Full waitlist length data now on MSDC site

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Anonymous wrote:Both Two Rivers campuses waitlists are basically cut in half from last year. Have that many people fled the city, or are people just tired of change and staying at their current care or school situation?

Some of the other HRCS numbers went down a little bit but nowhere near 50%. I think the failure to have any successful hybrid IPL this spring is not a good sign for the fall and could be a factor, especially for ECE.

There you go again. Get over it! TR is returning full-time for all grades in the fall, which is the decision people make with the lottery. I love that you continue to whine but you and your two kids will return. Latin's numbers are way down too and they (by all accounts) did IPL in Q4. So how do you square that circle?

Ludlow is down. Maurey is down. Brent is down.

But for IB kids that doesn’t tell the full story because you don’t have to lottery for your IB. If people were lotterying less overall, you’d expect that to be true for IBs as it is for charters, but IBs get most of their kids not through the lottery, so the decrease in WL doesn’t really tell you anything about whether people are sticking with their IBs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Both Two Rivers campuses waitlists are basically cut in half from last year. Have that many people fled the city, or are people just tired of change and staying at their current care or school situation?

Some of the other HRCS numbers went down a little bit but nowhere near 50%. I think the failure to have any successful hybrid IPL this spring is not a good sign for the fall and could be a factor, especially for ECE.

There you go again. Get over it! TR is returning full-time for all grades in the fall, which is the decision people make with the lottery. I love that you continue to whine but you and your two kids will return. Latin's numbers are way down too and they (by all accounts) did IPL in Q4. So how do you square that circle?

Ludlow is down. Maurey is down. Brent is down.

But for IB kids that doesn’t tell the full story because you don’t have to lottery for your IB. If people were lotterying less overall, you’d expect that to be true for IBs as it is for charters, but IBs get most of their kids not through the lottery, so the decrease in WL doesn’t really tell you anything about whether people are sticking with their IBs.

Not for PK...

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Anonymous wrote:If re-enrollment paperwork isn't due until later in the spring, how do schools know how many lottery seats are available? For instance, I'm looking at my child's (charter) ES and there are a few lottery slots in every grade. Whereas JKLMM have zero lottery spots for rising/upper grades. I understand they're at max capacity with IB, so that means there's no chance for "school choice" at these schools?

Some families moved mid-year (and they didn't fill spots) and some families who moved already announced their intentions.

But based on so many folks saying that their JKLMM kids will be going private bc no IPL, wouldn’t there be lottery spots for OB students? It’s really unfortunate that this entire process isn’t consistent across the board and more transparent.

It’s because they aren’t actually moving. Lots of people talk on this forum. You need to learn to take what they are saying with a grain of salt.

This. Or the school will call those off the waitlist over the summer.

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Couldn’t numbers be down because there aren’t that many kids applying for a particular grade? Why is a decrease in enrollment numbers looked upon as a negative when it’s varies depending on population?

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn’t numbers be down because there aren’t that many kids applying for a particular grade? Why is a decrease in enrollment numbers looked upon as a negative when it’s varies depending on population?

It isn't. Or more accurately it shouldn't be. Unless you are one of these people with an axe to grind against a particular school and then it becomes a Rorschach test to prove the conclusion you've been shouting for months.

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Anonymous wrote:Both Two Rivers campuses waitlists are basically cut in half from last year. Have that many people fled the city, or are people just tired of change and staying at their current care or school situation?

Some of the other HRCS numbers went down a little bit but nowhere near 50%. I think the failure to have any successful hybrid IPL this spring is not a good sign for the fall and could be a factor, especially for ECE.

There you go again. Get over it! TR is returning full-time for all grades in the fall, which is the decision people make with the lottery. I love that you continue to whine but you and your two kids will return. Latin's numbers are way down too and they (by all accounts) did IPL in Q4. So how do you square that circle?

Ludlow is down. Maurey is down. Brent is down.

But for IB kids that doesn’t tell the full story because you don’t have to lottery for your IB. If people were lotterying less overall, you’d expect that to be true for IBs as it is for charters, but IBs get most of their kids not through the lottery, so the decrease in WL doesn’t really tell you anything about whether people are sticking with their IBs.

Not for PK...

To provide further context Brent's PK3 WL is 254 down from 367 last year. Ludlow's is 113 vs 212 last year. And the WL for by right grades also tracks lower. I do not believe anyone really knows what any of this means at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:If re-enrollment paperwork isn't due until later in the spring, how do schools know how many lottery seats are available? For instance, I'm looking at my child's (charter) ES and there are a few lottery slots in every grade. Whereas JKLMM have zero lottery spots for rising/upper grades. I understand they're at max capacity with IB, so that means there's no chance for "school choice" at these schools?

Some families moved mid-year (and they didn't fill spots) and some families who moved already announced their intentions.

But based on so many folks saying that their JKLMM kids will be going private bc no IPL, wouldn’t there be lottery spots for OB students? It’s really unfortunate that this entire process isn’t consistent across the board and more transparent.

Serious question: What additional transparency are you looking for? They published WL data a week or so after the lottery. Do you want names of people on the lists? Are you asking for non-specific transparency based on anonymous posts on DCUM claiming "we're leaving!"?

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the data by school. The popular WOTP and EOTP elementary lottery numbers for PK3, PK4 are not down in most cases, and only down a bit in others. It might be the numbers are down at a lot of the other schools and some
Charters.

You mean except for Brent, Ludlow, Maury, and Peabody? What numbers are you looking at my friend? I love when people just make shit up and state it as fact.

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Maybe fewer people committing residency fraud shortened the waitlists too.