June waitlist data is up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

My family is at the Calle Ocho campus and the impression that I have gotten from families who transferred from Cook to C8 is that it is very much a neighborhood concern. Crime continues to be a consistent issue in the immediate area and traffic levels make drop off difficult. C8 is tucked away on quiet neighborhood street with easier parking and flow.

As for the desire from posters here to stir up drama from a few years ago every time MV is mentioned... the old ED, who was one of the founders, is no longer and there is a new ED who is so far is living up to what families where hoping for in terms of transparency etc. She is a MV parent herself with a lot of skin in the game.

Ok but it takes time to recover a reputation. And the test scores are meh relative to demographics.

No direct experience with MV so take this with many shakes of salt...I have one friend with a rising fourth grader who is very happy at MV Cooke. I know about a half a dozen others who left the school because of poor leadership/chaotic classrooms/teachers quitting mid-year/etc. I think the happy friend's kid has consistently gotten lucky, great teachers who have stayed through the school year. So it is possible to get that there, apparently, it's just not everyone's experience.

I have heard from friends at Cleveland that that's a much stronger Spanish immersion program that's easy to lottery into and that the school has good leadership. So you might want to look into that for ECE

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two Rivers (both 4th and Young) will have exhausted their WL in all grades by the time school starts. That is an astounding fall from grace for a once formerly high demand school. It saddens me.

Equity kills.

Oh please. ITDS goes on and on about equity and yet is doing fine.

Also disagree. It is not the school it once was. Best to skip it for middle school if you have other options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Latin and BASIS had record WL and are pulling fewer kids off of WL as of June. Demand up, yield up.

Stuart Hobson made 3 offers. THREE!

Seems like quality MS seats are even harder to come by.

We have a kid at BASIS and our second is in the 50s on the waitlist. It's wild this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Latin and BASIS had record WL and are pulling fewer kids off of WL as of June. Demand up, yield up.

Stuart Hobson made 3 offers. THREE!

Seems like quality MS seats are even harder to come by.

We have a kid at BASIS and our second is in the 50s on the waitlist. It's wild this year.

On the basis waitlist?
Not possible unless they aren't a 5th grader.
BASIS takes no one after 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

My family is at the Calle Ocho campus and the impression that I have gotten from families who transferred from Cook to C8 is that it is very much a neighborhood concern. Crime continues to be a consistent issue in the immediate area and traffic levels make drop off difficult. C8 is tucked away on quiet neighborhood street with easier parking and flow.

As for the desire from posters here to stir up drama from a few years ago every time MV is mentioned... the old ED, who was one of the founders, is no longer and there is a new ED who is so far is living up to what families where hoping for in terms of transparency etc. She is a MV parent herself with a lot of skin in the game.

Ok but it takes time to recover a reputation. And the test scores are meh relative to demographics.

No direct experience with MV so take this with many shakes of salt...I have one friend with a rising fourth grader who is very happy at MV Cooke. I know about a half a dozen others who left the school because of poor leadership/chaotic classrooms/teachers quitting mid-year/etc. I think the happy friend's kid has consistently gotten lucky, great teachers who have stayed through the school year. So it is possible to get that there, apparently, it's just not everyone's experience.

I have heard from friends at Cleveland that that's a much stronger Spanish immersion program that's easy to lottery into and that the school has good leadership. So you might want to look into that for ECE

Did Cleveland solve the school tension between the Spanish-track and the English-only track?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.

Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?

I would talk to actual parents at the school. DCUMD hates MV and a lot of people commenting don’t have kids there. I am not there but know a few families that are overall happy. The neighborhood is a prime complaint.

DCUM doesn’t have a problem with MV. Just the boosters that will put down other charters and insist it is common knowledge that MV has the best Spanish instruction with zero data to support the claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two Rivers (both 4th and Young) will have exhausted their WL in all grades by the time school starts. That is an astounding fall from grace for a once formerly high demand school. It saddens me.

Equity kills.

Oh please. ITDS goes on and on about equity and yet is doing fine.

Also disagree. It is not the school it once was. Best to skip it for middle school if you have other options.

What are you basing this opinion on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Latin and BASIS had record WL and are pulling fewer kids off of WL as of June. Demand up, yield up.

Stuart Hobson made 3 offers. THREE!

Seems like quality MS seats are even harder to come by.

