of those three may outweigh your proximity to LT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is inbounds for Peabody and Watkins and is interested in proximity preference for Ludlow Taylor.

OP, I would check google maps to get the actual distance from your house to LT, as I have heard unconfirmed rumors that that measurement is what DCPS is using. I would then call myschooldc to see what they say.

LT is .3 from my house using google maps or the myschooldc site. Watkins is 1.2 with google maps and 1 with the myschooldc site.

How far is Peabody?

A couple blocks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could be even closer to Stuart-Hobson, which is also part of the Cluster School. I do think all of those three campuses are considered "The Cluster School". So being close to any of those three may outweigh your proximity to LT.

Could be (I'll call tomorrow) but that makes no sense. We won't be walking to either Peabody or SH for 1st grade.

[Anonymous]

Stuart Hobson does not count for proximity preference for students under 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could be even closer to Stuart-Hobson, which is also part of the Cluster School. I do think all of those three campuses are considered "The Cluster School". So being close to any of those three may outweigh your proximity to LT.

Could be (I'll call tomorrow) but that makes no sense. We won't be walking to either Peabody or SH for 1st grade.

Please post back OP. We live more than a half mile away from Peabody, but are very close to Brent. I wonder why we didn't received proximity preference for K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could be even closer to Stuart-Hobson, which is also part of the Cluster School. I do think all of those three campuses are considered "The Cluster School". So being close to any of those three may outweigh your proximity to LT.

Could be (I'll call tomorrow) but that makes no sense. We won't be walking to either Peabody or SH for 1st grade.

Please post back OP. We live more than a half mile away from Peabody, but are very close to Brent. I wonder why we didn't received proximity preference for K.

Will do. Do you live close to Watkins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stuart Hobson does not count for proximity preference for students under 6th grade.

Says who? It's part of the Cluster School, whose very nature is a multi-campus single-school model, for which proximity is determined in a more complex manner. Not saying you're wrong but you'd have to back up your claim with some evidence there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could be even closer to Stuart-Hobson, which is also part of the Cluster School. I do think all of those three campuses are considered "The Cluster School". So being close to any of those three may outweigh your proximity to LT.

Could be (I'll call tomorrow) but that makes no sense. We won't be walking to either Peabody or SH for 1st grade.

Please post back OP. We live more than a half mile away from Peabody, but are very close to Brent. I wonder why we didn't received proximity preference for K.

Where in the Cluster zone is "very close" to Brent and more than a half mile from Peabody???

[Anonymous]

I don't know anything about your particular situation - but I do know that when I emailed myschooldc, I heard back right away with the information I was looking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could be even closer to Stuart-Hobson, which is also part of the Cluster School. I do think all of those three campuses are considered "The Cluster School". So being close to any of those three may outweigh your proximity to LT.

Could be (I'll call tomorrow) but that makes no sense. We won't be walking to either Peabody or SH for 1st grade.

Please post back OP. We live more than a half mile away from Peabody, but are very close to Brent. I wonder why we didn't received proximity preference for K.

That doesn't matter. Proximity preference only matters for when the grade you want doesn't fill up with in-boundary kids. Brent fills up with IB kids. If they have a few extra spaces, they go to OOB siblings, which is a higher preference than proximity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuart Hobson does not count for proximity preference for students under 6th grade.

Says who? It's part of the Cluster School, whose very nature is a multi-campus single-school model, for which proximity is determined in a more complex manner. Not saying you're wrong but you'd have to back up your claim with some evidence there.

When the middle school feeders patterns changed in 2008 or so (don't remember the exact year), proximity to Stuart Hobson no longer counted for IB status to the Cluster. Ludlow Taylor and JO Wilson were added to Watkins as feeders, thus breaking up the "multi-campus single-school model." This is when the Brent families fought and loss to feed to Stuart and instead ended up with the Jefferson or Elliot Hine option.

[Anonymous]

OP, we had the exact same situation -- little over a mile to Watkins, just under half a mile to L-T. I actually emailed someone at DCPS, attaching screenshots of the Google Maps distances, and asked why there wasn't a preference. To their credit, I got a response quickly. But the response was (and I'm BARELY paraphrasing here) "I see those screenshots, but the computer says there's no proximity and we can't question the computer."

So, yeah, I think it's because they treat Peabody and Watkins as if they're exactly the same school. Because you're close to Peabody, the computer thinks you're closer to Watkins than to L-T. And apparently the computer knows all.