Is Brent PS3 going to be yet another year with long IB waitlist?

[Anonymous]

just curious what the landscape might look like for PS3 lottery this year.

[Anonymous]

getting sick of the ECE parents. The school should turn its focus on improving the elementary grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:getting sick of the ECE parents. The school should turn its focus on improving the elementary grades.

YES!

[Anonymous]

Brent will have a ton of people trying to get in because of the demographics. Those people trying to get into Brent should also target Van Ness Elementary, which is not far from Brent in the Capitol Riverfront.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:getting sick of the ECE parents. The school should turn its focus on improving the elementary grades.

So long as ECE is full of high SES, the elementary grades will take care of themselves.

[Anonymous]

If only that were true. You seem to know next to nothing about testing grades at Brent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just curious what the landscape might look like for PS3 lottery this year.

The school should be able to give you fairly current info on the lottery, including # of IB and IB with sibling. The principal gets a weekly report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If only that were true. You seem to know next to nothing about testing grades at Brent.

I know that the test scores have been dramatically increasing as the classes have become more and more high-SES. What else does anyone need to know?

[Anonymous]

Dramatically increasing? The results posted on the Brent website say otherwise. What data are you looking at? Surely not that which has been shared with the LSAT and Strategic Planning Committee.

[Anonymous]

16:42, I think until the school has a strong middle school feed, the upper grades will have people leaving by 3rd and 4th.

[Anonymous]

Relatively few rising Third and Fourth Graders depart. Rising Fifth Graders are a different story.

[Anonymous]

Brent is increasing enrollment to over 400 this year to meet late school status so they'll be accepting far more than normal--not sure which grades though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:getting sick of the ECE parents. The school should turn its focus on improving the elementary grades.

YES!

Don't about half of the so-called "ECE parents" also have an older child at Brent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brent is increasing enrollment to over 400 this year to meet late school status so they'll be accepting far more than normal--not sure which grades though.

My understanding is that no decision has been made, although it seems that increasing enrollment by another 35-40 students could result in additional resources being made available under the anachronistic large school formula, assuming that DCPS doesn't move the goalposts again. It also seems prudent to push implementation of a 400+ scenario to 2016-17 so as to allow for planning and required PTA fundraising once lottery results and DCPS budgets are locked in for 2015-16. I understand in this regard that Brent is looking at more than two dozen New students starting in K next fall, with that number dropping by half te following year.

[Anonymous]

OP, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but a letter sent home with students today indicates that all but one of the thirty PS3 spaces already have been effectively claimed by IB students with an older sibling already at Brent. It therefore appears likely that an IB student without a sibling already at Brent is not going to get a space for 2015-16.