Lottery results are up

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I was hoping for slightly better numbers, but as expected I'll be watching waitlists all summer and fall, looks like. But we matched with John Lewis which we're excited about!

For K:
1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #24
2 Garrison Elementary School Waitlisted - #10
3 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlisted - #17
4 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School Waitlisted - #6
5 John Lewis Elementary School Match (enrollment pending)
6 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland Sibling Offered Waitlisted - #1

For 1st Grade:
1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #45
2 Garrison Elementary School Waitlisted - #20
3 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlisted - #35
4 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School Waitlisted - #8
5 John Lewis Elementary School Sibling Offered Waitlisted - #1
6 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland Match (enrollment pending)

We put Lee down without much thought and will be turning down that offer - but is it just me or is it crazy that we got an offer for 1st from them with what must be a pretty crappy lottery number? They must be really falling in popularity.

Folks with "really crappy lottery numbers" get waitlist numbers in the hundreds. Looks like you got a fairly decent lottery number, all things considered.

PP here. No, not for 1st grade at these schools. Here's the number my rising 1st grader got vs the length of the waitlist last year for 1st at each school:

Ross - 45/65
Garrison - 20/22
ITDS - 35/48
EL Haynes - 8/21
John Lewis - Not relevant, as that #1 is clearly b/c of sibling preference

We'll have to wait until the Tableau dash is updated for this year to say for sure - maybe Garrison was a little more popular this year, maybe Haynes was a little less popular, but overall, I'd guess his lottery number was in the bottom 30%. That's pretty crappy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I was hoping for slightly better numbers, but as expected I'll be watching waitlists all summer and fall, looks like. But we matched with John Lewis which we're excited about!

For K:
1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #24
2 Garrison Elementary School Waitlisted - #10
3 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlisted - #17
4 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School Waitlisted - #6
5 John Lewis Elementary School Match (enrollment pending)
6 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland Sibling Offered Waitlisted - #1

For 1st Grade:
1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #45
2 Garrison Elementary School Waitlisted - #20
3 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlisted - #35
4 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School Waitlisted - #8
5 John Lewis Elementary School Sibling Offered Waitlisted - #1
6 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland Match (enrollment pending)

We put Lee down without much thought and will be turning down that offer - but is it just me or is it crazy that we got an offer for 1st from them with what must be a pretty crappy lottery number? They must be really falling in popularity.

Folks with "really crappy lottery numbers" get waitlist numbers in the hundreds. Looks like you got a fairly decent lottery number, all things considered.

PP here. No, not for 1st grade at these schools. Here's the number my rising 1st grader got vs the length of the waitlist last year for 1st at each school:

Ross - 45/65
Garrison - 20/22
ITDS - 35/48
EL Haynes - 8/21
John Lewis - Not relevant, as that #1 is clearly b/c of sibling preference

We'll have to wait until the Tableau dash is updated for this year to say for sure - maybe Garrison was a little more popular this year, maybe Haynes was a little less popular, but overall, I'd guess his lottery number was in the bottom 30%. That's pretty crappy.

"The length of the waitlist last year"? Or the number of admits off the waitlist last year? (Obviously the waitlist length tells you nothing about your chances of getting an offer...the number of admits off the waitlist doesn't tell you much more - but in theory it's a vaguely more useful metric)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I was hoping for slightly better numbers, but as expected I'll be watching waitlists all summer and fall, looks like. But we matched with John Lewis which we're excited about!

For K:
1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #24
2 Garrison Elementary School Waitlisted - #10
3 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlisted - #17
4 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School Waitlisted - #6
5 John Lewis Elementary School Match (enrollment pending)
6 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland Sibling Offered Waitlisted - #1

For 1st Grade:
1 Ross Elementary School Waitlisted - #45
2 Garrison Elementary School Waitlisted - #20
3 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlisted - #35
4 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School Waitlisted - #8
5 John Lewis Elementary School Sibling Offered Waitlisted - #1
6 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland Match (enrollment pending)

We put Lee down without much thought and will be turning down that offer - but is it just me or is it crazy that we got an offer for 1st from them with what must be a pretty crappy lottery number? They must be really falling in popularity.

Folks with "really crappy lottery numbers" get waitlist numbers in the hundreds. Looks like you got a fairly decent lottery number, all things considered.

PP here. No, not for 1st grade at these schools. Here's the number my rising 1st grader got vs the length of the waitlist last year for 1st at each school:

Ross - 45/65
Garrison - 20/22
ITDS - 35/48
EL Haynes - 8/21
John Lewis - Not relevant, as that #1 is clearly b/c of sibling preference

We'll have to wait until the Tableau dash is updated for this year to say for sure - maybe Garrison was a little more popular this year, maybe Haynes was a little less popular, but overall, I'd guess his lottery number was in the bottom 30%. That's pretty crappy.

"The length of the waitlist last year"? Or the number of admits off the waitlist last year? (Obviously the waitlist length tells you nothing about your chances of getting an offer...the number of admits off the waitlist doesn't tell you much more - but in theory it's a vaguely more useful metric)

PP here - these numbers are the length of the waitlist last year. Agree, that tells you nothing about his chances of getting an offer, but this particular post was in response to someone who said they thought his lottery number was actually decent. I'm using these numbers simply to show that his number wasn't decent - it was likely in the bottom 30%. I mean, you can't have waitlist numbers "in the hundreds" when all the waitlists in question, historically, are 65 people or smaller.

