Lottery data is up

[Anonymous]

Waitlist question. We matched at TRY but are on the waitlists at three other schools. MSDC says we have until May 27 to accept our spot at TRY. Is it possible we would get into another school before that date and, if so, if we hadn't accepted TRY yet would we automatically lose our spot at TRY? Or would we maintain our match at TRY and have the WL option at the same time and have to decide by May 27?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waitlist question. We matched at TRY but are on the waitlists at three other schools. MSDC says we have until May 27 to accept our spot at TRY. Is it possible we would get into another school before that date and, if so, if we hadn't accepted TRY yet would we automatically lose our spot at TRY? Or would we maintain our match at TRY and have the WL option at the same time and have to decide by May 27?

You wouldn't lose your spot/offer until you actually enrolled elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

My understanding is that, if you ranked the other three schools higher, you'd continue to be on the waiting list even if you enrolled... So if I were you, I'd enroll before the May deadline and hope I get into the other three by October.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question -- my student applied to Duke Ellington for Visual Arts -- I see they only had 30 seats in the program and it shows that 23 matched, 7 were unmatched. What does "unmatched" mean -- were these kids who applied to other schools and ranked them higher? Also, I note that there are no waitlists for Duke. IS that typical?

Thanks.

I think you apply for Ellington through MSDC, but you have to audition and go through an interview for acceptance. Maybe this means that 7 students weren't admitted? I have no idea...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlist question. We matched at TRY but are on the waitlists at three other schools. MSDC says we have until May 27 to accept our spot at TRY. Is it possible we would get into another school before that date and, if so, if we hadn't accepted TRY yet would we automatically lose our spot at TRY? Or would we maintain our match at TRY and have the WL option at the same time and have to decide by May 27?

You wouldn't lose your spot/offer until you actually enrolled elsewhere.

You can evaluate options if you have more than one, but WLs probably won't move too much unless schools are under-enrolled. There are a few ways to lose the TRY spot:
1) If you are unresponsive to TRY's match on May 27. They can decline your match at that point and move onto their waitlist.
2) If you get an offer at somewhere you ranked higher and actually enroll there as the PP said.
3) You respond to TRY's match by saying you decline it earlier than May 27.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kudos to them for getting it up so fast! They need to merge Dorothy Height (K-5) and Dorothy I Height (PK). Even they waitlisted PK students this year...there really is a huge demand for seats.

My IB school is Amidon-Bowen. Amazing how many IB folks got waitlisted...no wonder they stopped early action! I'm interested in the fact they only offered 18 PK3 spots. Maybe they are waiting for IB families to enroll over the summer in K-5 and then they'll have seats for siblings?

Stevens offered 33 seats with the at-risk priority and only got 20 applications for it. They offered 48 seats for not-at-risk and have a waitlist of 76 kids.

Houston elementary has no waitlist for English-dominant PK3.

And while Hardy offered 20 seats for OOB students, Deal and Stuart-Hobson each offered 0.

Amidon added a kindergarten class for 2020-21. The decision was made to use a preK classroom for K so there is a smaller number of PreK seats/rooms for 2020. (This, on the heels of DCPS insisting, only a year ago, that Amidon would be going from 4 to 5 preK classes.)

Popular principal, great teachers, and strong PTA are helping make Amidon a good option for IB families. Sucks about the preK squeeze, tho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every year the data is out with both DCPS and charters together as most of you know. DCPS decides to release their data early. It’s not like they don’t have the data from charters since it’s the same lottery. Not sure why DCPS decided to release theirs early this year.

Honestly, our charter, which is highly desirable, have implemented a great remote distance learning curriculum last week and continues to refine and improve on it this week That is what they are focusing on, not waitlist numbers for next year.

Ha. Your highly desirable charter absolutely is focused on waitlist numbers, but good for them that their message to families is about student learning. Their PR machine makes sure of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every year the data is out with both DCPS and charters together as most of you know. DCPS decides to release their data early. It’s not like they don’t have the data from charters since it’s the same lottery. Not sure why DCPS decided to release theirs early this year.

