Waitlist Movement Data Now Available

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also Deal took 3 students from the WL last year in 6th and 1 in 8th (!!).

Gotta say, given the size of the 6th grade, that makes no sense at all. However, I know some kids who are IB who switched to private but did not unenroll from DCPS and there were lockers with their names on them the first week of school -- Deal was expecting them and they didn't show. So maybe those already planned spots were the ones given to WL?

Could be/ They didn't 'offer' any seats in the lottery but they did take 3 kids from the WL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Basis offered 90 5th grade spots this year and last year they offered 170! That says to me the school might be low-balling because of space but once they get a handle on whose coming back in the older grades they'll likely tap the 5th grade waitlist pretty hard.

The BASIS directory has 96 current 8th graders. So if half leave for SWW, Banneker, Wilson, private, etc -- that would theoretically open about 40-45 seats for 5th and/or 6th.

I don't think they'd take more than that because the space is really, really cramped.

Where is the information about having only 90 spots for 5th graders this year? Also, does anyone know what the attrition rate from 8th to 9th grade has been for previous years? Is it possible that BASIS did not even assume a conservative attrition rate when calculating the number of initial seats made available for 5th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Basis offered 90 5th grade spots this year and last year they offered 170! That says to me the school might be low-balling because of space but once they get a handle on whose coming back in the older grades they'll likely tap the 5th grade waitlist pretty hard.

The BASIS directory has 96 current 8th graders. So if half leave for SWW, Banneker, Wilson, private, etc -- that would theoretically open about 40-45 seats for 5th and/or 6th.

I don't think they'd take more than that because the space is really, really cramped.

Where is the information about having only 90 spots for 5th graders this year? Also, does anyone know what the attrition rate from 8th to 9th grade has been for previous years? Is it possible that BASIS did not even assume a conservative attrition rate when calculating the number of initial seats made available for 5th grade?

Click the link at top of page and adjust settings to see 2016-2017 information.

The attrition rate from 8th to 9th last year was about 30%. Closer to 50% prior years.

The old HOS (left last year) was kind of an idiot - and this is the new HOS's first time doing this in DC. So to the extent he is making the decision he could be being much more conservative than necessary, or he may have a better sense of what people's plans are. I know they've been doing a lot more outreach to 8th grade families than in the past but not everyone discloses their plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Basis offered 90 5th grade spots this year and last year they offered 170! That says to me the school might be low-balling because of space but once they get a handle on whose coming back in the older grades they'll likely tap the 5th grade waitlist pretty hard.

The BASIS directory has 96 current 8th graders. So if half leave for SWW, Banneker, Wilson, private, etc -- that would theoretically open about 40-45 seats for 5th and/or 6th.

I don't think they'd take more than that because the space is really, really cramped.

Where is the information about having only 90 spots for 5th graders this year? Also, does anyone know what the attrition rate from 8th to 9th grade has been for previous years? Is it possible that BASIS did not even assume a conservative attrition rate when calculating the number of initial seats made available for 5th grade?

Click the link at top of page and adjust settings to see 2016-2017 information.

The attrition rate from 8th to 9th last year was about 30%. Closer to 50% prior years.

The old HOS (left last year) was kind of an idiot - and this is the new HOS's first time doing this in DC. So to the extent he is making the decision he could be being much more conservative than necessary, or he may have a better sense of what people's plans are. I know they've been doing a lot more outreach to 8th grade families than in the past but not everyone discloses their plans.

I know a Basis family that is heading to Wilson for HS. I suspect that many of the Basis students that live in-boundary for Wilson will transfer to Wilson for HS rather than stay at Basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Basis offered 90 5th grade spots this year and last year they offered 170! That says to me the school might be low-balling because of space but once they get a handle on whose coming back in the older grades they'll likely tap the 5th grade waitlist pretty hard.

The BASIS directory has 96 current 8th graders. So if half leave for SWW, Banneker, Wilson, private, etc -- that would theoretically open about 40-45 seats for 5th and/or 6th.

I don't think they'd take more than that because the space is really, really cramped.

Where is the information about having only 90 spots for 5th graders this year? Also, does anyone know what the attrition rate from 8th to 9th grade has been for previous years? Is it possible that BASIS did not even assume a conservative attrition rate when calculating the number of initial seats made available for 5th grade?

Click the link at top of page and adjust settings to see 2016-2017 information.

The attrition rate from 8th to 9th last year was about 30%. Closer to 50% prior years.

The old HOS (left last year) was kind of an idiot - and this is the new HOS's first time doing this in DC. So to the extent he is making the decision he could be being much more conservative than necessary, or he may have a better sense of what people's plans are. I know they've been doing a lot more outreach to 8th grade families than in the past but not everyone discloses their plans.

I know a Basis family that is heading to Wilson for HS. I suspect that many of the Basis students that live in-boundary for Wilson will transfer to Wilson for HS rather than stay at Basis.

Yes - this happened in prior years too.

Unless they tell the school, there's no way for the BASIS admin to know/plan (same for privates). People who leave for the application high schools or an OOB option are surfaced more quickly due to the lottery.

[Anonymous]

Poor Sela.

[Anonymous]

Lots of the charter schools are missing the 2014-15 figures, but still fantastic data. Thanks for posting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of the charter schools are missing the 2014-15 figures, but still fantastic data. Thanks for posting!

What do you mean? This is just 15-16 waitlists and I agree, fantastic. So much more informative than trying to crowdsource on DCUM what number a school made it to last year. I continue to be impressed by My School DC.

[Anonymous]

There is a dropdown menu where you can select 14-15 or 16-17 to look at spots offered and waitlist movement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a dropdown menu where you can select 14-15 or 16-17 to look at spots offered and waitlist movement.

Ah, I see. You can see seats available for all three years, but looks like waitlist movement shows for 15-16 only.

[Anonymous]

The waitlist hasn't moved yet for this year, and myschooldc didn't centrally manage the waitlist in 14-15.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any sense of movement for PK4 for this year for Two Rivers Young? I know it was a new campus last year, so not sure how much to glean from the 2015-16 data. TIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any sense of movement for PK4 for this year for Two Rivers Young? I know it was a new campus last year, so not sure how much to glean from the 2015-16 data. TIA.

There won't be movement until May, so no one can answer that now.

[Anonymous]

I wish these lists broke the numbers down by students admitted with sibling preference. When you see PK3 and 87% of students with only one school listed were matched, it would be helpful to list what % had sibling preference (I imagine most of them). I'm realizing now that I have a second child who got admitted due to sibling preference that the numbers that say high percentages of students were matched in one of their top 3 choices that a lot of them probably did have sibling preference. It would be interesting (depressing) to see what % if PK3 applicants got matched with a top choice with no sibling preference.

[Anonymous]

These data are great, but they don't tell you how far down the list they went. Some people may have gotten into a higher-ranked school and dropped off of the other waitlists. So, e.g., it shows that Hearst only made 4 offers from their waitlist for PK4 last year, but they surely went beyond spot 4 -- I know someone in the top 4 initially who got into a better ranked school and was then removed from the Hearst waitlist, so they never got a call.