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laurengames
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District of Columbia International School is DC’s only public IB for all, language focused middle and high school. At our campus at Delano Hall on the former Walter Reed site, we currently have 800 students in 6-10th grade. We will grow to 12th grade as we graduate our first class in 2020. DCI member schools (DC Bilingual, Elsie Whitlow Stokes, Mundo Verde, Latin American Montessori Bilingual and Washington Yu Ying PCS) students receive preference to attend. We also accept students from the My School DC common lottery, which opens on December 11th, 2017. DCI has been ranked as a Tier 1 School by the DC PCSB. We welcome DC residents to come learn more about the school at one of the following events:
-DCI hosts monthly info sessions at 5:30pm in the school’s 2nd floor Theater on the following dates: -December 5th, 2017 -January 9th, 2018 -February 6th, 2018 -February 27th, 2018 Please check in with the front desk upon arrival. No registration is required. Check DCI’s website for updates. -DCI also hosts info sessions during the school day for 5th grade feeder school families and buddy days for our incoming fifth graders from our member schools. Those dates are TBD and will be shared through the feeder schools themselves. -We are attending EdFEST 2017 on Saturday, December 9th! Look for our middle school at booth #908 and our high school at booth #2222. -Once students are accepted through the lottery, we schedule morning tours for all prospective families with the opportunity to observe classes and see the building. Please join us, we look forward to sharing DCI with you! Follow us on Twitter (@DCISchool) and Facebook (@DCInternationalSchool) to see daily updates on student work and events. |
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DCI 6th grade waitlist:
Chinese: 32 French: 49 Spanish: 97 |
Anonymous
Source? |
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Here you go. You can look up the last few years here. I'm not sure what 17:10 was trying to say by posting this however.
https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay |
Anonymous
| Thanks for posting the schedule. They all look like Tuesday nights. May I suggest that you do them on different days of the week going forward to be available for the greatest number of people? I would love to come but have a weekly Tuesday night work conflict. I would guess other people might be in the same boat. |
Anonymous
| I know this has probably been asked before - but with regards to common lottery, what language skills are needed prior to entry? Can a student with only basic (ie: non-immersion) language skills be admitted? |
Anonymous
There are no admission criteria other than being the proper age/grade and living in DC. This is true for all charter schools in DC. So there are no required language skills prior to entry. |
Anonymous
You pick a language in the lottery -- and a separate one is run for each language. So if you don't have a language preference, you can use 3 of your lottery picks for DCI (one for each language). |
Anonymous
Numbers don't match the ones listed above. |
Anonymous
The numbers listed above were the initial wait list, from immediately after lottery http://www.dcpcsb.org/evaluating/waitlist-data The Tableau link shows how many seats they opened, and how many calls to people on the wait list were made. |
Anonymous
Do open slots listed here include the feeder schools? Or after those are taken into account already? |
Anonymous
The initial seats available on Tableau does not include feeder school seats -- which is why, I think, they tend to go a little deeper into their waitlist. They hold seats for all the feeder students initially and then later backfill any unexpected spaces with new students. There's not a lot of lag, however, as all feeder students must list DCI first in the lottery to take advantage of their guaranteed space. |
Anonymous
| OP -can you clarify what "preference" means for member schools getting a spot at DCI? Our daughter is in PreK3 at DCB and we were told when we applied/enrolled (I know we are very lucky) that DCB students were guaranteed a spot, but that as other member schools added new campuses, those students may have to apply to their own schools' lotteries in order to gain spots at DCI. DCB has not added any classrooms or campuses, so does the preference vs. guaranteed spot apply to DCB students? |
Anonymous
PP you really should talk to your principal. DCB is making noise about replicating, which, depending on timing and how they plan to launch (with just Pk3, or with PK3, PK4 and PK5) would put you in the same board as parents of Pk3 and PK4 students at Stokes and MV when their new campuses open. |
Anonymous
Each elementary gets a specified number of slots for 6th grade admissions. The term "preference" is used because that's the word for the different priority groups- "sibling preference", "founder preference", "employee preference", etc. Graduates of a feeder school have first preference for that number of slots. As long as the number of graduates is lower than the number of slots assigned to that feeder school that year, the 6th grade seat at DCI is guaranteed. |