We have a kid at BASIS and our second is in the 50s on the waitlist. It's wild this year.

For 5th grade, BASIS matched 43 with "sibling attending" preference and 96 with no preference on match day. This doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two Rivers (both 4th and Young) will have exhausted their WL in all grades by the time school starts. That is an astounding fall from grace for a once formerly high demand school. It saddens me.

Equity kills.

Oh please. ITDS goes on and on about equity and yet is doing fine.

Also disagree. It is not the school it once was. Best to skip it for middle school if you have other options.

What are you basing this opinion on?

Personal experience from 2 kids who were both there all the way from PS-8th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.

Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?

From what I can tell from parents and others MV is very much a get a DCI spot school still. It's got meh test scores and has had issues it's trying to rectify it seems, but it's definitely a school people use for the MS. And with the lack of guarantee about DCI and people people less certain about the future, it's probably blowing through the WL quicker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.

Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?

I would talk to actual parents at the school. DCUMD hates MV and a lot of people commenting don’t have kids there. I am not there but know a few families that are overall happy. The neighborhood is a prime complaint.

DCUM doesn’t have a problem with MV. Just the boosters that will put down other charters and insist it is common knowledge that MV has the best Spanish instruction with zero data to support the claim.

I don’t really see any “booster” posts. Just parents with kids at MV commenting on their experiences and then someone (probably the same poster from the tone) immediately dismissing these experiences. I’ve noticed significantly more MV hate on DCUMD posts than Mv boosters. And you clearly don’t have a kid at the school so what’s the deal. I don’t have a kid at MV so I personally wouldn’t comment on the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two Rivers (both 4th and Young) will have exhausted their WL in all grades by the time school starts. That is an astounding fall from grace for a once formerly high demand school. It saddens me.

Equity kills.

Oh please. ITDS goes on and on about equity and yet is doing fine.

Also disagree. It is not the school it once was. Best to skip it for middle school if you have other options.

What are you basing this opinion on?

Personal experience from 2 kids who were both there all the way from PS-8th.

Can you elaborate? Especially about middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.

Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?

I would talk to actual parents at the school. DCUMD hates MV and a lot of people commenting don’t have kids there. I am not there but know a few families that are overall happy. The neighborhood is a prime complaint.

DCUM doesn’t have a problem with MV. Just the boosters that will put down other charters and insist it is common knowledge that MV has the best Spanish instruction with zero data to support the claim.

I don’t really see any “booster” posts. Just parents with kids at MV commenting on their experiences and then someone (probably the same poster from the tone) immediately dismissing these experiences. I’ve noticed significantly more MV hate on DCUMD posts than Mv boosters. And you clearly don’t have a kid at the school so what’s the deal. I don’t have a kid at MV so I personally wouldn’t comment on the school.

+1. It’s common because some parents are bitter that charters take away families from poorly performing DCPS schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two Rivers (both 4th and Young) will have exhausted their WL in all grades by the time school starts. That is an astounding fall from grace for a once formerly high demand school. It saddens me.

Equity kills.

Oh please. ITDS goes on and on about equity and yet is doing fine.

Also disagree. It is not the school it once was. Best to skip it for middle school if you have other options.

What are you basing this opinion on?

Personal experience from 2 kids who were both there all the way from PS-8th.

Can you elaborate? Especially about middle school.

I am really perplexed why you would say that. The middle school, now fully enrolled, is better than it was when it was nascent and very small. Unless your kid needs a tiny school, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.

Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?

I would talk to actual parents at the school. DCUMD hates MV and a lot of people commenting don’t have kids there. I am not there but know a few families that are overall happy. The neighborhood is a prime complaint.

DCUM doesn’t have a problem with MV. Just the boosters that will put down other charters and insist it is common knowledge that MV has the best Spanish instruction with zero data to support the claim.

I don’t really see any “booster” posts. Just parents with kids at MV commenting on their experiences and then someone (probably the same poster from the tone) immediately dismissing these experiences. I’ve noticed significantly more MV hate on DCUMD posts than Mv boosters. And you clearly don’t have a kid at the school so what’s the deal. I don’t have a kid at MV so I personally wouldn’t comment on the school.

+1. It’s common because some parents are bitter that charters take away families from poorly performing DCPS schools.

Oh please. That is not why people criticize MV! Because MV is clearing it's waitlist and is poorly performing itself.