2024 Lottery Results

[Anonymous]

Matched Eliot-Hine
#21 Waitlist for Stuart Hobson

Incoming 6th Grader

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We ended up with #2 on the waitlist at School Within School, but we don’t have any sibling preference. Does anybody have a rough guess at what our odds might look like?

Depends on what grade - look at last year's here https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

[Anonymous]

K: In at SWS

3rd Grade
SWS: #1 (sibling offered)
Maury: #3 (proximity)
Ludlow Taylor: #15
Payne: #11
Tyler: #6

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Anonymous wrote:6th grader at Basis, with 3rd grade sibling at Lamb. 6th grader was not liking Basis, so tried the lottery. Got a waitlist #5 at DCI....because of the sibling preference for the 3rd grader. Wild.

Congrats though - hope your kid gets out of BASIS.

[Anonymous]

Matched at Amidon for PK3 (IB)

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Anonymous wrote:First time doing the lottery after just moving to DC...

Applying to PK3, and we're inbounds for Ludlow-Taylor, where we are waitlisted #10 (and with so bad waitlist number for other schools that they're all irrelevant)

In 21-22, 4 offers were made by June and 9 by October
In 22-23, 6 offers were made by June and 11 by October
In 23-24, 0 offers were made by June and 14 by October,

So based on that, there seems to be a fairly good chance that we will get a spot sometime during the fall/winter, is that right? (i.e., in the previous two years we would have gotten a spot by October, and just missed out in 21-22?).

Thanks in advance!

Most schools don't make any spots available after count day, which is in mid September. So if you don't get in the first few weeks of school, you probably won't.

I have known LT to make post count day offers for PK, but in situations where there is an older sibling enrolled. Not exactly sure how that works.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question: we matched at Sela (we put it lower on our list but we speak the language at home, so that would actually be a bonus) and got #15 WL at SWWFS. Prior years suggests little movement off the list before August or even October, but that this result is fairly likely to get an admissions offer. SWWFS is slightly easier from a commute perspective, though not necessarily enough to make a difference, especially with the van service from our neighborhood to Sela.
A few questions for the hive mind:

--This is our first lottery. How secure is a "match" if we don't enroll until much later?

--if the WL offers go as late as October...what do people tend to do in August and September?

--most importantly - feeder status aside for a moment - is there a clear academic choice at the PK and elementary level? are there any issues with either that would give the other an advantage? Looking at the rankings and assessments (such as they are), I'm not sure ...

I love Sela, our child loves Sela, and it has been fantastic in generally every way. The only reason we are (considering) leaving is to secure a middle school feeder pattern. I would regret leaving though

Did you lottery and match somewhere else? Where?

Curious to know (if you’ll tell) what school you’d leave Sela for.

Yes. I was a poster above. We matched at Key, and plan to enroll unless we get in a waitlist school of

Shepherd (WL # 7)
Lafayette (WL # 4)
Mann (WL # 1)
Murch (WL # 3)
Janney (WL # 3)

Which are really just ordered in terms of commute. All wonderful schools.

We're EOTP, zoned for Wells (fine) and Coolidge (currently not fine). I'd rather enroll in a good feeder now then face getting shut out in 5th and 6th and having to move (if we could even afford it). If we could be assured Deal/Basis/Latin/Hardy, then we'd stay at Sela through 5th.

Smart move!!!!

It’s looks like Sela will eventually feed into Deal, so you will likely see those kids again at some point.

Um. Sela is a charter. What is this nonsense?

Um. It’s a DME recommendation that came up during the boundary revision process. There are a handful of immersion programs in the city who do not have a MS/HS path and the city’s idea is to create charter-DCPS programs that would be housed at different DCPS throughout the city, and Sela to Deal is one of the possibilities under discussion.

I'm an advisory committee member and have never heard this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:K: In at SWS

3rd Grade
SWS: #1 (sibling offered)
Maury: #3 (proximity)
Ludlow Taylor: #15
Payne: #11
Tyler: #6

Seems like a great lottery year for you then?

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Anonymous wrote:K: In at SWS

3rd Grade
SWS: #1 (sibling offered)
Maury: #3 (proximity)
Ludlow Taylor: #15
Payne: #11
Tyler: #6

Seems like a great lottery year for you then?

I appreciate that a random process will result in this, but one household getting two great lottery numbers seems so unreal.

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Anonymous wrote:For PK-4:

SWW@FS: WL#8
Marie Reed ES:WL #18
The Riverseed School: WL #1
Matched at Stevens ELC

Already at Amidon would we have a chance at SWW or MR realistically?

Are you so unhappy with Amidon that you would switch to Stevens for a year, and then have to switch again for k? Odds at sww and Mr aren't great.

I’m going to decline Stevens it was a toss up. We actually got off the WL last yr for SWW the enrollment folks screwed up. Hopefully things work out so if it doesn’t work out I’ll try again.

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Seal to Deal sounds like Deal-usion.

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Sela

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Anonymous wrote:Seal to Deal sounds like Deal-usion.

But in a world where the city gave a nice piece of real estate to Lab School, a private school, against public objections, who knows what semi-corrupt backroom deals might happen, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Matched at Amidon for PK3 (IB)

Excellent! I have spent time in the school and while it isn't perfect, it's really impressive to see how the teachers, staff, and administration seem to know and care about each kid.

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Matched at Garrison for pk-3. We’re in-bound and it was our first choice. Enrolled today!