Middle schools and the lottery

[Anonymous]

So I spent a decent amount of time over the weekend discussing middle school lottery results with people, and what I see is peoples' insecurities leading them to being overly critical of other peoples' decisions. We don't all have the same life experiences, the same tolerances and preferences, the same circumstances, or the same kids. A good decision for one family (which may or may not work out) is not necessarily the right decision for another family. But can't we all support one another? The people I know choosing something different than our family aren't rash decision makers who don't care about their children's welfare. So by all means, share your experiences and your decision making processes. But how about everyone leaves their judgement at home?

[Anonymous]

Everyone is still pining for Deal, Hardy, SH, Basis and Latin

All of those schools have large waitlists

Jefferson is showing great improvement so I would go there next for all the people stuck

The fact remains that there are not enough high quality middle schools slots for folks and people are going private or moving instead of staying in DCPS which hurts everyone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is still pining for Deal, Hardy, SH, Basis and Latin

All of those schools have large waitlists

Jefferson is showing great improvement so I would go there next for all the people stuck

The fact remains that there are not enough high quality middle schools slots for folks and people are going private or moving instead of staying in DCPS which hurts everyone

I think you mean "everyone you know" is pining for those 5 schools.

Here are last year's 5th or 6th-grade WLs (whichever is the MS entry year) that exceeded 50 students. Obviously, we don't know how many were unique applicants but many other schools are in demand and enrolling students at MS.

BASIS 133
CHML 59
CMI 80
Deal 317
DCI Chinese 99
DCI French 131
DCI Spanish 247
EL Haynes 75
Hardy 192
ITS 50
KIPP AIM 106
KIPP Key 113
Latin 338
SH 129 (only accepted 4! from WL)
TR4 162

[Anonymous]

Other ECs with long waitlists at 6th are:
Oyster-Adams: 119
SWW at Francis: 172

Neither made any offers.

[Anonymous]

I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

less nefarious - private school entry, notably parochial schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

less nefarious - private school entry, notably parochial schools

^^should say "flight" from public school not District necessarily

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

less nefarious - private school entry, notably parochial schools

^^should say "flight" from public school not District necessarily

Note that they all come back in 9th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

less nefarious - private school entry, notably parochial schools

^^should say "flight" from public school not District necessarily

Note that they all come back in 9th grade.

still not great! DC should find those 900 families and ask them what have made them stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

less nefarious - private school entry, notably parochial schools

^^should say "flight" from public school not District necessarily

Note that they all come back in 9th grade.

still not great! DC should find those 900 families and ask them what have made them stay.

nah, I'm happy to have their tax dollars and not need to educate their kids. We come out ahead that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basis accepted 135 students into 5th grade and there are 188 on the waitlist.

Someone in another thread firmly asserted that they only accepted 110 this year — that they’ll accept more depending upon 9th grade matriculation.

Are you someone with access to the MySchool data?

NP here and BASIS parent who had a long interesting talk with the administration last week - this year 130 were accepted. Wait list will depend completely on 8-9th grade attrition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCI had something like 10 applicants for every available spot---which will be taken by feeders.

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NotMy daughter got into Spanish track, not from feeder school, but with sibling preference. She is 23 on wait list for Chinese track

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

less nefarious - private school entry, notably parochial schools

^^should say "flight" from public school not District necessarily

Note that they all come back in 9th grade.

still not great! DC should find those 900 families and ask them what have made them stay.

nah, I'm happy to have their tax dollars and not need to educate their kids. We come out ahead that way.

I think we come out ahead with everyone participating in public education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was curious how many fifth & sixth graders there are in the context of these waitlists. Combined DCPS & charter enrollment drops by 900 kids between fifth & sixth grade! Is that because of kids being held back or flight? Good grief!

https://www.dcpcsb.org/data/evaluating-student-enrollment/student-enrollment
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

less nefarious - private school entry, notably parochial schools

^^should say "flight" from public school not District necessarily

Note that they all come back in 9th grade.

still not great! DC should find those 900 families and ask them what have made them stay.

That's not how DC rolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI had something like 10 applicants for every available spot---which will be taken by feeders.

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NotMy daughter got into Spanish track, not from feeder school, but with sibling preference. She is 23 on wait list for Chinese track

Is her sibling in the Spanish track or the Chinese track? My understanding is that sibling preference only works for the track that the sibling is in.