Middle school lottery chances based on SY24-25 outcomes

[Anonymous]

eh it depends on your risk tolerance and everyone’s is different. if you live really close to dci, attend a feeder, and dont get a seat that would be really disappointing/challenging. i think ppl at dci feeders will tend to increasingly take latin seats if they land them because they also like latin and it removes this risk. but fully foregoing the dci 6th grade lottery with a great chance to instead go to 5th at thompson or now also cleveland for that matter just for a john francis seat seems like a huge stretch.

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Anonymous wrote:I filtered this list down to schools with 20 or more offers (matches+offers by October) and less than 100% offered by October.

Percent offered = (matches+offers by October)/(matches+waitlist on results day)

For 5th grade:
Inspired Teaching - 78% offered
BASIS - 64% offered
Latin Cooper - 27% offered
Latin 2nd St - 22% offered

For 6th grade:
Wells - 98% offered
DC Prep Edgewood - 98% offered
Capitol Hill Montessori - 96% offered
Friendship Blow-Pierce - 96% offered
EL Haynes - 94% offered
Sojourner Truth - 92% offered
Jefferson - 89% offered
Eliot-Hine - 82% offered
KIPP Key - 55% offered
DCI Chinese - 51% offered
Capital City - 42% offered
Stuart-Hobson - 40% offered
Inspired Teaching - 37% offered
John-Francis - 27% offered
Hardy - 26% offered
DCI French - 20% offered

What about DCI spanish? Definately lower then French. Maybe single percentages?

DCI Spanish barely got all the feeder kids in this year

All the feeder kids got in this year.

They said that they ran the numbers and all feeder kids will have spots at DCI for the next few years even with feeder school expansions. Maybe not all the feeder spanish kids will get the spanish track maybe in the future and might be in other language track which further decreases those numbers for non-feeders.

Thus DCI is the most competitive seat for non-feeders kids EOTP.

If they did this analysis they should share it with families. I know a family that opted for the Latin guarantee over the non-guarantee preference from a feeder even though they slightly preferred DCI.

We are in a feeder and never heard that they would offer a Spanish kid a French track slot.

Can the kids attending a feeder school apply to different tracks at DCI? Or does the lottery only allow to apply to one track at DCI?

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Anonymous wrote:I filtered this list down to schools with 20 or more offers (matches+offers by October) and less than 100% offered by October.

Percent offered = (matches+offers by October)/(matches+waitlist on results day)

For 5th grade:
Inspired Teaching - 78% offered
BASIS - 64% offered
Latin Cooper - 27% offered
Latin 2nd St - 22% offered

For 6th grade:
Wells - 98% offered
DC Prep Edgewood - 98% offered
Capitol Hill Montessori - 96% offered
Friendship Blow-Pierce - 96% offered
EL Haynes - 94% offered
Sojourner Truth - 92% offered
Jefferson - 89% offered
Eliot-Hine - 82% offered
KIPP Key - 55% offered
DCI Chinese - 51% offered
Capital City - 42% offered
Stuart-Hobson - 40% offered
Inspired Teaching - 37% offered
John-Francis - 27% offered
Hardy - 26% offered
DCI French - 20% offered

What about DCI spanish? Definately lower then French. Maybe single percentages?

DCI Spanish barely got all the feeder kids in this year

All the feeder kids got in this year.

They said that they ran the numbers and all feeder kids will have spots at DCI for the next few years even with feeder school expansions. Maybe not all the feeder spanish kids will get the spanish track maybe in the future and might be in other language track which further decreases those numbers for non-feeders.

Thus DCI is the most competitive seat for non-feeders kids EOTP.

If they did this analysis they should share it with families. I know a family that opted for the Latin guarantee over the non-guarantee preference from a feeder even though they slightly preferred DCI.

We are in a feeder and never heard that they would offer a Spanish kid a French track slot.

We are at a feeder and the admin at DCI said that that they couldn’t guarantee seats for the current 4th grade class. Not sure what PP is talking about. But the admin did confirm that available lottery seats would go to feeder kids first. Although I don’t know if my kid who has studied Spanish since PreK would love to start fresh with Chinese.

They are not going to say they will guarantee spots. Things can happen and come out. They have to leave the door open.

But the trending pattern is that there should be enough seats for the next few years. This was what was said in the open house presentation Q and A by the principal.

There are over 100 more kids in the rising 5th grade class. If I were at a Spanish language charter like MV I would definitely have a plan B.

