Arlington lottery questions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of sibling preferences and make it so a child can only win a lottery once. The ATS to HB Woodlawn pipeline makes no sense.

There is no sibling preference at HB

[Anonymous]

Just got results (waitlisted at Arlington Tech)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got results (waitlisted at Arlington Tech)

Same here. How far down do you think they might go on the waitlist?

[Anonymous]

Same for Arlington Tech. Any realistic chance of coming off waitlist? At what number?

[Anonymous]

I just looked at last year's data, and making some assumptions it looks like maybe they went down ~100 or so spots on the waitlist? Not sure I'm right about this. Last year for 9th grade there were 352 applications, 130 spots, and 117 students are on the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Thanks - that's helpful. I need to go look up how many applicants this year.

[Anonymous]

DC applied only to IB program. I wonder if these will get released in the same alphabetical order as the lottery last week if they're now releasing results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks - that's helpful. I need to go look up how many applicants this year.

Where is this info?

[Anonymous]

Latest data is not available yet (except for HB).

https://www.apsva.us/school-transfer-data/

[Anonymous]

DS waitlisted for HBW along with many dozens of others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There were 31 applicants from my kid's ES and 3 selected. ATS had 50+ applicants so probably just about the whole 5th grade class applied.

there are 125 kids at ATS in 5th right now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of sibling preferences and make it so a child can only win a lottery once. The ATS to HB Woodlawn pipeline makes no sense.

Sure it can. Kids develop skills in elementary school and change as they become tweens.

The philosophies of the schools are polar opposites. ATS students should be rejected out of hand for spots at HBW.

I have a kid at HBW and at a neighborhood middle school and I don’t see much of a practical difference in terms of how their philosophies impact my kids’ educational experiences. So much of education these days is standardized so a school can’t really do its own thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of sibling preferences and make it so a child can only win a lottery once. The ATS to HB Woodlawn pipeline makes no sense.

There is no sibling preference at HB

Maybe not officially but it's curious how there are a number of kids with siblings who are concurrently attending H-B now (including from N Arlington schools). One even got in through the much more limited hs seat allotment.