DC Lottery Results

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how for prek3 I got matched with a school as my #2 pick but others who put it as their #1 pick got waitlisted?

I don't mean to be rude, but did you even look at the FAQs or myriad materials available on MySchoolDC? They explain the process and logic. Where you rank a school does NOT have any impact on whether you get it over someone else who ranked it differently. Go read the FAQs.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted #19 DL and #13 Eng for Cleveland. Historical data shows movement on waitlist offers. We won't get into Bruce Monroe #15, so wondering anyone's thoughts on Cleveland movement. Matched with Thomson, and am realizing they don't have before care and we are in RTO hell.

Thomson is a great school, but you are correct they only have aftercare. Earliest drop off in the moring is 8:15 am

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Anonymous wrote:PK3 - got into Creative Minds. #3 on our list although I was hoping for an immersion school. Bethune was #4 and it’s marked as “Not waitlisted”. It’s more of a drive but Spanish immersion. Curious if Bethune 16th St (moving to Takoma) might be a better fit? I couldn’t decide on application day where to place these two but understood CMI is harder to get into than Bethune.

Can I ask why CMI is a top choice? They have been notoriously bad and getting worse. Lots of kids have dropped since the beginning of the school year and it’s because academics just aren’t a priority. There isn’t any accountability and the leadership just let go a huge number of staff members for next year.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how for prek3 I got matched with a school as my #2 pick but others who put it as their #1 pick got waitlisted?

Imagine there is an ice cream shop with many flavors of ice cream. Chocolate is your favor, then vanilla and then strawberry and so on. If you got to the counter and they were out of your favorite, you would ask for your next favorite on your list.

And every other person at the ice cream shop has their own personal list of favorite flavors in order.

The lottery number you receive is the random sequence that you are called to the counter to place your order. When you are called to the counter, you run through your own personal list of favorite flavors until you get to the first one they have in stock.

And then the next person is called to the counter to be served.

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Anonymous wrote:here we go...
We live in Mt. Pleasant. Besides the list below, we also have the option of an immersion charter in a language we care about (though not a high-demand like Spanish or Chinese), which involves either a commute in the opposite direction from our jobs or a parent-organized bus. We know parents there, but there's no good feeder option.

All the options on this list involve a bus or commute, but at least they'd be in the direction of our (federal worker) jobs, and tbh in neighborhoods we'd be happy to move to someday, assuming our incomes and future interest rates agree (for now, we're golden handcuffed to MtP via a prepandemic rate). fwiw, looking at the lottery history, a few - Hyde-Addison, Murch, etc - accepted more from the wait list last year than our current wait list number. Not sure we currently know any parents at any of them. But some of them feed to Deal (forgive my ignorance, does that apply to lottery kids too?)

The closest/easiest option for us in terms of commute...also not on this list...is actually a private school which has offered very generous financial aid, where we know several parents - but of course, the annual tuition would still exceed five figures, once you add in aftercare. And this is just kid 1 of 2.

Honest questions, if anyone has thoughts:
What is the likelihood that any of the schools on this list might come through - and if they do, are they worth the commitment over the relatively known quantities (to us) of an immersion charter that comes with a few asterisks, or a private that comes with a non-zero price tag?

And while I guess it's sort of a pointless exercise to ask "what would you do?" - since everyone has different calculations and different weights they give various factors, and also we're not including some pertinent (to us) details here - I am curious anyway!

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1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #22

2 Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster) - English Dominant Waitlisted - #47

3 Hearst Elementary School Waitlisted - #27

4 Murch Elementary School Waitlisted - #16

5 Stoddert Elementary School Waitlisted - #33

6 Hyde-Addison Elementary School Waitlisted - #23

7 Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS Waitlisted - #22

8 Key Elementary School Match (enrollment pending)

What numbers are you looking at to suggest Murch took more than 16 kids off the waitlist in any grade beyond PK4? They made 9 waitlist offers in kindergarten last year, and while there have been years where they add classrooms and thus take a chunk off the waitlist, most years it's 1-2 kids, tops.

we're on the PK4 list.

The problem you'll be facing is that the Murch PK4 waitlist is full of kids with neighborhood preference. They took a few OOB kids off the PK4 waitlist this year but most years they don't take any.

