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statistics on dcps website for last years OOB lottery
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Anonymous
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Occasionally people ask about their chances in the OOB lottery. This DCPS webpage has good detail on how many got in,waitlisted etc.
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Enrollment/TMO-ENROLLMENT-Results-for-09-10-OOB-and-PS-PK-lottery-Dec-15-2009.pdf |
Anonymous
| I'd be curious to see the "final" numbers. I know that Murch took a few OOB K kids w/o sibs after school started (they ended up with a handful of empty spots). Eaton added a few K students too. |
Anonymous
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I don't think final numbers have ever been collated and released. In previous years, the detail linked above has been released in real time, at the time of the lottery, not months later.
In order to release final numbers, each DCPS school would have to reveal the under the table horse trading that happens after the lottery letters in May, and before the final enrollment count in October. This is the time period when things like admission of staff kids, admission of the mayor's kids, not offering spaces to children in the order of their lottery number but giving the squeaky wheel the OOB space, all happens. I have been the squeaky wheel and benefited, have been the silent wheel and waited for a phone call I should have gotten given how high my child's lottery number was, and never received. Both of these occurred in the pre-Rhee days. |
Anonymous
| Can someone please help. Just to make sure I am reading this correctly...is this saying for Key Elementary 20 in boundary kids did not get in? Am I reading this correctly? |
Anonymous
It's saying that 20 in-boundary kids didn't get in initially, when the lottery was first conducted. Most likely, though, some number of kids who did get lottery slots decided not to attend, meaning that some number of the 20 ended up getting in off the waitlist. |
Anonymous
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I don't totally get this... So there's a lottery for in-boundary kids? Is that just for Pre K?
In any case, this makes me kind of want to hurl. Or move. |
Anonymous
In-boundary kids are in the lottery only for pre-K because pre-K is optional. So there are a certain number of slots and a lottery that prioritizes in-boundary kids. In-boundary kids are guaranteed slots in their neighborhood school for K-12. |
Anonymous
| moving won't help you with pre-k |
Anonymous
| 34 of the 39 slots were sibilings and 5 were in boundry. I would venture to say that most of the 34 siblings did not give up slots and accepted. Additionally, I doubt all 5 of the without sibs inboundry gave up slots-so maybe 3-5 got in off the waitlist got in? It still seems to me that close to 15 in boundry children did not get in. I wonder how we can chek and find out how many inboundy children did/di not get in? |
Anonymous
| I think that they have to let in bounds kids in. I'm guessing it is a typo but someone could call Key and check. My understanding is that an influx of inbounds kids generally bumps up class size, that is why the first grade classes at Murch are large this year. Of course, another option is to create another class. I don't think you can be denied a spot in bounds. |
Anonymous
| As is stated earlier in this thread, you can be denied an inboundary slot for preK. |