Lists are in-- Swami is ready!
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Anonymous
It depends. Preschool class sizes are set by the adult-child ratio. But there are two seats reserved for Early Stages placements that don't happen until October, and can be used if there is a compelling reason (e.g., twins puts the school one kid over their target number but they are confident someone will leave before October because that is past experience. After preschool the class sizes can be bigger, schools have a target number but can go over and many build in an assumption of some attrition in August and September as waitlists move. There are also room physical capacity limits and fire caps for the building. |
Anonymous
What does this mean? I have twins that are matched at different schools and am getting a little antsy that there has been no movement on either waitlist (they are #1 on each other's waitlist). Will a school maybe let a twin in if there is no movement? What does the two spaces reserved for Early Stages mean? They will take from a different pool of kids rather than the waitlist?? |
Anonymous
I am the twin parent PP and related this might sound insensitive as I just looked up Early Stages and realize it is for kids who might need more assistance etc/ SN. Just moved to DC with rising PK4 twins so was not aware. But am still curious if that means that kids might be pulled in from Early Stages over kids on the lottery and the schools won't know until October if they are using those spots? We would love to have our twins at the same school and trying to temper expectations |
Anonymous
| Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in. |
Anonymous
Twin parent, 99% chance things will work out fine. Waitlists move at almost every school. How to handle enrollment and Early Stages spots is up to each school's principal so there is no set policy. My experience was from being a PTA leader at a school that let in all of its in-boundary PK3 and PK4 applicants on the assumption that not all would attend. But they did end up with a few kids too many in August. This was still within the adult-child ratio because the Early Stages seats had not yet been filled (since they only get filled if an eligible child is enrolled). So the school was able to use Early Stages spots for a few weeks and then through attrition those spots became available for Early Stages again. A school that did not have the same historical pattern or attrition might not have been allowed to do that. It was a way of temporarily coping with the unexpected. |
Anonymous
Thanks- I have looked at the data and one of the schools is LAMB which only has one year's worth of data and it was pandemic year so not necessarily indicative of much. They other is our IB and past few years has made only 1 or 2 offers for PK4 and certainly seems to leave IB kids on the waitlist (which is fine, it just doesn't sound like one of those schools the PP mentioned that lets in all in bounds and hopes for attrition). We have a June deadline to withdraw from the private preschool that is our backup so were hoping to learn before then! We are debating putting them both on waitlists for a nearby school that seems to go through its waitlist every year (we had listed it initially but it was dropped from our waitlist when we got the higher ranked match) in the hopes they might get spots but its not clear that would even happen before June. |
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breakthru #10 in may?
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i meant: we're #10 for breakthrough for pk 4. getting in ?
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Anonymous
For sure. |
Anonymous
| We started at 14 for Breakthrough and have now moved down to 6. Do they tend to make a lot of offers for prek4? |
Anonymous
| #5 at Hearst and #12 at Mann for PreK. Any chance we get into either? |
Anonymous
For LAMB, you really don't have to worry, I'm sure they will get your other twin in. In fact, you can just call the school and ask about it now. |
Anonymous
| breakthrough is combining schools so those who lived in petworth and were in PK3 may find a different school so past waitlist movement may not have any bearing on this year. |
Anonymous
I would give them a call. There's still a lot of time left, so I think it's just a matter of waiting a few weeks before you get it sorted out |
Anonymous
it would depend on their class set up and who is returning, right? |