+1

Your WL number might also increase based on siblings enrolling or getting off the waitlist and moving up with sibling preference. A few years ago we thought for sure we’d get into a popular school because we were #8 on the waitlist. I think our number increased to 13 or 14 at one point and we never got in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how for prek3 I got matched with a school as my #2 pick but others who put it as their #1 pick got waitlisted?

I don't mean to be rude, but did you even look at the FAQs or myriad materials available on MySchoolDC? They explain the process and logic. Where you rank a school does NOT have any impact on whether you get it over someone else who ranked it differently. Go read the FAQs.

Why not just be nice, then? Myschooldc does do a good job with its materials, but it would be nice if people could ask questions here too. My kid has been lottery eligible for like 7 years. I definitely made some dumb mistakes the first year.

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Anyone else have a kid on the MacArthur? Anxious to see how it will move.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else have a kid on the MacArthur? Anxious to see how it will move.

My kid was 130 or so last year for 9th grade and received an offer in July.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid WL at BASIS and has a good chance of getting in. She is artsy, academically average and a bit shy. BASIS doesn’t seem like the best fit but she got crap number for Latin. We could wait at our current school for another year and try for Truth. Really don’t want to move out of the city and bummed at the lack of choices.

If you’re open to Sojourner, you should look at Capital City PCS too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how for prek3 I got matched with a school as my #2 pick but others who put it as their #1 pick got waitlisted?

I don't mean to be rude, but did you even look at the FAQs or myriad materials available on MySchoolDC? They explain the process and logic. Where you rank a school does NOT have any impact on whether you get it over someone else who ranked it differently. Go read the FAQs.

Why not just be nice, then? Myschooldc does do a good job with its materials, but it would be nice if people could ask questions here too. My kid has been lottery eligible for like 7 years. I definitely made some dumb mistakes the first year.

How can you make a dumb mistake when the only lottery strategy is “list the schools in your true order of preference.” ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how for prek3 I got matched with a school as my #2 pick but others who put it as their #1 pick got waitlisted?

I don't mean to be rude, but did you even look at the FAQs or myriad materials available on MySchoolDC? They explain the process and logic. Where you rank a school does NOT have any impact on whether you get it over someone else who ranked it differently. Go read the FAQs.

Why not just be nice, then? Myschooldc does do a good job with its materials, but it would be nice if people could ask questions here too. My kid has been lottery eligible for like 7 years. I definitely made some dumb mistakes the first year.

How can you make a dumb mistake when the only lottery strategy is “list the schools in your true order of preference.” ?

Not even sure why I continue to engage, but my mistake was not understanding how difficult it was to get a pk spot at our in-boundary school - the only school we listed. We had a 3 year old and a newborn and just didn’t take the time to look at things. Yeah we sound pretty dumb in retrospect, but it all worked out.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else have a kid on the MacArthur? Anxious to see how it will move.

My kid was 130 or so last year for 9th grade and received an offer in July.

Did they accept? How is it? We're new here so doing all we can to learn. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how for prek3 I got matched with a school as my #2 pick but others who put it as their #1 pick got waitlisted?

Imagine there is an ice cream shop with many flavors of ice cream. Chocolate is your favor, then vanilla and then strawberry and so on. If you got to the counter and they were out of your favorite, you would ask for your next favorite on your list.

And every other person at the ice cream shop has their own personal list of favorite flavors in order.

The lottery number you receive is the random sequence that you are called to the counter to place your order. When you are called to the counter, you run through your own personal list of favorite flavors until you get to the first one they have in stock.

And then the next person is called to the counter to be served.

To whoever wrote this--I think it was the best explanation of how the lottery works that I have heard. This should be everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here we go...
We live in Mt. Pleasant. Besides the list below, we also have the option of an immersion charter in a language we care about (though not a high-demand like Spanish or Chinese), which involves either a commute in the opposite direction from our jobs or a parent-organized bus. We know parents there, but there's no good feeder option.

All the options on this list involve a bus or commute, but at least they'd be in the direction of our (federal worker) jobs, and tbh in neighborhoods we'd be happy to move to someday, assuming our incomes and future interest rates agree (for now, we're golden handcuffed to MtP via a prepandemic rate). fwiw, looking at the lottery history, a few - Hyde-Addison, Murch, etc - accepted more from the wait list last year than our current wait list number. Not sure we currently know any parents at any of them. But some of them feed to Deal (forgive my ignorance, does that apply to lottery kids too?)

