MSDC Seats Availalble updated for 17-18

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How can SSMA have 60 slots for PK3? Are they planning on a huge growth or lot of attrition or what?

This year (16-17) they have 47 PK3 and 55 Pk4 students enrolled, so 60 is not that huge a jump.

But I mean what happens later do they expand upper level classrooms too?

I can't find their enrollment ceiling/matrix, but the latest I found (from 18 months ago) had a very very very small cohort of 1st and 2nd graders (like 18-20 total)

[Anonymous]

So am I reading this right for SSMA? They went into the 70's WL last year? We are 71 (our best WL #) so am wondering if we might get lucky or last year was just unusual?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So am I reading this right for SSMA? They went into the 70's WL last year? We are 71 (our best WL #) so am wondering if we might get lucky or last year was just unusual?

There was a location move last year, which probably caused somewhat more movement. But it's possible. If it doesn't move much in May then last year was probably an aberration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So am I reading this right for SSMA? They went into the 70's WL last year? We are 71 (our best WL #) so am wondering if we might get lucky or last year was just unusual?

There was a location move last year, which probably caused somewhat more movement. But it's possible. If it doesn't move much in May then last year was probably an aberration.

I'm the PP.

I am amending my comment.

Last year they only offered 13 in the initial lottery but went deep into the wait list to get their seats filled.

This year they offered 70 in the initial lottery -- so in effect your 70 this year is equal to last year's 140.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So am I reading this right for SSMA? They went into the 70's WL last year? We are 71 (our best WL #) so am wondering if we might get lucky or last year was just unusual?

There was a location move last year, which probably caused somewhat more movement. But it's possible. If it doesn't move much in May then last year was probably an aberration.

I'm the PP.

I am amending my comment.

Last year they only offered 13 in the initial lottery but went deep into the wait list to get their seats filled.

This year they offered 70 in the initial lottery -- so in effect your 70 this year is equal to last year's 140.

thanks - that makes more sense since I know our master # was pretty bad. Oh well!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can SSMA have 60 slots for PK3? Are they planning on a huge growth or lot of attrition or what?

This year (16-17) they have 47 PK3 and 55 Pk4 students enrolled, so 60 is not that huge a jump.

But I mean what happens later do they expand upper level classrooms too?

I can't find their enrollment ceiling/matrix, but the latest I found (from 18 months ago) had a very very very small cohort of 1st and 2nd graders (like 18-20 total)

But my point is, the school building seems to small to house that many if the students continue through 5th grade. That would be 60 x 8 grades = 480 kids.

[Anonymous]

Wow, Van Ness doesn't offer any seats other than PK3. That school is starting to get difficult to get into.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, Van Ness doesn't offer any seats other than PK3. That school is starting to get difficult to get into.

thanks, VN booster! But really it's probably like a lot of DCPS schools--waiting to see how many kids move IB before the beginning of the year.

To focus on the schools on either side of VN along the green line, Amidon didn't offer any K-2 slots and only 5 PK4. Savoy offered none in K-5. The real issue will be how far the schools go into their waitlists.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stuart Hobson showing 1's for all three years, down from prior years. Will be interesting to see if their WL #s reflect the reduced number of projected seats. Don't want to get ahead of myself here, but maybe this is the beginning of the elusive CH MS...

That's what people said about Hardy last year (round 1 was 25/10/10, but they wound up going pretty deep into the WL.

Hardy this year offered 25/30/30 for 17-18 -- attrition or is the school growing by that much?

Hardy is turning off ib patents because honors classes (which are really just on grade level) are overcrowded and they dont offer pre-alg in 6th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can SSMA have 60 slots for PK3? Are they planning on a huge growth or lot of attrition or what?

This year (16-17) they have 47 PK3 and 55 Pk4 students enrolled, so 60 is not that huge a jump.

But I mean what happens later do they expand upper level classrooms too?

I can't find their enrollment ceiling/matrix, but the latest I found (from 18 months ago) had a very very very small cohort of 1st and 2nd graders (like 18-20 total)

But my point is, the school building seems to small to house that many if the students continue through 5th grade. That would be 60 x 8 grades = 480 kids.

There is a lot of attrition in Montessori, so I imagine they are planning on losing some for elementary. So if you have 3 primary classrooms you would likely have 2 elementary classrooms and one upper elementary classroom. 60 still seems huge though? Do they have 6 peimary classrooms with a plan for 4 lower elementary classrooms and 3 upper elementary classrooms. Maybe they are hoping to frontload so there will be no backfilling?

[Anonymous]

I've looked at the data for SY16-17 and SY17-18 for several DCPS schools and they are almost identical. Could it be that the projected number of seats for SY17-18 are not accurate and the school just used the same numbers from SY16-17? I didn't look at any charter data because I didn't apply to any charters, and I did not check every single DCPS school. But for those schools that I applied to, it is very clearly the same numbers from last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuart Hobson showing 1's for all three years, down from prior years. Will be interesting to see if their WL #s reflect the reduced number of projected seats. Don't want to get ahead of myself here, but maybe this is the beginning of the elusive CH MS...

That's what people said about Hardy last year (round 1 was 25/10/10, but they wound up going pretty deep into the WL.

Hardy this year offered 25/30/30 for 17-18 -- attrition or is the school growing by that much?

Hardy is turning off ib patents because honors classes (which are really just on grade level) are overcrowded and they dont offer pre-alg in 6th.

No schools have a class called pre algebra anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've looked at the data for SY16-17 and SY17-18 for several DCPS schools and they are almost identical. Could it be that the projected number of seats for SY17-18 are not accurate and the school just used the same numbers from SY16-17? I didn't look at any charter data because I didn't apply to any charters, and I did not check every single DCPS school. But for those schools that I applied to, it is very clearly the same numbers from last year.

Which did you check?

I see differences at Hardy, Takoma, Brent, Garrison, SWW @ FS (stopped looking at that point).