Literally zero positive movement at Brent/Peabody

[Anonymous]

The cluster proximity preference issue is all kids of screwed up. Call myschooldc and complain.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know it was physically possible to be inbounds for either Brent or Peabody and also have proximity for the other. Isn't proximity like 1500 radius from the school itself? Neither is that close to the boundary. Peabody and LT, yes.

Not true. Southern Cluster boundary is just a few blocks from Brent. There are pockets where this could fly. South of Stanton Park towards East Cap, and east of 8th St. north of Penn Ave

Our house fits this description, but when I go to myschool dc, it doesn't show proximity preference, even though I am closer to Brent (1/2 mile) than Peabody (greater than 1/2 mile) using google maps. Does proximity preference show up on myschool dc for you folks?

Yes it does if your address is eligible. You can also call and ask them.

I'm the poster who got accepted into Brent OOB with proximity preference. We're inbound for the Cluster (.7 miles from Peabody) and just under .5 mikes from Brent. I did not request proximity preference, but the MySchoolDC software recognized it based on my address and gave it to me.

FYI: my child who is inbound for Watkins did not get Brent proximity, as we are only .5 miles from Watkins.

Fwiw, we live right near Eastern Market.

This sort of thing happens all the time. The software MySchoolDC uses doesn't recognize as-the-crow-flies distances anymore; they use the Google Maps walking function. Up to the SY 2014-2015 lottery, they used to use a "square" on a map function, with your house in the middle to determine proximity preference. You can call and try to get it sorted out. We failed to to this last year in similar circumstances.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know it was physically possible to be inbounds for either Brent or Peabody and also have proximity for the other. Isn't proximity like 1500 radius from the school itself? Neither is that close to the boundary. Peabody and LT, yes.

Not true. Southern Cluster boundary is just a few blocks from Brent. There are pockets where this could fly. South of Stanton Park towards East Cap, and east of 8th St. north of Penn Ave

Our house fits this description, but when I go to myschool dc, it doesn't show proximity preference, even though I am closer to Brent (1/2 mile) than Peabody (greater than 1/2 mile) using google maps. Does proximity preference show up on myschool dc for you folks?

Yes it does if your address is eligible. You can also call and ask them.

I'm the poster who got accepted into Brent OOB with proximity preference. We're inbound for the Cluster (.7 miles from Peabody) and just under .5 mikes from Brent. I did not request proximity preference, but the MySchoolDC software recognized it based on my address and gave it to me.

FYI: my child who is inbound for Watkins did not get Brent proximity, as we are only .5 miles from Watkins.

Fwiw, we live right near Eastern Market.

This sort of thing happens all the time. The software MySchoolDC uses doesn't recognize as-the-crow-flies distances anymore; they use the Google Maps walking function. Up to the SY 2014-2015 lottery, they used to use a "square" on a map function, with your house in the middle to determine proximity preference. You can call and try to get it sorted out. We failed to to this last year in similar circumstances.

They must have an algorithm that calculates distance between individual schools rather than home to school. Do they offer proximity option if OOB option is closer than IB? Judging by the Peabody/Watkins example that would appear to be the case.

[Anonymous]

Here's how the FAQ defines proximity preference.

Proximity preference

Students who live greater than a half mile walking distance from their zoned DCPS elementary school will receive a proximity preference in the out-of-boundary lottery to a DCPS zoned elementary school that is a half mile or less walking distance from their home.

You need to call if you think it isn't calculating your situation correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's how the FAQ defines proximity preference.

Proximity preference

Students who live greater than a half mile walking distance from their zoned DCPS elementary school will receive a proximity preference in the out-of-boundary lottery to a DCPS zoned elementary school that is a half mile or less walking distance from their home.

You need to call if you think it isn't calculating your situation correctly.

This is pretty clear, and it's a change from past policy. Proximity used to involve a literal square drawn around the school on a map (3000 ft. per side I believe) and you had to live within than square to get proximity. The 1/2 mile rule makes more sense.

In this example it must be a very small number. By K+ there are not that many OOB spaces opened at Brent, and there are none for ECE.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's how the FAQ defines proximity preference.

Proximity preference

Students who live greater than a half mile walking distance from their zoned DCPS elementary school will receive a proximity preference in the out-of-boundary lottery to a DCPS zoned elementary school that is a half mile or less walking distance from their home.

You need to call if you think it isn't calculating your situation correctly.

This is pretty clear, and it's a change from past policy. Proximity used to involve a literal square drawn around the school on a map (3000 ft. per side I believe) and you had to live within than square to get proximity. The 1/2 mile rule makes more sense.

In this example it must be a very small number. By K+ there are not that many OOB spaces opened at Brent, and there are none for ECE.

Depends on the year. The rising K's are a small class so there could be much more WL movement than last year (or next year).

