Lottery Rankings - PK3

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everyone for the advice! The commute isn’t an issue for us with either of those 3 schools, thus the difficulty of this decision! At the LAMB open house they said they are “currently” a feeder for DCI, which makes me believe that could change in the future.

Haha that's not changing. Strange wording but. You don't fight that hard to get feeder rights and then randomly give them up.

Also, they're indeed working on AMS accreditation. From what I understand those factors a PP raised would not necessarily disqualify. But AMI and AMS are different. Then again your real consideration should be whether you want Spanish. People too often downplay this. It's central - very central - to immersion schools like LAMB...

What they are likely referring to is the fact that their younger classes are larger than their allocation of seats at DCI (same as at MV, Stokes now). So not all students coming from those particular feeders will be able to go to DCI -- there will be a sub=lottery of sorts among the 5th grades from one particular feeder. (See the explanation of the situation from the MV website - the exact numbers are different but the scenario is the same - you need to scroll to the bottom of this page
http://www.mundoverdepcs.org/admissions)

I have never seen or heard LAMB confirm how many DCI slots they actually have vs their enrollment per grade -- but perhaps someone else here does.

I believe they have 60 spots, but am not positive. LAMB doesn't backfill past K, so that does help the odds (compared to most of the other feeders).

LAMB has never even come close to using their allotment yet. Not everyone wants to go to DCI, and their 5th grade is small. Sure, it will increase, but they still have as close to a guaranteed seat as you're going to get unless something freakish happens.