When will waitlist info come out?

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Move or don’t, go private or don’t, but never trust a DCUM poster who uses the word “burbs.”

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Anonymous wrote:OK, DCI feeder data. Overall this indicates that there is a little bit of room for non-feeder kids, but not very much, and if don't have some kind of preference it's tremendously unlikely.

Yu Ying: 70 allocated slots at DCI (basing these on the presentation I saw at a DCI open house). 48 YY kids matched with DCI (15 were siblings). Nobody waitlisted. For the non-YY Chinese track, 8 seats offered and matched, 5 siblings and 3 no preference.

Stokes French: 20 seats at DCI. At Brookland, 10 matches and 8 kids waitlisted. 6 matches were siblings. At East End, 10 matches and 2 waitlisted, none were siblings. For non-feeder French, 2 seats offered and matched, both siblings.

Stokes Spanish: 20 seats at DCI. At Brookland, 16 matches and 2 waitlisted. 6 were siblings. At East End, 4 matches and 0 waitlisted, none siblings. I'm curious why the French was 10/10 and the Spanish split 16/4, I guess they pre-set it based on what they expect the demand to be?

MV: 70 slots at DCI. 56 DCI seats offered at 54 matched. 8 were siblings. So that indicates 2 kids could have matched with DCI, but didn't.

LAMB: 50 slots at DCI. 34 seats offered, 33 matches (14 siblings).

DCB: 50 slots at DCI. 50 matches (24 were siblings) and 8 waitlisted.

For non-feeder Spanish, 3 seats offered and matched, all siblings.
It will be interesting to cross this data with the OSSE enrollment audit data to see the size of the 5th grade classes.

It's also interesting how the special DCI preferences "Sibling Attending - DCI Member" and "Sibling Offered - DCI Member" seem to not be utilized at all.

Where are you getting 70 seats for YY, 50 for LAMB and MV?

Waitlist data says YY 48 seats and all 48 seats matched
Stokes 20 seats, 20 seats matched
DCB 50 seats, 50 matched
MV 56 seats, 54 matched
LAMB 34 seats, 33 matched

[Anonymous]

Looks like what few seats open to non-feeder kids at DCI get filled with siblings. There is no chance if you are not from a feeder or have no sibling at the school.

[Anonymous]

Wow, Inspired teaching loses a lot of kids in 5th and 6th grade, about 1/2 the kids in the grade. That is a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, Inspired teaching loses a lot of kids in 5th and 6th grade, about 1/2 the kids in the grade. That is a lot.

It’s tough. For 5th, a bunch of kids get into or follow older siblings to middle schools that feed to their own high schools like Latin or Basis. A handful of kids live in boundary for Deal or head to DCI (French track as far as I know) for 6th.

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The length of popular middle school waitlists grew substantially in the years right before the pandemic, got shorter during the years right after the pandemic and/or with the opening of Latin Cooper, and are now again as long as ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlist for Latin 1 and Latin 2 is 429 and 338. That is crazy long.

The BASIS waitlist jumped too. By a lot.

Tough year.

This year, BASIS admitted 140, with 235 on WL. They also admitted 10 EA, with 10 on the WL.

Last year, they admitted 150, with 168 on the WL.

Two years ago, they admitted 135, with 155 on the WL.

Definitely a big jump this year.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get why some schools, like Latin or Basis, start in 5th grade when most (all?) DC elementary schools go through 5th grade. Anyone know why?

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I hadn't realized that Appletree was keeping the SW location and opening the new place (called "Waterfront Station"). Neither of them filled all offered spots so they're definitely options for people who need a PK spot. Eagle Academy Cap Riverfront is also a post-lottery choice...good news given that Amidon and Van Ness have significant waitlists.

Also for those who didn't get in to BASIS or Latin and want another 5th grade option, there were only 3 people on the JO Wilson waitlist and Thomson had 2 seats they didn't fill so there are paths into Stuart-Hobson or SWW F-S.

Ellington didn't fill all its museum studies spots but I think I remember someone posting on here that their kid was deemed ineligible. That really sucks. Also the lottery results don't seem to match the courses mentioned on the DESA website (there aren't results for literary arts, for example).

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why some schools, like Latin or Basis, start in 5th grade when most (all?) DC elementary schools go through 5th grade. Anyone know why?

Because they asked to and the charter school board allowed them to.
They say it's to give them another year to get kids ready for high school.
That may be part of it but it's also so they have less competition.

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Anonymous wrote:Move or don’t, go private or don’t, but never trust a DCUM poster who uses the word “burbs.”

What is there to trust? Facts are facts. Truth hurts don’t it?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why some schools, like Latin or Basis, start in 5th grade when most (all?) DC elementary schools go through 5th grade. Anyone know why?

Because they asked to and the charter school board allowed them to.
They say it's to give them another year to get kids ready for high school.
That may be part of it but it's also so they have less competition.

No kids at either school but it’s really so they can try to get some of these kids who are so behind extra support and ready to 6th. Also to help kids develop executive functioning skills, organization, etc..

I doubt the initial goal was less competition. Less competition than what? Eastern, Jefferson, Cardoza, or MacFarland??? Come on.

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For BASIS, the building in downtown DC is too small to include an elementary school as well. They started with a middle and high school but hoped to expand to K-4 at a different location.

BASIS is now pursuing an expansion to K-4 at a second campus but haven't selected a site in DC yet.

The other BASIS charter schools around the country generally go K-12, either at one campus or two. Sometime new BASIS schools don't go to K-12 but expand later. So, for example, the BASIS school in Austin, TX is K-8 but BASIS plans on opening more schools in that area, and will include high school at some point.

[Anonymous]

For BASIS, the building in downtown DC is too small to include an elementary school as well. They started with a middle and high school but hoped to expand to K-4 at a different location.

BASIS is now pursuing an expansion to K-4 at a second campus but haven't selected a site in DC yet.

The other BASIS charter schools around the country generally go K-12, either at one campus or two. Sometime new BASIS schools don't go to K-12 but expand later. So, for example, the BASIS school in Austin, TX is K-8 but BASIS plans on opening more schools in that area, and will include high school at some point.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlist for Latin 1 and Latin 2 is 429 and 338. That is crazy long.

It is! I’m a teacher and my kid is going into K next year but I saw the faculty preference for Latin and figure I would try to get a job there in a few years to get my kid into the school if that’s where they want to go. Otherwise they probably won’t get in.