2020-2021 Lottery Results

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Anonymous wrote:PK3, bad number

School-Within-School 446
Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street 278
Two Rivers PCS at Young 119
Peabody Elementary School In-boundary 45
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - Calle Ocho Campus 306
AppleTree PCS - Lincoln Park 112
Tyler Elementary School Proximity 24
Payne Elementary School Proximity 47
J.O. Wilson Elementary School 77
Miner Elementary School 69
Lee Montessori PCS - East End 22
AppleTree PCS - Oklahoma Ave Match

Whoa, that is the worst I've seen so far. You aren't going to get in anywhere else.

I have similar results. How is it even possible to have that many in-boundary 3 year olds on the waitlist for Peabody? Are there even that many 3 year olds in the catchment?

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Anonymous wrote:I am in shock. Our third grader got into SWS and pulled in the younger siblings. We are at a Hill school we like, it is a hard choice. DH has already said he wants to decline (swing space too much of a pain). I am glad we have until May to make a decision.

What Hill school? I'd lean against if you like your current school. The idea of making your 3rd grader leave all of their friends for two years of trailers just in time for most of their class to try to leave for Latin or Basis sounds crazy, TBH. You'd be doing it for the younger sibs (which your oldest will understand and resent); I could see doing it if you didn't like your current school, but given that you do...? This is one of those just because you got the bright shiny object doesn't mean you want it type scenarios.

This. Not worth it.

Agreed. It's not like you'd get a better feeder by switching, either. If you like your current school through the testing grades, which it seems you do, I wouldn't leave.

I realize I should have said that this is a current 3rd grader/heading into 4th. We are at Ludlow Taylor.

I would not make that move. LT feeds into SH. No one in their right mind would choose EH over SH. And you are really happy at LT (which matches the experience of everyone I know at LT). It isn't like you are sacrificing the younger kid for the older kid; the younger kid would presumably also be really happy at LT.

I would not make this move in a million years. Just for 4th and 5th? At LT, most kids go to SH; a few leave for Basis/Latin in 5th, but many stick around. At SWS, at least half the class has historically left after 4th because no one wants EH. So you'd be moving your kid away from all of his/her friends just for 4th AND 5th grades in a trailer, when the 5th grade will be less 50% of the class? If you're thinking of lotterying for Basis/Latin, this makes even less sense... pulling your kid from their last year at LT for the 50% in a trailer figure it out/chaos year at SWS? No thanks. I would be more likely to make the opposite move if I had a rising 4th grader. (Although, in general, if a kid is happy in 3rd grade at a school, I wouldn't move them.)

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Anonymous wrote:PK3, bad number

School-Within-School 446
Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street 278
Two Rivers PCS at Young 119
Peabody Elementary School In-boundary 45
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - Calle Ocho Campus 306
AppleTree PCS - Lincoln Park 112
Tyler Elementary School Proximity 24
Payne Elementary School Proximity 47
J.O. Wilson Elementary School 77
Miner Elementary School 69
Lee Montessori PCS - East End 22
AppleTree PCS - Oklahoma Ave Match

Whoa, that is the worst I've seen so far. You aren't going to get in anywhere else.

I have similar results. How is it even possible to have that many in-boundary 3 year olds on the waitlist for Peabody? Are there even that many 3 year olds in the catchment?

The Peabody/Watkins catchment is legitimately enormous. It's like half of the Hill.

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Anonymous wrote:PK3, bad number

School-Within-School 446
Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street 278
Two Rivers PCS at Young 119
Peabody Elementary School In-boundary 45
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - Calle Ocho Campus 306
AppleTree PCS - Lincoln Park 112
Tyler Elementary School Proximity 24
Payne Elementary School Proximity 47
J.O. Wilson Elementary School 77
Miner Elementary School 69
Lee Montessori PCS - East End 22
AppleTree PCS - Oklahoma Ave Match

Whoa, that is the worst I've seen so far. You aren't going to get in anywhere else.

I have similar results. How is it even possible to have that many in-boundary 3 year olds on the waitlist for Peabody? Are there even that many 3 year olds in the catchment?

Each PK3 classroom is limited to 16 kids. So yes, even though Peabody has 4 PK3 classrooms, there are way more 3 year olds within the huge cluster boundary.

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Anonymous wrote:I am in shock. Our third grader got into SWS and pulled in the younger siblings. We are at a Hill school we like, it is a hard choice. DH has already said he wants to decline (swing space too much of a pain). I am glad we have until May to make a decision.

What Hill school? I'd lean against if you like your current school. The idea of making your 3rd grader leave all of their friends for two years of trailers just in time for most of their class to try to leave for Latin or Basis sounds crazy, TBH. You'd be doing it for the younger sibs (which your oldest will understand and resent); I could see doing it if you didn't like your current school, but given that you do...? This is one of those just because you got the bright shiny object doesn't mean you want it type scenarios.

