DCPS lottery data

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Anonymous wrote:I agree.

Then congrats on never losing in the lottery. If you were totally shut out of your IB school and the next 10 closest, you might feel differently.

Again, we are just asking for what has been provided for the last 10 years. People seem to think that DCPS is upset that people keep applying to schools they have no chance of getting into. I'm not sure this will really solve that problem. Several parents have admitted that they have "thrown away" choices 9-12 on schools they have no chance of getting into because why not. The lottery situation at schools can change really quickly. Chances are you won't get in but you have to play to win.

DCPS should be a better job of highlighting up and coming schools in each of the Wards to try and get people there. The path they selected seems lazy and I doubt it works.

I just don't understand what data you think is going to help you so much here. At this point I think everyone knows that most IB and charters have WLs of some sort, so it is the nature of a lottery that you have a chance of not getting in. You have to have a plan B no matter what. I doubt people who are reading DCUM are really interested in enrolling their kids at places with very short waitlists.

But I can't even tell what a "safety school" is unless I know how many people applied for how many slots.

Well you know this for the charters because they released it.

You can get this info at open houses and by talking to the principals. Yes it's a pain in the neck and I agree it should be released and think people should be complaining loudly to Niles and Henderson and the others on the MYDC board. But it's not like you are totally without resources in the meantime.

Exactly. And I still doubt whether people actually have that many viable "safety schools" that they could reasonable travel to and would enroll their child in. I couldn't even fill up all my 12 choices with realistic commutes and programs. Plus, it's not clear to me that they're going to stop releasing this data altogether. Those meeting notes don't seem to indicate a well delineated plan, and they say that they are going to include waitlist movement data so people can gague their chances.