Falls Church or Edison

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is NOT accurate btw about Rose Hill. One of my good friends did this and her ds was 15th on the 30 person wait list. Everyone thinks it's a shoe in if you live in bounds and it's not.

It was true the 10 years we were at Rose Hill. The only kids on the waitlist for K were out of district. I believe after K, out of district kids get priority rather than in district kids. Was your friend trying to get her kids in at the K level or 1st grade? After 2nd grade, they don't accept kids that weren't in an immersion program elsewhere unless they are native Spanish speakers.

Kindergarten, for the 2016-2017 school year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This is NOT accurate btw about Rose Hill. One of my good friends did this and her ds was 15th on the 30 person wait list. Everyone thinks it's a shoe in if you live in bounds and it's not.

It was true the 10 years we were at Rose Hill. The only kids on the waitlist for K were out of district. I believe after K, out of district kids get priority rather than in district kids. Was your friend trying to get her kids in at the K level or 1st grade? After 2nd grade, they don't accept kids that weren't in an immersion program elsewhere unless they are native Spanish speakers.

Kindergarten, for the 2016-2017 school year

PP here. I hope this doesn't come across as snarky because that's not the way I mean it. There are 25 kids in each of the 2 immersion classes (50 kids total). Half the kids come from homes where English is spoken at home and half come where Spanish is spoken. Rose Hill is a majority minority school with about 50% of the student population identifying as Hispanic, 30% of them receiving ESL services and 35% are LEP. Being 15 on a waitlist of 30 means there are at least 14 in-district kids hoping to get into the program. In the 10 years we were there (and I still have a kid there), every K class has had 1/3-1/2 the home English speakers from out of district (I'm looking at the directories from over the years for the classes). I don't understand why the upcoming school year would be different than all the other school years. Are you sure your friend isn't talking about the SACC waitlist? Now, THAT, I know has a waiting list like what you're talking about. We were number 54 on that list the spring before school started (and were about to get in!).