NP - my kids aren’t at a DCI feeder so I have no horse in this race. But your plan B options if you don’t get into DCI are basically non-existent. If you can afford private, or you live in bounds for a middle school you can tolerate, okay. But if you’re inbounds for a crappy middle school and can’t afford private (which is most people!) you’re stuck. The only way you don’t get into DCI is a crappy number, so you’re not getting in anywhere.

Seems much riskier than lotterying hard for 5th and going to Thompson if nothing else pans out (as suggested up-thread).

People at DCI feeder can also play the lottery for 5th and then decide what to do.

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Anonymous wrote:I filtered this list down to schools with 20 or more offers (matches+offers by October) and less than 100% offered by October.

Percent offered = (matches+offers by October)/(matches+waitlist on results day)

For 5th grade:
Inspired Teaching - 78% offered
BASIS - 64% offered
Latin Cooper - 27% offered
Latin 2nd St - 22% offered

For 6th grade:
Wells - 98% offered
DC Prep Edgewood - 98% offered
Capitol Hill Montessori - 96% offered
Friendship Blow-Pierce - 96% offered
EL Haynes - 94% offered
Sojourner Truth - 92% offered
Jefferson - 89% offered
Eliot-Hine - 82% offered
KIPP Key - 55% offered
DCI Chinese - 51% offered
Capital City - 42% offered
Stuart-Hobson - 40% offered
Inspired Teaching - 37% offered
John-Francis - 27% offered
Hardy - 26% offered
DCI French - 20% offered

What about DCI spanish? Definately lower then French. Maybe single percentages?

DCI Spanish barely got all the feeder kids in this year

All the feeder kids got in this year.

They said that they ran the numbers and all feeder kids will have spots at DCI for the next few years even with feeder school expansions. Maybe not all the feeder spanish kids will get the spanish track maybe in the future and might be in other language track which further decreases those numbers for non-feeders.

Thus DCI is the most competitive seat for non-feeders kids EOTP.

If they did this analysis they should share it with families. I know a family that opted for the Latin guarantee over the non-guarantee preference from a feeder even though they slightly preferred DCI.

We are in a feeder and never heard that they would offer a Spanish kid a French track slot.

Can the kids attending a feeder school apply to different tracks at DCI? Or does the lottery only allow to apply to one track at DCI?

DCI has a really good explainer on their application and admittance policies here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OChUXlUN_KHLWrv1Mz3x4Ism2xD8KkZl/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106404901174849516726&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Anonymous wrote:I filtered this list down to schools with 20 or more offers (matches+offers by October) and less than 100% offered by October.

Percent offered = (matches+offers by October)/(matches+waitlist on results day)

For 5th grade:
Inspired Teaching - 78% offered
BASIS - 64% offered
Latin Cooper - 27% offered
Latin 2nd St - 22% offered

For 6th grade:
Wells - 98% offered
DC Prep Edgewood - 98% offered
Capitol Hill Montessori - 96% offered
Friendship Blow-Pierce - 96% offered
EL Haynes - 94% offered
Sojourner Truth - 92% offered
Jefferson - 89% offered
Eliot-Hine - 82% offered
KIPP Key - 55% offered
DCI Chinese - 51% offered
Capital City - 42% offered
Stuart-Hobson - 40% offered
Inspired Teaching - 37% offered
John-Francis - 27% offered
Hardy - 26% offered
DCI French - 20% offered

What about DCI spanish? Definately lower then French. Maybe single percentages?

DCI Spanish barely got all the feeder kids in this year

All the feeder kids got in this year.

They said that they ran the numbers and all feeder kids will have spots at DCI for the next few years even with feeder school expansions. Maybe not all the feeder spanish kids will get the spanish track maybe in the future and might be in other language track which further decreases those numbers for non-feeders.

Thus DCI is the most competitive seat for non-feeders kids EOTP.

If they did this analysis they should share it with families. I know a family that opted for the Latin guarantee over the non-guarantee preference from a feeder even though they slightly preferred DCI.

We are in a feeder and never heard that they would offer a Spanish kid a French track slot.

We are at a feeder and the admin at DCI said that that they couldn’t guarantee seats for the current 4th grade class. Not sure what PP is talking about. But the admin did confirm that available lottery seats would go to feeder kids first. Although I don’t know if my kid who has studied Spanish since PreK would love to start fresh with Chinese.

They are not going to say they will guarantee spots. Things can happen and come out. They have to leave the door open.

But the trending pattern is that there should be enough seats for the next few years. This was what was said in the open house presentation Q and A by the principal.

Stokes Brookland had more kids on the waitlist than kids that got offers from the lottery. They may get off the waitlist, but next year might be harder.