S/o - for parents who are in PS/PK NOW, when/where/how long?
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Anonymous
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For all the families getting ready to sweat out the time between now and "Count Day" in October (supposedly the official end of school acceptance season), would you share some information please? If getting in somewhere is truly easier than the lotteries suggest, would you please share the following?
What SY year did you apply for? (e.g., fall 2012, fall 2011...) What grade? (e.g., PS3, PK4, K...) What schools did you apply to? (DCPS and charter) What schools were you accepted to? (DCPS and especially charter, since theoretically you could get into more than one) How did you get in? (Did you get in immediately, or were you on one or more waitlist?) If you were offered one or more spots from a WL, which schools and when were you offered? (e.g., got off ABC school WL in June, DEF school in Aug., got a call from GHI in Sept., never heard from XYZ...) Do you remember your WL numbers? (from schools that you did and/or did not get into) For example: Fall 2012 PS3 DCPS: Stoddert, Eaton, Ross, Bancroft, HD Cooke, Marie Reed Charters: AppleTree (Columbia Heights), Bridges, Cap City, CM, Haynes, IT, LAMB, MV, Stokes, 2R Accepted: HD Cooke, AppleTree, Bridges, CM Got HD Cooke and CM via lottery AppleTree #40s in WL, got a call in July Bridges #40s in WL, called end of Aug Never got off other WLs (CC in 200s, Haynes in 100s, don't remember others) picked Bridges |
Anonymous
| Sorry. Don't feel like taking this test. |
Anonymous
| That's a lot of work when we're all holding our breath for lottery results (or still traumatized by not getting any calls from schools who have called admitted families already). Might be better to bring this up after Count day in Oct... |
Anonymous
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Whoa! That's a lot of information to REMEMBER! It's all a blur to me. I mean, it's been A YEAR! Besides, how is the information going to help you? Some people get lucky, others don't. You can rationalize this or make a statistic out of it that will help you figure out what your situation will be.
Really, just breathe, sit back and wait. There's nothing you can do at this point and all these gathering of information will make you even more anxious. |
Anonymous
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I'll bite.
Fall 2012 PS3 DCPS: Barnard, Cleveland DL, Marie Reed DL, ???? Charters: Pretty much all of them Accepted: Barnard (proximity), AppleTree, Bridges Got Barnard and AppleTree via lottery Bridges #60s in WL, emailed mid-Aug Never got off other WLs picked Bridges |
Anonymous
| PP, do you like Bridges and are you staying next year? Why did you not pick Barnard (that's our IB and right now our only choice). Thanks. |
Anonymous
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OP again,
Sorry, I didn't mean to make it hard. Even if you only remember a few things, it would still help. It's better than nothing. This is a stressful time.  It's one thing to tell myself to relax and breathe - and I try - but information helps.
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Anonymous
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be hard on you, but for real, this info won't help. You may get super lucky and get in the school you want or you may not. For all I remember we didn't get in anywhere at first, but were later called by Apple Tree, Bridges, Barnard and Marie Reed. What I picked doesn't matter. I am not staying with it. Several friends picked Bridges and I have not heard one complaint from them. |
Anonymous
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Fall 2011
PK DCPS: Janney, Hearst, Lafayette, Mann, Murch, Eaton Charters Yu Ying, Mundo Verde. Cap City, Accepted outright in lottery: Yu Ying, Mundo Verde, Accepted off waitlist: Janney (~#10, heard in June) Hearst (~#75, heard in August) Never heard from the other DCPS or Cap City picked Janney |
Anonymous
THis is what I mean. Here's an example from someone who got SUPER lucky... and then you hear from people who wasn't ever called by any schools. So, to go and gather this data, as I said before, will only make you more anxious. |
Anonymous
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I'll play.
In 2012 we applied our child for PS3 at usual list of DCPS schools (all OOB) and all the charters you mentioned. We were in the 40s for a charter that we would have been happy with but would have been extremely difficult for commute reasons and moved up to have a spot by late May. We were in the 70s on the waitlist fpr the charter where we ended up and received the call the first week of school. We also received a call later that month from a different charter where we were so high on the wait list I don't remember the number, but our child was settled and we loved the teacher and didn't consider moving. Once we had our first spot confirmed in May we tried not to give things any more thought beyond preparing our child be excited to begin school. |
Anonymous
We like Bridges, and will likely stay. We picked Bridges over Barnard for a few reasons. Bridges was started as a PS/PK school only, and their early childhood education program is strong. There is also a focus on inclusive education and they have a number of students with special needs, some of whom are integrated into the classroom, and some of whom are in separate classes. Because of this, the teacher/student ratios are low (2:18 for PS and PK), and each child, regardless of ability, is evaluated and met where they are. The attention seems to be very individualized, though I don't have anything else to compare it to. We've also heard good things about Barnard, but we weren't sure we'd stay through 4th/5th. We chose Bridges because we will likely only be there for a few years (ultimately, we want language immersion, so we did play the lotteries again hoping for a spot in a language charter), and wanted the strongest PS/PK program as well as the option of staying through elementary (assuming Bridges continues on its great trajectory). |
Anonymous
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Fall 2010
PK4 Got into Stoddert and Bridges via lottery, waitlisted at YY and Haynes, never got into either. Picked Stoddert, very happy. |
Anonymous
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And I'm someone who was super unlucky
Last year for PS3: DCPS: Applied Logan, Tyler SI, Miner, Ludlow-Taylor, JO Wilson and Payne Accepted J.O. Wilson and Payne (WL of 50-something) Charters: MV, IT, Cap City, LAMB, Stokes, EL Haynes, Two Rivers, Bethune Accepted at Bethune, nowhere else Stayed at private preschool. Does that help? |
Anonymous
| PP, why did you apply for schools you had no intention of accepting? The DCPS lottery didn't require you to pick six schools, so why use a spot for J.O and Payne when it wasn't within the realm of possibility? I'm not trying to be a PIA, just curious to understand your thinking. |