Brent ES Swing Space and ECE

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You can’t get in to Hill schools with geographic boundaries as an OOB kid in PK3, other than Miner. All the spots get taken by IB kids (or another preference, like Spanish-dominant for Chisholm).

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Anonymous wrote:Depends. What are your options if you aren’t enrolling this year?

Begrudgingly private school. I’d rather my child go to public school for as long as possible.

You can rank any schools you prefer above it. There are 3 or 4 appletrees, dcps schools with and without boundaries, and charters that are all worth considering, at least for pk3. Like would I usually pick two rivers or amidon over brent? No, but if Brent is in the swing space and the others are a decent commute and I know I have a right to Brent in k? Sure.

Yeah, very good point. Only thing is if you get into Appletree, etc. and you’ve ranked it above Brent, you don’t even get a number for Brent to decide. (Appletree being a good option for this situation because it is just PK, and then all kids move on to various K, so everyone is in the same boat.)

Yes, that is why it's important to figure out what schools you prefer before the lottery deadline, and rank accordingly. If I lived IB for Brent, here are some schools I would consider for ECE (with commute and curriculum as a deciding factor...like I wouldn't do Chisholm unless I would stay for dual language)

Van Ness
SWS
Payne
Amidon-Bowen
Appletree (lincoln park, oklahoma ave, sw, waterfront)
Thomson
CHML
Chisholm
Miner

I would also look at the community-based options for free private PK

Realistically, you will not get into most of the Capitol Hill or Capitol Hill-adjacent neighborhood elementary schools OOB for PK3. Look at the waitlist data before you put too much energy into weighing the pros/cons of these schools.

You get 12 choices. Might as well use them all, if you're willing (albeit grudingly) to do another year of private if necessary. But listing Brent IB, a couple of Appletrees (and/or Stevens, if commuting to Foggy Bottom makes more sense) and rounding out with some of the ones above is pretty likely to yield a match, and perhaps some waitlist offers over the summer.

Didn't work out for our family. I'm not telling her not to list schools, I'm telling her not to put much energy into it or to have an expectation that a match is a sure thing.

You applied for 12 schools including your IB and a couple of PK-only options (Appletree, Stevens, Military Road) and haven't gotten in anywhere for PK3? I'm sorry to hear that. It's certainly uncommon. If it's for this year and you're in Ward 6, there are several nearby options with zero or short waitlists for PK3.

It was a few years ago. I applied to our IB, one of the Appletrees, and basically all of the Capitol Hill neighborhood schools within a reasonable commute distance from our house. Never got off any of the waitlists.

If we had really wanted free PK I could have listed some OK options with a 30 min + commute, but it just wasn't worth it to us.

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Anonymous wrote:You can’t get in to Hill schools with geographic boundaries as an OOB kid in PK3, other than Miner. All the spots get taken by IB kids (or another preference, like Spanish-dominant for Chisholm).

JO Wilson took 8 kids with no preference this year for PK3 in the lottery; there were 20 kids on the waitlist at that point (presumable all without preference) and since then they made 17 offers. They will be done with their renovation when OP applies so the odds won't be as good, but they aren't 0.

And there are a lot of charters and DCPS without boundaries within a reasonable commute of Brent.

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The Appletree locations that are not Lincoln Park sometimes take everybody.