Can non-DC families attend DC charter/magnet schools?

[Anonymous]

Dumb question but can families outside of DC send their kids to the charter/magnet schools if they are willing to pay "tuition"?

[Anonymous]

Not a dumb question at all. Yes, they can but I am pretty sure there must be open spots in the class to which you'd be applying. You should contact the individual school to verify.

[Anonymous]

Yep, when dd was at Ellington, she knew kids from the suburbs whose families paid tuition.

[Anonymous]

It varies, depending on the school. LAMB for example, only accepts children who live in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a dumb question at all. Yes, they can but I am pretty sure there must be open spots in the class to which you'd be applying. You should contact the individual school to verify.

charter schools - no
magnet - yes

Should they? HELL NO. Don't people move to the burbs for the "great schools"?

[Anonymous]

We are paying DC "tuition" to attend a DC charter school from outside DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a dumb question at all. Yes, they can but I am pretty sure there must be open spots in the class to which you'd be applying. You should contact the individual school to verify.

charter schools - no
magnet - yes

Should they? HELL NO. Don't people move to the burbs for the "great schools"?

Settle down - they're PAYING to attend. It's not like they're free-loading.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the replies.

16:54 - would you mind sharing what the cost is for tuition?

15:26 - I would guess that they accept students from other areas only after they have considred all the DC residents that have applied and accepted.

[Anonymous]

It's about $10,000 a year. It rises every year just a bit, with inflation. DC announces it in August or September, maybe even after school starts, which makes it a bit difficult to plan. But your school may let you pay it in monthly segments.

[Anonymous]

It's about $10,000 a year. It rises every year just a bit, with inflation. DC announces it in August or September, maybe even after school starts, which makes it a bit difficult to plan. But your school may let you pay it in monthly segments.

With the heavy competition for spots in a good charter school, I would be enraged to find that somebody from Virginia or Maryland had been allowed to take up a spot that a DC student should get, even if they were paying tuition, unless there were no DC child on the waiting list behind the "paying" student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It's about $10,000 a year. It rises every year just a bit, with inflation. DC announces it in August or September, maybe even after school starts, which makes it a bit difficult to plan. But your school may let you pay it in monthly segments.

With the heavy competition for spots in a good charter school, I would be enraged to find that somebody from Virginia or Maryland had been allowed to take up a spot that a DC student should get, even if they were paying tuition, unless there were no DC child on the waiting list behind the "paying" student.

Thanks for the tuition info.

There is no reason to be "enraged". Schools do not generally take out of area students unless they have the room after admitting all students that are in bounds. A few years ago, I looked into sending my child to an Arlington county school while living in Fairfax. The conditions were that all available spaces had to have been offered to Arlington residents and the school could not be overcrowded. I didn't know if Charter schools worked differently from County schools or if DC just didn't have the capactiy to take excess students at all so this is why I asked the question. BTW in works in reverse, DC parents could try and send their kids to county schools in the 'burbs. Would that enrage you also?

[Anonymous]

There is no reason to be "enraged". Schools do not generally take out of area students unless they have the room after admitting all students that are in bounds.

Charter schools don't have boundaries, and are open to all DC residents, regardless of where they live.

I am not "enraged," but would be "outraged" if a DC resident were displaced by an Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery, PG County, etc. child in a good charter school. With waiting lists at the better charters at 100+ kids, I can't imagine that there is any space for anybody who doesn't live in the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There is no reason to be "enraged". Schools do not generally take out of area students unless they have the room after admitting all students that are in bounds.

Charter schools don't have boundaries, and are open to all DC residents, regardless of where they live.

I am not "enraged," but would be "outraged" if a DC resident were displaced by an Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery, PG County, etc. child in a good charter school. With waiting lists at the better charters at 100+ kids, I can't imagine that there is any space for anybody who doesn't live in the city.

Actually, that's helpful to know. I didn't realize the waiting lists were quite that long as there seems to be a lot of charter schools in DC and I figured that perhaps some schools might have 1 or 2 slots available.

BTW I am curious, would you be outraged if a DC student displaced an Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery, PG County child at one of the best schools those counties had?

[Anonymous]

I don't live in any of the regions named above, so it wouldn't be up to me to be upset that somebody was taking up a valuable resource in short supply, like somebody paying tuition to attend a good charter/public in DC would be doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There is no reason to be "enraged". Schools do not generally take out of area students unless they have the room after admitting all students that are in bounds.

Charter schools don't have boundaries, and are open to all DC residents, regardless of where they live.

I am not "enraged," but would be "outraged" if a DC resident were displaced by an Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery, PG County, etc. child in a good charter school. With waiting lists at the better charters at 100+ kids, I can't imagine that there is any space for anybody who doesn't live in the city.

Actually, that's helpful to know. I didn't realize the waiting lists were quite that long as there seems to be a lot of charter schools in DC and I figured that perhaps some schools might have 1 or 2 slots available.

BTW I am curious, would you be outraged if a DC student displaced an Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery, PG County child at one of the best schools those counties had?

I'm neither the enraged nor outraged PP. I am a charter school parent, and I suggest you contact the school directly and ask them about the particular grade you're interested in. Even some of the popular schools may have an opening for one reason or another. Some of them may have language requirements that not enough local children can meet (I'm thinking of the older grades at LAMB, Washington Latin and Washington Yu Ying). Anyway, you won't know unless you ask. Good luck.