Powell or DC Bilingual?

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Anonymous wrote:So do they divide the spots up between the language immmersion charters and no one else has a chance of getting in?

Each feeder school has a set number of seats that were determined when DCI was created. Non-feeder kids get into DCI because not all kids from the feeders continue onto DCI as discussed above.

The Spanish track takes the lowest amount of non-feeder kids in the lottery. Chinese takes the highest which is not surprising since not really practical or widely spoken like Spanish.

Once the expansion grades from these schools reach time to go to DCI, then much less non-feeder kids will get spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are the other 40% of kids going? Are they mostly in bounds for Deal or going to MD/private?

Or latin, basis, not sure just that dci hasn’t been super popular at our feeder.

[Anonymous]

Kids from feeder schools have preference.

I don’t have any data or facts but my assumption would be that any extra seats from one feeder school would go to students from another feeder school if they did not have enough seats. After that it would go to non-feeder students.

Charters can’t admit based on languages spoken like DCPS. So the only kids that DCI knows in the lottery who are bilingual are those with preferences from the feeder schools.

It’s in their best interest to admit these kids to support their curriculum and programming.

The whole basis of why DCI was created was to have a middle and high school track for the feeder schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids from feeder schools have preference.

I don’t have any data or facts but my assumption would be that any extra seats from one feeder school would go to students from another feeder school if they did not have enough seats. After that it would go to non-feeder students.

Charters can’t admit based on languages spoken like DCPS. So the only kids that DCI knows in the lottery who are bilingual are those with preferences from the feeder schools.

It’s in their best interest to admit these kids to support their curriculum and programming.

The whole basis of why DCI was created was to have a middle and high school track for the feeder schools.

PP here. This is for the Spanish track since multiple schools are feeders. French and Mandarin are separate track and no expansions there.