This. Not worth it.

Agreed. It's not like you'd get a better feeder by switching, either. If you like your current school through the testing grades, which it seems you do, I wouldn't leave.

I realize I should have said that this is a current 3rd grader/heading into 4th. We are at Ludlow Taylor.

I would not make that move. LT feeds into SH. No one in their right mind would choose EH over SH. And you are really happy at LT (which matches the experience of everyone I know at LT). It isn't like you are sacrificing the younger kid for the older kid; the younger kid would presumably also be really happy at LT.

On the flip side, if they want to try SWS they'd still have rights to SH as long as they live IB for LT or another school that feeds it. It's not like moving to SWS removes the chance at SH (unless the feeder rules change, which I doubt).

I was thinking SWS for my rising 4th grader, just because I've lotteried for it every year since PK3(!) but finally gave it up this year. The trailers + the fact that my kid actually enjoys his school made me think it wasn't worth it. I can understand your dilemma though, because of your younger kids. LT is a good school though, so I'd stay.

I've been so pleasantly surprised by LT. Lots of the families on our street with older kids don't or didn't use it, so I sort of figured we'd use it for PK and then keep lotterying. We love it. A lot of the kids in my kids class have older sibs at the school (I think 9 of 20, which is kind of crazy) and all of the families we spoke to said they were happy up through the testing grades (though, admittedly, most siblings are 1st or 2nd), so we decided to stick w/ it for the long haul. Only put LT for our PK3er and didn't lottery for our Ker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After 2 years of terrible lottery scores, we got our first choice for Kindergarten: Inspired Teaching.

Congrats! Always good to hear positive outcomes.

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#10 at YY
Looks like we might get in?

All other schools are WL in high double digits

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Anonymous wrote:PK3, bad number

School-Within-School 446
Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street 278
Two Rivers PCS at Young 119
Peabody Elementary School In-boundary 45
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - Calle Ocho Campus 306
AppleTree PCS - Lincoln Park 112
Tyler Elementary School Proximity 24
Payne Elementary School Proximity 47
J.O. Wilson Elementary School 77
Miner Elementary School 69
Lee Montessori PCS - East End 22
AppleTree PCS - Oklahoma Ave Match

Whoa, that is the worst I've seen so far. You aren't going to get in anywhere else.

I have similar results. How is it even possible to have that many in-boundary 3 year olds on the waitlist for Peabody? Are there even that many 3 year olds in the catchment?

Yes, there are. People stay for Peabody and leave in Watkins.

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I was also wondering if Marie Reed's Spanish dominant waitlist is treated any differently than the English one. We are #18.

Last year the Spanish dominant PK3 waitlist made two offers by October, the year before none. The Spanish dominant PK4 waitlist made 9 offers last year and 4 the year before. It's treated as it's own separate list with a separate set of kids, but otherwise is a waitlist like any other.

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Anonymous wrote:Matched for pk3 at Kingsbury and I can’t believe it. I thought it was such a long shot I did not attend the open house. So I guess I just believe the DCUM hype and enroll since visiting might be out of the question?

*LAMB Kingsbury. I’m so exhausted.

I am a LAMB parent who can’t say enough good things about the school. Definitely go ahead and enroll, and welcome!

Yeah you can’t visit because...they’re closed. So just enroll. If school reopens, ask for a tour, but it will be at another building of course.

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I was also wondering if Marie Reed's Spanish dominant waitlist is treated any differently than the English one. We are #18.

Last year the Spanish dominant PK3 waitlist made two offers by October, the year before none. The Spanish dominant PK4 waitlist made 9 offers last year and 4 the year before. It's treated as it's own separate list with a separate set of kids, but otherwise is a waitlist like any other.

Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:#11 on the waitlist at LAMB Kingsbury for PK3; #7 at DC Bilingual. Any idea what our chances would be like at either?

We were lower than that at DCB I think and never got in. Actually never moved at all really.

LAMB seems possible though? Not really any way to know for sure because no relevant
Historic data but may be likely.

[Anonymous]

Grade 6

In - DCI (French)
WL - Hardy, Deal, and Stuart Hobson (my likeliest WL)

Pretty happy with DCI as its a good fit for DC.

[Anonymous]

We got into Lee East End as well and are thrilled! Loved every teacher we met, have friends that went last year and love it, and they have a brand new campus on a quiet block right off Penn Ave. Hope to see you there

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids:

PK3:
1. Stokes Brookland (French) - #12
2. Lee Brookland - Match


1st Grade:
1. Stokes Brookland (French) - #39
2. Lee Brookland - #2


I assume good chance 1st grader will get offer from Lee? We are happy with Lee but since we are coming from an overseas French school wondering what chances are for Stokes for both kids with these numbers?

Highly unlikely for Stokes. Last year, 6 on the WL were offered spots for PreK3, none for 1st. The 1st grader doesn't have a shot unless sibling gets in and a spot opens.