2025-2026 Lottery Waitlist Updates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why have I been moved down a list? I started at #3, then was at #5 for a while, and am now down to #6. I’m sure there’s some valid reason, I just don’t know it.

Someone in a higher preference category than you was added to the list. If you say the grade, if it's dcps or charter, and if dcps if it's a bilingual school or one without a boundary, I could give more specific examples.

[Anonymous]

if prek, mostly siblings got waitlist spot in another grade and/or family moved into boundary post-lottery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why have I been moved down a list? I started at #3, then was at #5 for a while, and am now down to #6. I’m sure there’s some valid reason, I just don’t know it.

Someone likely had a sibling get in, which pulled a child below you on your list up to sibling preference category. For example if you were #3 on a third grade list, and a kindergartener that was #1 on their list got in and had an third grader sibling at #8 on your list, it would move the older child up to say #2 and bump everyone below that down.

[Anonymous]

I was the person asking about going down the waitlist. Thanks for the responses. This is a charter without a boundary, no bilingual. PreK4. The stuff about preferences makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was the person asking about going down the waitlist. Thanks for the responses. This is a charter without a boundary, no bilingual. PreK4. The stuff about preferences makes sense.

Yep. We were the beneficiary of a similar situation where our 1st grader got offered a spot, then our PK3 jumped from like 150th to 1st because of sibling preference.