Literally zero positive movement at Brent/Peabody

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's how the FAQ defines proximity preference.

Proximity preference

Students who live greater than a half mile walking distance from their zoned DCPS elementary school will receive a proximity preference in the out-of-boundary lottery to a DCPS zoned elementary school that is a half mile or less walking distance from their home.

You need to call if you think it isn't calculating your situation correctly.

I called. Was told that proximity preference is only for one school, and while Brent is less than 1/2 mile away from us, Tyler is even closer so we have proximity preference for Tyler.

Interesting. So it's for your closest school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's hopeless for ECE, but it's not hopeless to get in OOB for K. I know quite a few families admitted from OOB (no sibling preference) this past year, and I imagine more will be admitted for the incoming K class. If Nrent wants to maintain the 400+ enrollment, they may need class sizes a little larger than 20 from K on.

According to the recently released WL information, it looks like they went down 21 spots to fill K. However the class behind it is huge (70ish kids IB) when proves how pointless the information being released is for predicting future results.

[Anonymous]

21 OOB kids for K makes it one of the 'easiest' good schools to get into this year.

Of course, all bets are off for next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:21 OOB kids for K makes it one of the 'easiest' good schools to get into this year.

Of course, all bets are off for next year.

Does the data on OOB show how many had preference - sibling or proximity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hopeless for ECE, but it's not hopeless to get in OOB for K. I know quite a few families admitted from OOB (no sibling preference) this past year, and I imagine more will be admitted for the incoming K class. If Nrent wants to maintain the 400+ enrollment, they may need class sizes a little larger than 20 from K on.

According to the recently released WL information, it looks like they went down 21 spots to fill K. However the class behind it is huge (70ish kids IB) when proves how pointless the information being released is for predicting future results.

Interesting, I know some recent PK4 kids (now rising K) that got shut out last year. They are all planning to attend Brent next year. Do they significantly increase the number of seats from PK4 to K?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:21 OOB kids for K makes it one of the 'easiest' good schools to get into this year.

Of course, all bets are off for next year.

Does the data on OOB show how many had preference - sibling or proximity?

No it doesn't

[Anonymous]

Go to learndc.org and look up Brent. You can drill down and get number of students by grade which gives you a sense

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hopeless for ECE, but it's not hopeless to get in OOB for K. I know quite a few families admitted from OOB (no sibling preference) this past year, and I imagine more will be admitted for the incoming K class. If Nrent wants to maintain the 400+ enrollment, they may need class sizes a little larger than 20 from K on.

According to the recently released WL information, it looks like they went down 21 spots to fill K. However the class behind it is huge (70ish kids IB) when proves how pointless the information being released is for predicting future results.

Interesting, I know some recent PK4 kids (now rising K) that got shut out last year. They are all planning to attend Brent next year. Do they significantly increase the number of seats from PK4 to K?

Everyone IB K and up gets a seat that wants one. This class is sort of small IB (in the 40s) but is sandwiched between two large IB classes (in the 70s). Hence the large number that got in off the WL. I think the rising 3s are in the middle of these two extremes but I don't recall the exact numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hopeless for ECE, but it's not hopeless to get in OOB for K. I know quite a few families admitted from OOB (no sibling preference) this past year, and I imagine more will be admitted for the incoming K class. If Nrent wants to maintain the 400+ enrollment, they may need class sizes a little larger than 20 from K on.

According to the recently released WL information, it looks like they went down 21 spots to fill K. However the class behind it is huge (70ish kids IB) when proves how pointless the information being released is for predicting future results.

Interesting, I know some recent PK4 kids (now rising K) that got shut out last year. They are all planning to attend Brent next year. Do they significantly increase the number of seats from PK4 to K?

IIRC there are approximately 40 PK4 seats and K was about 75 students last year.

[Anonymous]

We were rising K last year at Brent- shut out two previous years but ultimately opted to move and not attend.

The two years we were shut out, the first we did NOT have proximity preference for Tyler as it stopped at the HOUSE NEXT DOOR. For our PK4 year, the methodology change and the MySchoolDC automatically granted us proximity preference to Tyler. (We were waitlisted both there and at Brent and remained at our charter school.)

Know of two other families with rising 1st graders this year who opted to not attend Brent.

[Anonymous]

Brent held an orientation for incoming K a few weeks back at which the Principal said they expected three K classes next year with 20 kids each (though the number could rise very slightly based on new families moving inbound, as that can't be controlled for).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hopeless for ECE, but it's not hopeless to get in OOB for K. I know quite a few families admitted from OOB (no sibling preference) this past year, and I imagine more will be admitted for the incoming K class. If Nrent wants to maintain the 400+ enrollment, they may need class sizes a little larger than 20 from K on.

According to the recently released WL information, it looks like they went down 21 spots to fill K. However the class behind it is huge (70ish kids IB) when proves how pointless the information being released is for predicting future results.

Interesting, I know some recent PK4 kids (now rising K) that got shut out last year. They are all planning to attend Brent next year. Do they significantly increase the number of seats from PK4 to K?

Everyone IB K and up gets a seat that wants one. This class is sort of small IB (in the 40s) but is sandwiched between two large IB classes (in the 70s). Hence the large number that got in off the WL. I think the rising 3s are in the middle of these two extremes but I don't recall the exact numbers.

Yes the rising 3s are about 50 as of now.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing. When I predicted that the rising 3s would be a significantly smaller group than the rising 4s on a thread a few months ago, mainly due to contracting real estate inventory in the Brent District from around 2012 (many more young families staying, meaning less turnover in row houses, with almost every 3-bedroom house for sale in the Brent District going for a million plus), I met a lot of resistance. Looks like the very iffy middle and high school feeder situations, and fast-rising real estate prices and rents, are emerging as constraints to in-boundary K enrollment growth. I can't see Brent dropping a K class because the eligible in-boundary group is contracting over time, so there should be more OOB lottery spots for K in the coming years.

[Anonymous]

How do you know that PK3-4 classes are composed of IB or OOB? The myschoolsdc page doesn't specify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for sharing. When I predicted that the rising 3s would be a significantly smaller group than the rising 4s on a thread a few months ago, mainly due to contracting real estate inventory in the Brent District from around 2012 (many more young families staying, meaning less turnover in row houses, with almost every 3-bedroom house for sale in the Brent District going for a million plus), I met a lot of resistance. Looks like the very iffy middle and high school feeder situations, and fast-rising real estate prices and rents, are emerging as constraints to in-boundary K enrollment growth. I can't see Brent dropping a K class because the eligible in-boundary group is contracting over time, so there should be more OOB lottery spots for K in the coming years.

That's an awful lot of supposition there...