He won't get any offers via his lottery number, except maybe EL Haynes. He'll be riding sibling preference for sure - his little sister's number IS decent, though not amazing, so those are the numbers we're focused on!

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to list length of waitlist at schools post-results? Or at what point in the year does that data get shared publicly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to list length of waitlist at schools post-results? Or at what point in the year does that data get shared publicly?

iirc it shows up in the MSDC Data system starting in May, when they post the first round of stats (on total waitlist offers by May 1) (?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we got into a school we'd be thrilled to attend for K - here's the rest of the list (we might move around the order a bit) - we were OOB for our entire list and nabbed a top 5 school so we'll be happy either way, but...

1 Murch Elementary School Waitlisted - #18
2 Hearst Elementary School Waitlisted - #21
3 Janney Elementary School Waitlisted - #29
4 Lafayette Elementary School Waitlisted - #22

The main/only issue we have with our current option is: Hardy-MacArthur, not Deal-JR. Looking at the past few years, it looks like we could have gotten pushed down 5-10 spots at Hearst by siblings and new IB arrivals and still have gotten in 4 of the past 5 years; similar at Lafayette in 2 of the past 3 years (last year, could have been pushed down 20 more spots and still gotten in.) The other schools - probably no chance?

But this isn't our first trip to the rodeo, we know every year is different, and there can be individual factors pro and con that make the difference...any intel - and cold, hard reality based assessments of our chances - welcome! Thanks

With those numbers, I'm curious where you got in for K. We are low on the waitlist for Hardy feeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we got into a school we'd be thrilled to attend for K - here's the rest of the list (we might move around the order a bit) - we were OOB for our entire list and nabbed a top 5 school so we'll be happy either way, but...

1 Murch Elementary School Waitlisted - #18
2 Hearst Elementary School Waitlisted - #21
3 Janney Elementary School Waitlisted - #29
4 Lafayette Elementary School Waitlisted - #22

The main/only issue we have with our current option is: Hardy-MacArthur, not Deal-JR. Looking at the past few years, it looks like we could have gotten pushed down 5-10 spots at Hearst by siblings and new IB arrivals and still have gotten in 4 of the past 5 years; similar at Lafayette in 2 of the past 3 years (last year, could have been pushed down 20 more spots and still gotten in.) The other schools - probably no chance?

But this isn't our first trip to the rodeo, we know every year is different, and there can be individual factors pro and con that make the difference...any intel - and cold, hard reality based assessments of our chances - welcome! Thanks

With those numbers, I'm curious where you got in for K. We are low on the waitlist for Hardy feeders.

My guess is Key

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we got into a school we'd be thrilled to attend for K - here's the rest of the list (we might move around the order a bit) - we were OOB for our entire list and nabbed a top 5 school so we'll be happy either way, but...

1 Murch Elementary School Waitlisted - #18
2 Hearst Elementary School Waitlisted - #21
3 Janney Elementary School Waitlisted - #29
4 Lafayette Elementary School Waitlisted - #22

The main/only issue we have with our current option is: Hardy-MacArthur, not Deal-JR. Looking at the past few years, it looks like we could have gotten pushed down 5-10 spots at Hearst by siblings and new IB arrivals and still have gotten in 4 of the past 5 years; similar at Lafayette in 2 of the past 3 years (last year, could have been pushed down 20 more spots and still gotten in.) The other schools - probably no chance?

But this isn't our first trip to the rodeo, we know every year is different, and there can be individual factors pro and con that make the difference...any intel - and cold, hard reality based assessments of our chances - welcome! Thanks

With those numbers, I'm curious where you got in for K. We are low on the waitlist for Hardy feeders.

My guess is Key

OP here: we got into Key for PK4 (but couldn't make the logistics work for Palisades)...this year, we got into Hyde-Addison, which is much more doable for us. OOB for both.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, I'm confused about the enrollment process. I'm at a DCPS school and have gotten a lottery seat at a different DCPS school. Clicking on the various links leads me to Aspen, and I can see my kids' accounts there. The home page of Aspen says:

“To Re-Enroll students and other forms” = RE-ENROLLING students are categorized as:
• Any Current DCPS Student:
• Students who are currently enrolled in any DCPS school, including students being assessed by Early Stages, during the current school year.
• Students who are transferring from any DCPS elementary to middle or middle to high school.
• Students transferring from one DCPS school to another DCPS school.


So I think that's us (transferring from one DCPS school to another DCPS school) but when I go to the form, there's no way to indicate a school. I don't want to accidentally re-enroll in my current school. Am I doing this right? Will there be like a drop down at the end where I choose the actual school.

I live in fear of accidentally turning down my spot at the new school!

There will be a drop-down menu and you absolutely should make sure you choose the right school!

But if you have questions, call the admin at the new school right now.

Thank you! Which page has the drop down menu?

Residency verification tab.

Did selecting the school under the residency verification drop down menu work for you? I fear I am re-enrolling in old school not new school too!