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know it was physically possible to be inbounds for either Brent or Peabody and also have proximity for the other. Isn't proximity like 1500 radius from the school itself? Neither is that close to the boundary. Peabody and LT, yes.

Not true. Southern Cluster boundary is just a few blocks from Brent. There are pockets where this could fly. South of Stanton Park towards East Cap, and east of 8th St. north of Penn Ave

Our house fits this description, but when I go to myschool dc, it doesn't show proximity preference, even though I am closer to Brent (1/2 mile) than Peabody (greater than 1/2 mile) using google maps. Does proximity preference show up on myschool dc for you folks?

Yes it does if your address is eligible. You can also call and ask them.

I'm the poster who got accepted into Brent OOB with proximity preference. We're inbound for the Cluster (.7 miles from Peabody) and just under .5 mikes from Brent. I did not request proximity preference, but the MySchoolDC software recognized it based on my address and gave it to me.

FYI: my child who is inbound for Watkins did not get Brent proximity, as we are only .5 miles from Watkins.

Fwiw, we live right near Eastern Market.

This sort of thing happens all the time. The software MySchoolDC uses doesn't recognize as-the-crow-flies distances anymore; they use the Google Maps walking function. Up to the SY 2014-2015 lottery, they used to use a "square" on a map function, with your house in the middle to determine proximity preference. You can call and try to get it sorted out. We failed to to this last year in similar circumstances.

We succeeded last year. But please do call. There are still a lot of glitches.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's how the FAQ defines proximity preference.

Proximity preference

Students who live greater than a half mile walking distance from their zoned DCPS elementary school will receive a proximity preference in the out-of-boundary lottery to a DCPS zoned elementary school that is a half mile or less walking distance from their home.

You need to call if you think it isn't calculating your situation correctly.

This is pretty clear, and it's a change from past policy. Proximity used to involve a literal square drawn around the school on a map (3000 ft. per side I believe) and you had to live within than square to get proximity. The 1/2 mile rule makes more sense.

In this example it must be a very small number. By K+ there are not that many OOB spaces opened at Brent, and there are none for ECE.

No way! The rising Ks at Brent are the year where about 30 IB kids didn't get in to PK3. Maybe a lot of those kids have decided to stay where they otherwise landed?

Depends on the year. The rising K's are a small class so there could be much more WL movement than last year (or next year).

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I don't believe that is correct. Based on the PS3 lottery information, the soon to be 1st graders had a WL of 30 and the rising 4s had a WL of 40 (both classes totaled about 70 kids). The soon to be Ks only had 13 on the WL for a total class size of 40ish.

Although maybe more kids applied last year for 4s that I missed.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't believe that is correct. Based on the PS3 lottery information, the soon to be 1st graders had a WL of 30 and the rising 4s had a WL of 40 (both classes totaled about 70 kids). The soon to be Ks only had 13 on the WL for a total class size of 40ish.

Although maybe more kids applied last year for 4s that I missed.

At last week's orientation for incoming K families, Principal Young shared that next year's K presently has three classrooms with 20 kids in each. He noted that could change a bit over the summer, but probably not by much.

[Anonymous]

Not trying to be rude- but what did you expect? Those schools fill up with siblings. Every year. And every year parents waste lottery spots on trying to get in.

[Anonymous]

It's hopeless for ECE, but it's not hopeless to get in OOB for K. I know quite a few families admitted from OOB (no sibling preference) this past year, and I imagine more will be admitted for the incoming K class. If Nrent wants to maintain the 400+ enrollment, they may need class sizes a little larger than 20 from K on.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's how the FAQ defines proximity preference.

Proximity preference

Students who live greater than a half mile walking distance from their zoned DCPS elementary school will receive a proximity preference in the out-of-boundary lottery to a DCPS zoned elementary school that is a half mile or less walking distance from their home.

You need to call if you think it isn't calculating your situation correctly.

I called. Was told that proximity preference is only for one school, and while Brent is less than 1/2 mile away from us, Tyler is even closer so we have proximity preference for Tyler.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's how the FAQ defines proximity preference.

Proximity preference

Students who live greater than a half mile walking distance from their zoned DCPS elementary school will receive a proximity preference in the out-of-boundary lottery to a DCPS zoned elementary school that is a half mile or less walking distance from their home.

You need to call if you think it isn't calculating your situation correctly.

I called. Was told that proximity preference is only for one school, and while Brent is less than 1/2 mile away from us, Tyler is even closer so we have proximity preference for Tyler. [/quote

For your sake, sorry to hear that. But thanks for reporting back.

There must be something like one block total that's eligible for Brent proximity preference.

[Anonymous]

The whole "don't waste your lottery pick on a popular school because of siblings" really gets to me.

How did their first child get in, post 2010? The lottery. If I don't get my eldest into a good school, the siblings will be screwed, too.