Cost for boundary lottery?

[Anonymous]

We are interested in entering the out-of-boundary lottery for DC public schools. Anyone know what it costs? I'm assuming you only pay if your child actually gets into the school of their choice?

[Anonymous]

I don't think it costs anything in DC. There's also no charge for sending your kid to an out-of-boundary school, unless you're going outside of DC, to say, Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are interested in entering the out-of-boundary lottery for DC public schools. Anyone know what it costs? I'm assuming you only pay if your child actually gets into the school of their choice?

If you are not a DC resident, then the tuition is $11,987 annually for pre-school and $11,629 for K. It goes down from there for higher grades. If you do not pay the amount in full, you are required to pay a deposit in August (this year the deposit for pre-school was $1197), then you can pay monthly.

I don't know if DC residents pay tuition for oob schools. Perhaps the pp's response is correct.

[Anonymous]

DC residents do not pay a cent to attend OOB schools. The lottery is not monetary, it's a selection process. DC attended a DCPS school on an OOB basis. We paid nothing.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure that if it's a high demand school that non-District residents go to the end of the line. In other words, if the school were say, Lafayette, a non-DC resident would automatically be behind ALL of the waitlisted students in the OOB lottery, and THEN if you STILL managed to get in, you would be charged the DC tuition rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure that if it's a high demand school that non-District residents go to the end of the line. In other words, if the school were say, Lafayette, a non-DC resident would automatically be behind ALL of the waitlisted students in the OOB lottery, and THEN if you STILL managed to get in, you would be charged the DC tuition rate.

Unfortunately, this is not true. As unfair as it might seem to DC residents. All OOB applicants are put into the same lottery pool and selected randomly. I am a MD resident and have two children in a popular language immersion program at a DCPS school. There are DC residents still on the waiting list for our school.

[Anonymous]

14:24 I'd be really peeved if I were on that school's waitlist. I have never heard of such a thing. My child attended a popular language immersion school for a number of years as an OOB student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure that if it's a high demand school that non-District residents go to the end of the line. In other words, if the school were say, Lafayette, a non-DC resident would automatically be behind ALL of the waitlisted students in the OOB lottery, and THEN if you STILL managed to get in, you would be charged the DC tuition rate.

Unfortunately, this is not true. As unfair as it might seem to DC residents. All OOB applicants are put into the same lottery pool and selected randomly. I am a MD resident and have two children in a popular language immersion program at a DCPS school. There are DC residents still on the waiting list for our school.

So how much do you pay for being MD resident at a DC public school? Is info above correct?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for the info everyone. You just saved me the $11K I thought it was going to cost us to try to get our child into a school out of boundary!

And re: the unfairness of MD residents being in the same pool with DC folks for schools, we DC residents are sadly used to getting shafted. Taxation Without Representation!

[Anonymous]

Yes, the nonresident tuition rate posted above is correct for SY '09-10