Stokes- the last hurrah

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Oy vey!

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Anonymous wrote:If a kid needs a Pre-K 4 slot is that treated differently from needing a pre-k 3 slot. I know that both are housed together, but with Pre-k 4ers going to K the following year, is that differentiated from the Pre-k 3ers? Just trying to guage if there all lumped into one group or will my pre-k 4er only be competing with kids that need pre-k 4 slot. I know it's a long shot either way.

Stokes does not distinguish. You either stay in PreK 1 year or 2 based upon your age. They do not go down the list to try and balance the 3 and 4 year olds.

Your PreK will compete with everyone who applied for a PreK spot-regardless of age.

So how do they handle not having too many kids going to K? I'm sure they only have but so many spaces. If they accept a bunch of Pre-k 4ers, how can they accommodate them all for K. I would think they'd have to keep limits on Pre-k 4 slots, no?

[Anonymous]

^^ That's my question too. How do they avoid too many rising PKers headed for K? Surely they don't start cutting kids off, right? Do they just have elastic K classes, adding or cutting each year? The idea of not controlling or trying to balance PS3 and PK4 numbers just seems de-stabilizing for K... how does it really work?

[Anonymous]

K can range from 22-24 kids. There are 22-24 kids in PreK (this year 23 kids).

[Anonymous]

Just like another stokes parent said earlier. Her/his child was the only PreK old enough to go to K on school year. That meant that their were a lot of K spot available the year her child went to K.

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Anonymous wrote:K can range from 22-24 kids. There are 22-24 kids in PreK (this year 23 kids).

That is per class - French/Spanish. 22-24 kids in K spanish and 22-24 kids in K french.

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Anonymous wrote:

They have to distinguish between PS3 and PK4, because they can't have 3 times as many PK4 kids - that would be a nightmare when transitioning into K.

The year my child was in PK4 at Stokes, he was only one of 5 children moving from PK4 into K that year. So the next year- there were more PK-4s and not many PS-3 spots that year. Coincidentally, there were many children that got spots in K that year. So, although your theory makes sense, I'm not sure they can do it exactly balanced between 3 yo and 4 yo.

I meant to say 5 kids moved up to K..which meant there was space for a little under 20 K spaces available that year.

[Anonymous]

Which yeas was that? This sounds like some troll BS!!!!

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Um- not true! Most kids get a preference for Pre-k. Their older sib is in school and once they're eligible, they start at Pre-k. So, by the time they're in Pre-k 4, they've already gained admission through preference in Pre-k 3. Now some parents who chose to sit out Pre-k 3 can use the pref for four. And if multiple sibs are applying, admission to an upper grade for a sib, would get a newbie Pre-k 4er priority. These circumstances are so unlikely to happen or have such a small chance of happening, that someone with a single digit WL number stands a good chance and its safe to say sibs don't matter all that much. Stokes parent in that situation here.


Sorry, I'm a current stokes parent and this doesn't make sense to me. Can you explain it a bit? My understanding is that there is one pool of spots for both PS3 and PK4-- they share a classroom.


If you're a Stokes parent already, why would you give a darn. You should be explaining to us...

I did explain it to you, but someone- (you?) disagreed . Its the same pool of spots people, Stokes does not distinguish between 3 yo and 4 yo spots...some years there are more 3 year olds spots than 4 yo. So the point you or a another PP made, made it sound like there are different pools of spots (one for 3 yos and one for 4yos) and that is NOT true.

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^^ That's my question too. How do they avoid too many rising PKers headed for K? Surely they don't start cutting kids off, right? Do they just have elastic K classes, adding or cutting each year? The idea of not controlling or trying to balance PS3 and PK4 numbers just seems de-stabilizing for K... how does it really work?

They never have this problem, think about it.


PS/PK Class Year 1: 75% of the students are 3; 25% of the students are 4.
PS/PK class Year 2: 25% of the year 1 class (the 4 year olds) move into K; 75% of the class are now 4 year olds ; and 25% of the class are open slots for new 3 year olds
PS/PK class Year 3: 25% are 4 and there are 75% open slots
and so on and so on

[Anonymous]

Which yeas was that? This sounds like some troll BS!!!!

I assure you-- I am not a troll it was school year 2012-2013 that there were a lot of K slots open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

^^ That's my question too. How do they avoid too many rising PKers headed for K? Surely they don't start cutting kids off, right? Do they just have elastic K classes, adding or cutting each year? The idea of not controlling or trying to balance PS3 and PK4 numbers just seems de-stabilizing for K... how does it really work?

They never have this problem, think about it.


PS/PK Class Year 1: 75% of the students are 3; 25% of the students are 4.
PS/PK class Year 2: 25% of the year 1 class (the 4 year olds) move into K; 75% of the class are now 4 year olds ; and 25% of the class are open slots for new 3 year olds
PS/PK class Year 3: 25% are 4 and there are 75% open slots
and so on and so on

But I thought what everyone is saying is that they don't differentiate when they enroll, so in your example, the open spot would go to a mix of 3 and 4 year-olds, which could certainly result in a much larger or smaller K class from year to year. It seems odd.

[Anonymous]

Pp, you are correct, I omitted the other point I forgot to make that when there is a unbalanced year-- the year there were only 5 kids moving to K, that means a lot more open K slots and a lot less open PK spots.

[Anonymous]

Well, here's hoping that since last year had no lottery, that means there were a lot of PK4 in that class that are now moving up to K, leaving "lots" of openings for all of us!

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Anonymous wrote:Well, here's hoping that since last year had no lottery, that means there were a lot of PK4 in that class that are now moving up to K, leaving "lots" of openings for all of us!

Hope that's true, but also hoping the lottery won't shut out the WL. I know it's crazy and I don't know for sure, but I'm convinced my number is low.