26-27 Lottery data up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are PK3 wait-list numbers for non-immersions, for comparison.

Inspired - 87
Haynes - 31
Lee BL - 25
Two Rivers 4th - 21
Shining Stars - 6
Creative Minds - 5
Breakthrough - 3
Bridges - 3
Two Rivers Young - 3
Cap City - 2
Lee EE - 1

pk3? Did these used to stretch into the 300s? Is sela still around. What is going on? Have births tanked in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are PK3 wait-list numbers for non-immersions, for comparison.

Inspired - 87
Haynes - 31
Lee BL - 25
Two Rivers 4th - 21
Shining Stars - 6
Creative Minds - 5
Breakthrough - 3
Bridges - 3
Two Rivers Young - 3
Cap City - 2
Lee EE - 1

pk3? Did these used to stretch into the 300s? Is sela still around. What is going on? Have births tanked in DC?

Births have tanked. Some more desirable schools have expanded. Some DCPS have improved/expanded. And I do think people are less lottery-crazy than they used to be. Some schools that had major hype have lost their appeal entirely.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know why some Hill schools had fewer PK4 spots available in the lottery than they would have seats to fill (because each class goes from 16 to 20 between PK3 and PK4)? Brent - 2 spots with 2 classes. Payne - 15 spots with 3 classes. Ludlow 8 spots with 3 classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why some Hill schools had fewer PK4 spots available in the lottery than they would have seats to fill (because each class goes from 16 to 20 between PK3 and PK4)? Brent - 2 spots with 2 classes. Payne - 15 spots with 3 classes. Ludlow 8 spots with 3 classes.

Some schools have combined PK3/PK4 classes and that affects the totals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are PK3 wait-list numbers for non-immersions, for comparison.

Inspired - 87
Haynes - 31
Lee BL - 25
Two Rivers 4th - 21
Shining Stars - 6
Creative Minds - 5
Breakthrough - 3
Bridges - 3
Two Rivers Young - 3
Cap City - 2
Lee EE - 1

pk3? Did these used to stretch into the 300s? Is sela still around. What is going on? Have births tanked in DC?

Parent here: Sela is still around - and has a really fantastic new principal, one of the people who helped launch DCI. Based on my own conversations, what appears to have happened - and happened very specifically over the past two years - is that people seem to be nervous about sending their children to a very solid, diverse school with a great community because it happens to have Hebrew letters over the door, and we live in a world where that sometimes turns a building into a target for people who want to try to kill preschoolers (to use a not-hypothetical example.) The good news, if you don't mind that fact, is that hesitation leaves plenty of availability in a fantastic PK program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why some Hill schools had fewer PK4 spots available in the lottery than they would have seats to fill (because each class goes from 16 to 20 between PK3 and PK4)? Brent - 2 spots with 2 classes. Payne - 15 spots with 3 classes. Ludlow 8 spots with 3 classes.

Some schools have combined PK3/PK4 classes and that affects the totals.

Brent has combined PK3/4 and so I think the total is 17 in each of the 4 classes. But there are also Early Stages spots set aside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are PK3 wait-list numbers for non-immersions, for comparison.

Inspired - 87
Haynes - 31
Lee BL - 25
Two Rivers 4th - 21
Shining Stars - 6
Creative Minds - 5
Breakthrough - 3
Bridges - 3
Two Rivers Young - 3
Cap City - 2
Lee EE - 1

pk3? Did these used to stretch into the 300s? Is sela still around. What is going on? Have births tanked in DC?

Parent here: Sela is still around - and has a really fantastic new principal, one of the people who helped launch DCI. Based on my own conversations, what appears to have happened - and happened very specifically over the past two years - is that people seem to be nervous about sending their children to a very solid, diverse school with a great community because it happens to have Hebrew letters over the door, and we live in a world where that sometimes turns a building into a target for people who want to try to kill preschoolers (to use a not-hypothetical example.) The good news, if you don't mind that fact, is that hesitation leaves plenty of availability in a fantastic PK program.

Okay... But that's not a new thing. Sela matched 37 pk3s last year, only 19 this year.

[Anonymous]

Ok I got curious, here are the DCI feeder PK3 waitlists.

DCB - 319
LAMB - 237
You Ying - 180
Stokes BL Spanish - 163
MV CO - 116
Stokes BL French - 90
MV Cook - 49
Stokes EE Spanish - 11
Stokes EE French - 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are PK3 wait-list numbers for non-immersions, for comparison.

Inspired - 87
Haynes - 31
Lee BL - 25
Two Rivers 4th - 21
Shining Stars - 6
Creative Minds - 5
Breakthrough - 3
Bridges - 3
Two Rivers Young - 3
Cap City - 2
Lee EE - 1

pk3? Did these used to stretch into the 300s? Is sela still around. What is going on? Have births tanked in DC?

