Will waitlists at charters and public stop this week?

[Anonymous]

Both Latins moved for me this afternoon, one spot 5th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Basis was adamant when I called today that they were done moving their lists for the school year.

They might say that but if 10 kids withdrew from 5th grade tomorrow (highly unlikely I know) they would pull from the waitlist. That’s too much money to leave on the table.

I don’t know that they can say that. That’s obnoxious to say they are done when they are public school taking and reliant on public funds.

They can, they just don't get paid for the empty seats. However, they also don't get paid for enrolling kids over their cap, and I'm not sure what their cap actually is. You'd have to look in the charter agreement.

They get per pupil funding for the number of kids they enroll. Whether that is over or under their cap it doesn’t matter. As long as a kid is enrolled before count day, Basis gets that funding per student. That has nothing to do with charters versus DCPS, that’s law.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Basis was adamant when I called today that they were done moving their lists for the school year.

They might say that but if 10 kids withdrew from 5th grade tomorrow (highly unlikely I know) they would pull from the waitlist. That’s too much money to leave on the table.

I imagine they are probably assuming no one leaves and trying to prevent giving false hope (or get parents to stop calling about this). I doubt it is actually true.

[Anonymous]

BASIS dropped 8 more slots today. We are in the low teens. (I'm assuming bc of those kids who got into Cooper or WL 2nd)

[Anonymous]

Anyone move any other spots this week? Think we are done? We are hoping for DCI Spanish to move 4 more.

[Anonymous]

Latin Cooper 5th moved two spots for me today.

[Anonymous]

Both Latins and BASIS moved a couple more slots in the last 24 hours

[Anonymous]

Is there a time that they move or can it be any time? Will it move in the weekend or just weekdays? So not until Tuesday?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a time that they move or can it be any time? Will it move in the weekend or just weekdays? So not until Tuesday?

Whenever. They move when people exit the list, and they people can do that 24/7. The school registar can work weekends, in theory, sometimes they do that if they're having a Saturday open house and enrolling people on the spot. As we get closer to Count Day, schools will be trying very hard to fill every spot.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but do people think if you are #1 on a PK waitlist you will most likely get into the school? (It’s a JKLM, if that matters).

If someone leaves, you will. If nobody leaves, you won't. It's pretty random.

PK spots at those schools are tough, I wouldn’t get your hopes up

I know someone who got a PK4 spot at one of those schools in January. A child in the class moved away. So you never know.

[Anonymous]

Yes this is the week. They called and told me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Basis was adamant when I called today that they were done moving their lists for the school year.

They might say that but if 10 kids withdrew from 5th grade tomorrow (highly unlikely I know) they would pull from the waitlist. That’s too much money to leave on the table.

I don’t know that they can say that. That’s obnoxious to say they are done when they are public school taking and reliant on public funds.

They can, they just don't get paid for the empty seats. However, they also don't get paid for enrolling kids over their cap, and I'm not sure what their cap actually is. You'd have to look in the charter agreement.

They get per pupil funding for the number of kids they enroll. Whether that is over or under their cap it doesn’t matter. As long as a kid is enrolled before count day, Basis gets that funding per student. That has nothing to do with charters versus DCPS, that’s law.

The rule used to be that charters couldn't exceed their enrollment ceiling and wouldn't be paid for students enrolled above the ceiling. The charter board does projections with each charter each year that are basis for the initial per pupil payments. These projections can be exceeded and the school will be paid as long the overall number remains below the ceiling. Did that change?

[Anonymous]

Im number 1 at Latin 2nd. What are my odds I get in?

[Anonymous]

We got a charter spot (which we turned down) post count day. This was a charter that has been having problems, so I assume for them if someone leaves and they already received funding for that person, it may be worth it to try and fill the spot on the chance the person stays a second year and that’s one less spot they have to attempt to fill next year. But that would only apply to places that may anticipate trouble filling seats in the future (for example, TR, MV)

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Anonymous wrote:We got a charter spot (which we turned down) post count day. This was a charter that has been having problems, so I assume for them if someone leaves and they already received funding for that person, it may be worth it to try and fill the spot on the chance the person stays a second year and that’s one less spot they have to attempt to fill next year. But that would only apply to places that may anticipate trouble filling seats in the future (for example, TR, MV)

They won’t receive that funding until after count day which is early October. It is advantageous for all schools to fill a spot if a student leaves until that day or they don’t get the funding for that student.