The closest/easiest option for us in terms of commute...also not on this list...is actually a private school which has offered very generous financial aid, where we know several parents - but of course, the annual tuition would still exceed five figures, once you add in aftercare. And this is just kid 1 of 2.

Honest questions, if anyone has thoughts:
What is the likelihood that any of the schools on this list might come through - and if they do, are they worth the commitment over the relatively known quantities (to us) of an immersion charter that comes with a few asterisks, or a private that comes with a non-zero price tag?

And while I guess it's sort of a pointless exercise to ask "what would you do?" - since everyone has different calculations and different weights they give various factors, and also we're not including some pertinent (to us) details here - I am curious anyway!

--


1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #22

2 Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster) - English Dominant Waitlisted - #47

3 Hearst Elementary School Waitlisted - #27

4 Murch Elementary School Waitlisted - #16

5 Stoddert Elementary School Waitlisted - #33

6 Hyde-Addison Elementary School Waitlisted - #23

7 Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS Waitlisted - #22

8 Key Elementary School Match (enrollment pending)

We are at Key (in bounds) and I think something like 90%+ are IB. It's a great school (echoing another comment that it basically feels like a private school) but be ready that it's going to be tricky for playdates etc. My daughter only has one friend who is OOB and it's a real PITA to get to them for a playdate. Also Mt. Pleasant to Key in the afternoon is going to be a super long and annoying drive.

Honest question: is there any parent-pooled bus to other neighborhoods, as some other schools have? I'm guessing that if 90+% are IB the answer is no...but all it takes is, like, 10 kids and the math works out fairly well. Even a few hundred dollars a month in transportation costs is still a bargain for a "private school" experience...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here we go...
We live in Mt. Pleasant. Besides the list below, we also have the option of an immersion charter in a language we care about (though not a high-demand like Spanish or Chinese), which involves either a commute in the opposite direction from our jobs or a parent-organized bus. We know parents there, but there's no good feeder option.

All the options on this list involve a bus or commute, but at least they'd be in the direction of our (federal worker) jobs, and tbh in neighborhoods we'd be happy to move to someday, assuming our incomes and future interest rates agree (for now, we're golden handcuffed to MtP via a prepandemic rate). fwiw, looking at the lottery history, a few - Hyde-Addison, Murch, etc - accepted more from the wait list last year than our current wait list number. Not sure we currently know any parents at any of them. But some of them feed to Deal (forgive my ignorance, does that apply to lottery kids too?)

The closest/easiest option for us in terms of commute...also not on this list...is actually a private school which has offered very generous financial aid, where we know several parents - but of course, the annual tuition would still exceed five figures, once you add in aftercare. And this is just kid 1 of 2.

Honest questions, if anyone has thoughts:
What is the likelihood that any of the schools on this list might come through - and if they do, are they worth the commitment over the relatively known quantities (to us) of an immersion charter that comes with a few asterisks, or a private that comes with a non-zero price tag?

And while I guess it's sort of a pointless exercise to ask "what would you do?" - since everyone has different calculations and different weights they give various factors, and also we're not including some pertinent (to us) details here - I am curious anyway!

--


1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #22

2 Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster) - English Dominant Waitlisted - #47

3 Hearst Elementary School Waitlisted - #27

4 Murch Elementary School Waitlisted - #16

5 Stoddert Elementary School Waitlisted - #33

6 Hyde-Addison Elementary School Waitlisted - #23

7 Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS Waitlisted - #22

8 Key Elementary School Match (enrollment pending)

We are at Key (in bounds) and I think something like 90%+ are IB. It's a great school (echoing another comment that it basically feels like a private school) but be ready that it's going to be tricky for playdates etc. My daughter only has one friend who is OOB and it's a real PITA to get to them for a playdate. Also Mt. Pleasant to Key in the afternoon is going to be a super long and annoying drive.

Honest question: is there any parent-pooled bus from Key to other neighborhoods, as some other schools have? I'm guessing that if 90+% are IB the answer is no...but all it takes is, like, 10 kids and the math works out fairly well. Even a few hundred dollars a month in transportation costs is still a bargain for a "private school" experience...