Does Yu Ying take new K students? + Birthday Question

[Anonymous]

Are there any openings at K and can a new student start then? Besides Stokes and Sela what are the other charter immersion choices? Can you apply for a summer birthday kid to start in PK instead of K at any of these schools, or is the Sep 1 date totally fixed, no exceptions? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Oh my. You have so much to learn grasshopper. Start at myschooldc

[Anonymous]

I think the only immersion school that doesn't take kids at that age is LAMB.

[Anonymous]

Charter immersion
LAMB - Spanish, 533 applicants this year for the 11 prek-3 spots open to non siblings. They don't take kids after prek
DC Bilingual - Spanish
Mundo Verde - Spanish
Stokes - Spanish or french
Sela - Hebrew
Yu Ying - Mandarin

Sela is the easiest t get into, but it's not clear what the future holds for that school, with low enrollment and high staff turnover. DC Bilingual is probably the next "easiest" to get into, but they still had a waiting list. The others will have few spots at K and a lot of applicants.

DCPS Immersion or Dual Language programs (all Spanish)

Oyster (impossible to get in if not inbounds or Spanish dominant)
Marie Reed
Tyler
Powell
Bancroft
Cleveland
Bruce Monroe

For K, you probably won't get into Oyster or Bancroft if you are not inbounds. You may have a shot at the rest.

I don't know the answer to your question about redshirting.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the information!

[Anonymous]

The date is completely fixed, but it's not Sep 1. It's Sep 30.

[Anonymous]

Our Kindergartener started at Bethune in Spanish immersion this year. Was worried about the transition to immersion (feeling behind the kids who attended PS-3 and PK-4) but no issues at all. Loving it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The date is completely fixed, but it's not Sep 1. It's Sep 30.

Wrong on both counts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The date is completely fixed, but it's not Sep 1. It's Sep 30.

Wrong on both counts.

No it's not. Everyone knows the cut off is Sept 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The date is completely fixed, but it's not Sep 1. It's Sep 30.

Wrong on both counts.

What a useless thing to post without also posting the supposedly "correct" answer.

[Anonymous]

...esp. since the cut off is Sept 30.

Anyway YY does take Kers if there is space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charter immersion
LAMB - Spanish, 533 applicants this year for the 11 prek-3 spots open to non siblings. They don't take kids after prek
DC Bilingual - Spanish
Mundo Verde - Spanish
Stokes - Spanish or french
Sela - Hebrew
Yu Ying - Mandarin

Sela is the easiest t get into, but it's not clear what the future holds for that school, with low enrollment and high staff turnover. DC Bilingual is probably the next "easiest" to get into, but they still had a waiting list. The others will have few spots at K and a lot of applicants.

DCPS Immersion or Dual Language programs (all Spanish)

Oyster (impossible to get in if not inbounds or Spanish dominant)
Marie Reed
Tyler
Powell
Bancroft
Cleveland
Bruce Monroe

For K, you probably won't get into Oyster or Bancroft if you are not inbounds. You may have a shot at the rest.

I don't know the answer to your question about redshirting.

Actually Sela's Future is Incredibly Bright from what I see on a daily basis as a Parent of a PreK4 student at Sela. Sela has an excellent Faculty and Staff and only one teacher has left that I know of since my child started at the beginning of the year so Im not sure where you are getting your information from. I also would not consider Sela under enrolled, they are still a Start up school and consistently growing in numbers as Factual information continues to spread. I cant speak to last year (their first year in existence) but can we stay in the present please? Sela is an awesome school and we are really glad we found it

[Anonymous]

YY does take kids at K, but there are very, very few openings. I think they had one this year.

[Anonymous]

In our experience, Yu Ying does not allow red shirting for the lottery, even for August birthdays. Even past K, when the child would have needed to catch up.