Parent here: Sela is still around - and has a really fantastic new principal, one of the people who helped launch DCI. Based on my own conversations, what appears to have happened - and happened very specifically over the past two years - is that people seem to be nervous about sending their children to a very solid, diverse school with a great community because it happens to have Hebrew letters over the door, and we live in a world where that sometimes turns a building into a target for people who want to try to kill preschoolers (to use a not-hypothetical example.) The good news, if you don't mind that fact, is that hesitation leaves plenty of availability in a fantastic PK program.

PP here. I just wondered because sela had waitlist numbers like these when these others had hundreds. I know it was always a beloved school by families who enrolled though families enrolled when they got shut out of other charters and it looks liek those other charters will now be clearing their waitlist. I hadn't thought about how the the gaza genocide would affect it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are PK3 wait-list numbers for non-immersions, for comparison.

Inspired - 87
Haynes - 31
Lee BL - 25
Two Rivers 4th - 21
Shining Stars - 6
Creative Minds - 5
Breakthrough - 3
Bridges - 3
Two Rivers Young - 3
Cap City - 2
Lee EE - 1

Inspired looks ok, but these monetossri schools are going to need to consolodate

pk3? Did these used to stretch into the 300s? Is sela still around. What is going on? Have births tanked in DC?

Births have tanked. Some more desirable schools have expanded. Some DCPS have improved/expanded. And I do think people are less lottery-crazy than they used to be. Some schools that had major hype have lost their appeal entirely.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCI has a waitlists from most feeders schools. Do you think everyone will get a seat?

I’m wondering this too

Absolutely not. They expanded the elementary schools far beyond the number of DCI seats. Those kids aren’t going to Latin or Basis, so there’s no better middle school option for them without moving.

Isn't it a little crazy to have a feeder system where not every kid is guaranteed a seat at the feeder middle/high school?

No, not crazy at all if the feeders have expanded and DCI has gotten a lot more desirable and overwhelming majority of kids are going there for middle. DCI does not have the space to expand in the current building. It’s a good thing for DCI that many families want it as it continues on its upward trajectory.

The feeder schools also make it clear that there is no guarantee. We knew this last year and got in. In fact, we got into Latin Cooper the year before and declined because we really wanted DCI. 2 families we knew took Latin spots. Some families did not play the lottery for 5th at all.

So we were willing to take the risk and 60/70% per our school of getting in. We got into DCI and my kids group of friends, they all got in. Chances of sending my kid to his IB middle - absolutely 0%.

Looking back in retrospect is much easier but it was the right decision for us and kid is having a really good experience at DCI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has a waitlists from most feeders schools. Do you think everyone will get a seat?

I’m wondering this too

Absolutely not. They expanded the elementary schools far beyond the number of DCI seats. Those kids aren’t going to Latin or Basis, so there’s no better middle school option for them without moving.

Isn't it a little crazy to have a feeder system where not every kid is guaranteed a seat at the feeder middle/high school?

No issue with high school seats at all. DCI middle school kids all can go to the high school. In fact, we know a number of kids who got into Walls and declined the spots the past 2 years.

It’s only the middle school seats that are not guaranteed from schools that have expanded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has a waitlists from most feeders schools. Do you think everyone will get a seat?

I’m wondering this too

Absolutely not. They expanded the elementary schools far beyond the number of DCI seats. Those kids aren’t going to Latin or Basis, so there’s no better middle school option for them without moving.

Isn't it a little crazy to have a feeder system where not every kid is guaranteed a seat at the feeder middle/high school?

No, not crazy at all if the feeders have expanded and DCI has gotten a lot more desirable and overwhelming majority of kids are going there for middle. DCI does not have the space to expand in the current building. It’s a good thing for DCI that many families want it as it continues on its upward trajectory.

The feeder schools also make it clear that there is no guarantee. We knew this last year and got in. In fact, we got into Latin Cooper the year before and declined because we really wanted DCI. 2 families we knew took Latin spots. Some families did not play the lottery for 5th at all.

So we were willing to take the risk and 60/70% per our school of getting in. We got into DCI and my kids group of friends, they all got in. Chances of sending my kid to his IB middle - absolutely 0%.

Looking back in retrospect is much easier but it was the right decision for us and kid is having a really good experience at DCI.

We are at a feeder and DCI and everyone we know played the lottery for Latin in 5th and many were disappointed they didn’t get in. There are definitely parents that don’t really desire DCI but don’t have another feasible option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oooh how thrilling! That was quick.

McKinley Tech matched 250 and waitlisted 12. This is the first year in the data that it filled its whole 250-seat offering. More applicants than last year.

Banneker had a dip in applicants, but matched 239 of 260 offered seats.

Walls had 1449 applicants, filled all 260 offered seats, and waitlisted 226.

For Ellington you have to go through each, but it seems like Cinema didn't fill, Dance did, Instrumental didn't, Museum Studies didn't, Tech didn't, Theater didn't, Visual didn't, and Vocal didn't. Leaving them pretty short of kids.

Explain this to a novice. It says they had 1126 applicants and "matched" 239 of the 260 seats. Huh?

[Anonymous]

Also at a DCI feeder with a DCI offer (thankfully) and families that didn’t get in are talking about moving. Precarious situation to be in and I feel terribly for those kids who are facing both that disappointment and a major transition.