Capitol Hill Choices with no car

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Anonymous wrote:Apply to Hill Preschool and move on. If you can afford to live IB for Brent, you can likely afford private daycare. Plus you would meet other Brent inbound pk3 children and parents who also didn’t get in.

We went to Hill Preschool, just for 1 year when DS was 3. It was sweet but there isn't any a-b-c or 1-2-3 learning going on there.

A 3 year old should be playing in their preschool environment — sounds lovely

[Anonymous]

If you strike out with the lottery, and have the resources, consider TOTH Montessori. They have a great program, and easy walking from the Brent school district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friendship Chamberlain and then get on the metro at Potomac Ave.

Other options:

walk or 90 bus to JO Wilson, Ludlow-Taylor, 2R4th and take the X2 or red line to work.

Metro to Benning Road, drop kid at nearby school (Plummer is closest), go back to metro for work.

90 bus to Mundo Verde Cook campus or Friendship Armstrong (people like the Reggio PK there) and then go to work.

Stay at your current day care until you get a spot at Brent

Buy a car or take uber a lot

Lottery for all the schools you'd want to attend if commute were no option and then move if you get into one.

We know people IB for LT who didn’t get in and someone who was OOB with sibling preference who didn’t get in to JO Wilson. Those schools aren’t really an option for OP, but check the data on MySchool in case my info is old.

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If OP can't come up with 12 other schools, there's no harm in listing some where the odds are bad. I think LT and JOW are long shots, but not impossible.

Last year, JOW waitlisted one IB and seven OOB with siblings, but made 11 waitlist offers (of course, they could be IB or sibling kids who joined the waitlist after the lottery).

LT is worse odds...they waitlisted more than half the IB kids without siblings. But no harm in listing it unless you have 12 others you prefer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apply to Hill Preschool and move on. If you can afford to live IB for Brent, you can likely afford private daycare. Plus you would meet other Brent inbound pk3 children and parents who also didn’t get in.

We went to Hill Preschool, just for 1 year when DS was 3. It was sweet but there isn't any a-b-c or 1-2-3 learning going on there.

A 3 year old should be playing in their preschool environment — sounds lovely

Agreed. The Hill Preschool is an excellent environment and many kids attend there prior to heading to Brent at Kindergarten (and are very well prepared).

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Anonymous wrote:If OP can't come up with 12 other schools, there's no harm in listing some where the odds are bad. I think LT and JOW are long shots, but not impossible.

Last year, JOW waitlisted one IB and seven OOB with siblings, but made 11 waitlist offers (of course, they could be IB or sibling kids who joined the waitlist after the lottery).

LT is worse odds...they waitlisted more than half the IB kids without siblings. But no harm in listing it unless you have 12 others you prefer.

We're one of those IB families that didn't get in (only child), although we opted to stay in daycare for PK3 and hope for the best with PK4. No dice. We're happy with PK at St. Peter's. not a lot of help for OP, though, because St. Peter's doesn't start until 4.

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Put Brent first on your list, obviously. Then list other Hill ES's that you stand a decent chance of getting into. These include Miner, Two Rivers Young, JO Wilson, Apple Tree Lincoln Park and Oklahoma -- basically anywhere you think you stand a chance to get in.

Leave Maury, Peabody, LT off your list. You're OOB and PK and you're just not getting in.

Once you get in SOMEWHERE, take the money you're saving by not paying for daycare and by a decent used car for around $10-12k. It'll make life easier AND will solve any issues about school location, as long as it's on or close to the Hill.

PK3 and PK4 are pretty much the same at any school. They're good quality environments with basic socialization and other educational programming built in. Your kid will be fine in any of the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:MV does have an Eastern Market bus to both locations, but keep in mind that it runs school hours. Also, I'm sure people do it, but 3 is very young for that IMO.

+1000 Our family uses the MV bus and it is excellent. There is a chaperone on the bus in addition to the driver and many PK-3 and PK-4 students from both MV campuses.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MV does have an Eastern Market bus to both locations, but keep in mind that it runs school hours. Also, I'm sure people do it, but 3 is very young for that IMO.

+1000 Our family uses the MV bus and it is excellent. There is a chaperone on the bus in addition to the driver and many PK-3 and PK-4 students from both MV campuses.

One of the families I know in DC’s class who live in CH uses it. They are very happy with it and huge difference in quality of life not having to do any commute per her.

She says there is a large cohort of kids from CH who go to MV and uses the shuttle to Eastern Market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If OP can't come up with 12 other schools, there's no harm in listing some where the odds are bad. I think LT and JOW are long shots, but not impossible.

Last year, JOW waitlisted one IB and seven OOB with siblings, but made 11 waitlist offers (of course, they could be IB or sibling kids who joined the waitlist after the lottery).

LT is worse odds...they waitlisted more than half the IB kids without siblings. But no harm in listing it unless you have 12 others you prefer.

No chance if you're PK3 and OOB for LT -- consider it impossible. JOW OOB probably no chance either, but maybe....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put Brent first on your list, obviously. Then list other Hill ES's that you stand a decent chance of getting into. These include Miner, Two Rivers Young, JO Wilson, Apple Tree Lincoln Park and Oklahoma -- basically anywhere you think you stand a chance to get in.

Leave Maury, Peabody, LT off your list. You're OOB and PK and you're just not getting in.

Once you get in SOMEWHERE, take the money you're saving by not paying for daycare and by a decent used car for around $10-12k. It'll make life easier AND will solve any issues about school location, as long as it's on or close to the Hill.

PK3 and PK4 are pretty much the same at any school. They're good quality environments with basic socialization and other educational programming built in. Your kid will be fine in any of the schools.

With Goding modernization planned SWS may have better odds this year than normal. Location is wild card and your tolerance for bus may be a factor. One potential location is adjacent to TRY