Honestly, our charter, which is highly desirable, have implemented a great remote distance learning curriculum last week and continues to refine and improve on it this week That is what they are focusing on, not waitlist numbers for next year.

Ha. Your highly desirable charter absolutely is focused on waitlist numbers, but good for them that their message to families is about student learning. Their PR machine makes sure of that.

I posted above on 3/28 and as if you know my charter and what their focus was then. It absolutely was not the WL then, it was the DL.

In fact, it still is about DL and now they are starting the process of evaluating each individual student to see what the kids have learned. Once that data is collected, then it will drive any change or improvement in continuing to deliver quality content in DL in the fall.

No big pressure or focus needed on WL when they have one of the highest retention rates in the city and % acceptance rate in the single digits off the WL.

But yea, of course you know everything about my school although you don’t have a kid there.........

[Anonymous]

So my child's school is opening another K classroom but why is the school only offering 5 kindergarten seats?? That makes no sense to me.

And why only 22 pk seats, I believe Langdon ES has 2 regular then the others are Montessori?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my child's school is opening another K classroom but why is the school only offering 5 kindergarten seats?? That makes no sense to me.

And why only 22 pk seats, I believe Langdon ES has 2 regular then the others are Montessori?

DCPS is usually conservative about what is offered in the lottery. Then they take from the wait list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my child's school is opening another K classroom but why is the school only offering 5 kindergarten seats?? That makes no sense to me.

And why only 22 pk seats, I believe Langdon ES has 2 regular then the others are Montessori?

they may not have known in November or December that they were going to open another K classroom.
and they may believe the new classroom will be full of IB students (if DCPS).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my child's school is opening another K classroom but why is the school only offering 5 kindergarten seats?? That makes no sense to me.

And why only 22 pk seats, I believe Langdon ES has 2 regular then the others are Montessori?

DCPS is usually conservative about what is offered in the lottery. Then they take from the wait list.

NP This is helpful because I was wondering about this for Ludlow-Taylor, which had zero lottery seats available for first through fifth grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my child's school is opening another K classroom but why is the school only offering 5 kindergarten seats?? That makes no sense to me.

And why only 22 pk seats, I believe Langdon ES has 2 regular then the others are Montessori?

DCPS is usually conservative about what is offered in the lottery. Then they take from the wait list.

NP This is helpful because I was wondering about this for Ludlow-Taylor, which had zero lottery seats available for first through fifth grades.

I know that, even before the pandemic, the L-T principal was intentionally being a bit conservative because he has been contacted by some IB SWS parents who are unenthused about the swing space. I don't know how that will play out in light of the pandemic (I really wouldn't want to switch schools right now; I really, really would not want to be in super-cramped swing space; I really, really would not want to be in a location farther from my house that I was planning to take public transport to; and I also think there's a decent chance the SWS renovation doesn't actually go ahead); however, I cannot imagine principals will add students to get beyond the smallest permitted class sizes given the social distancing issue, so I wouldn't count on much movement in schools this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kudos to them for getting it up so fast! They need to merge Dorothy Height (K-5) and Dorothy I Height (PK). Even they waitlisted PK students this year...there really is a huge demand for seats.

My IB school is Amidon-Bowen. Amazing how many IB folks got waitlisted...no wonder they stopped early action! I'm interested in the fact they only offered 18 PK3 spots. Maybe they are waiting for IB families to enroll over the summer in K-5 and then they'll have seats for siblings?

Stevens offered 33 seats with the at-risk priority and only got 20 applications for it. They offered 48 seats for not-at-risk and have a waitlist of 76 kids.

Houston elementary has no waitlist for English-dominant PK3.

And while Hardy offered 20 seats for OOB students, Deal and Stuart-Hobson each offered 0.

Amidon had a PreK squeeze for the upcoming year (2020-21) because they are expanding Kindergarten capacity and needed physical space. I suspect that there will be more preK seats in the coming years, but Early Action there is done. Demand for Amidon (not just preK but the K-5 program, too) may result in limiting OOB seats throughout the building.