Stokes Brookland Waitlists

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe how stiff the competition is for this school sheesh

It’s the only option in the city if you are interested in French (we didn’t apply to any other immersion schools). We tried 4 years in a row (made it to #1 on the WL once) and eventually gave up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe how stiff the competition is for this school sheesh

It’s the only option in the city if you are interested in French (we didn’t apply to any other immersion schools). We tried 4 years in a row (made it to #1 on the WL once) and eventually gave up.

And thus, you're really competing for 15 seats at Pk3, and just a couple more every year after that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe how stiff the competition is for this school sheesh

It’s the only option in the city if you are interested in French (we didn’t apply to any other immersion schools). We tried 4 years in a row (made it to #1 on the WL once) and eventually gave up.

And thus, you're really competing for 15 seats at Pk3, and just a couple more every year after that.

I was just looking at our PK4 numbers from 2 years ago - we were at #3 in the initial lottery draw for French and never got a call.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe how stiff the competition is for this school sheesh

It’s the only option in the city if you are interested in French (we didn’t apply to any other immersion schools). We tried 4 years in a row (made it to #1 on the WL once) and eventually gave up.

And thus, you're really competing for 15 seats at Pk3, and just a couple more every year after that.

I was just looking at our PK4 numbers from 2 years ago - we were at #3 in the initial lottery draw for French and never got a call.

These odds are making me depressed. Did you eventually get in the next year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe how stiff the competition is for this school sheesh

It’s the only option in the city if you are interested in French (we didn’t apply to any other immersion schools). We tried 4 years in a row (made it to #1 on the WL once) and eventually gave up.

And thus, you're really competing for 15 seats at Pk3, and just a couple more every year after that.

I was just looking at our PK4 numbers from 2 years ago - we were at #3 in the initial lottery draw for French and never got a call.

These odds are making me depressed. Did you eventually get in the next year?

Nope - we've had really good luck in the lottery otherwise too - this year (for 1st grade) we're again sitting in single digits for French, but I don't expect it to go anywhere. Stokes and DC Bilingual are the only Wards 5/6 charter schools we've never gotten into (of the 12 more popular ones among the DCUM crowd).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe how stiff the competition is for this school sheesh

It’s the only option in the city if you are interested in French (we didn’t apply to any other immersion schools). We tried 4 years in a row (made it to #1 on the WL once) and eventually gave up.

And thus, you're really competing for 15 seats at Pk3, and just a couple more every year after that.

I was just looking at our PK4 numbers from 2 years ago - we were at #3 in the initial lottery draw for French and never got a call.

These odds are making me depressed. Did you eventually get in the next year?

Nope - we've had really good luck in the lottery otherwise too - this year (for 1st grade) we're again sitting in single digits for French, but I don't expect it to go anywhere. Stokes and DC Bilingual are the only Wards 5/6 charter schools we've never gotten into (of the 12 more popular ones among the DCUM crowd).

I just looked at the numbers from two years ago and I see they made 3 offers, but I'm assuming they went to siblings. Smh. Welp.

[Anonymous]

That's why Stokes replicated.

[Anonymous]

I called last week. I was specifically asking about prek4, but admissions indicated that several offers went out and that they have until the end of the week to accept. So I assume we'll have a better idea of all of this next week.

[Anonymous]

Last year we were #13 on the waitlist for spanish pk4. We received an offer in late September/early October. So, it moved at least that far...there's hope!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year we were #13 on the waitlist for spanish pk4. We received an offer in late September/early October. So, it moved at least that far...there's hope!

How has your LO’s experience been?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year we were #13 on the waitlist for spanish pk4. We received an offer in late September/early October. So, it moved at least that far...there's hope!

Why did they have so many openings last year? Did they open up a new class?

[Anonymous]

My K numbers, 80s Spanish, 40s French, just dropped by 1. First movement in a long time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last year we were #13 on the waitlist for spanish pk4. We received an offer in late September/early October. So, it moved at least that far...there's hope!

How has your LO’s experience been?

We ended up not taking the offer. It was a weird situation. They called and offered the spot to my PK4 child. I asked if they also had space for my K child (or what the likelihood would be of them eventually getting in). They said they would check and call me back when an administrator was in the office. I never received a call back, but I did receive an automated MySchool email the next morning that I had declined the spot.

I think they were in a rush to fill spots before "count day" and couldn't be bothered by follow-up questions. It really annoyed me at the time and we were/are happy at our current school, so just let it go and stayed put.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year we were #13 on the waitlist for spanish pk4. We received an offer in late September/early October. So, it moved at least that far...there's hope!

How has your LO’s experience been?

We ended up not taking the offer. It was a weird situation. They called and offered the spot to my PK4 child. I asked if they also had space for my K child (or what the likelihood would be of them eventually getting in). They said they would check and call me back when an administrator was in the office. I never received a call back, but I did receive an automated MySchool email the next morning that I had declined the spot.

I think they were in a rush to fill spots before "count day" and couldn't be bothered by follow-up questions. It really annoyed me at the time and we were/are happy at our current school, so just let it go and stayed put.

This is a bit more promising at least

[Anonymous]

We got in off the Spanish K waitlist on Friday, and we are thrilled. We were #2 when we got the offer, and started out at #4, so we were very well positioned, but I wasn't terribly hopeful. We accepted the spot.