Full waitlist length data now on MSDC site

[Anonymous]

The full waitlist length data now on MSDC site, including charters. As expected, waitlist lengths are down everywhere.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay

Latin's WL went from 436 in 5th grade last year to 288. BASIS went from 218 to 114.
DCB PK3 last year was 329 and this year is 249. Same across all the other Ward 5 schools. SSMA has no waitlist for PK3

[Anonymous]

Both Two Rivers campuses waitlists are basically cut in half from last year. Have that many people fled the city, or are people just tired of change and staying at their current care or school situation?

[Anonymous]

I see the DCI lottery is broken out by feeder school and there are a few feeders that had a kid get waitlisted. But I wonder if the kid really didn't get a seat or is it that sibling rule where you stay on the waitlist I'd you have a sibling even if you match at a school you ranked higher...

[Anonymous]

Sorry to be dense, but why are waitlists for Basis and Latin down so much? Is this really because so many kids have moved and/or are going private?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both Two Rivers campuses waitlists are basically cut in half from last year. Have that many people fled the city, or are people just tired of change and staying at their current care or school situation?

That is only the case for PK. If you look at K for example, the waitlist is 74, down from 84 last year. I assume this means more people are choosing not to send their prek kids to school next year in favor of keeping at home, nanny shares, smaller preschools etc. Not too surprising given the unknowns about school next year and the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to be dense, but why are waitlists for Basis and Latin down so much? Is this really because so many kids have moved and/or are going private?

It seems like that.

Shorter waitlists = either the school grew or fewer people applied.

I'm going to bet that most schools are not growing this year, what with the pandemic and potentially shrinking budgets.

Fewer people applying = They are moving or going private, or they aren't attempting to change schools. So the only way those kids are staying in DCPS or DCPCS is there's a huge increase in everyone being super satisfied with their current school. That doesn't seem....realistic.

[Anonymous]

The waitlists for desired schools are still really long. We did not get into any of our top choices and probably won't, even our IB which is often listed here as a good option for people oob. So in the end not much will really change except everyone had a slightly better chance of getting what they wanted.

[Anonymous]

Any chance Latin waitlist will move 60ish places this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any chance Latin waitlist will move 60ish places this year?

Nope.

[Anonymous]

SWW: 143 seats, 270 on WL.

Only 101 on the WL last year, and almost everyone got in.

Given the cluster this year, it will be interesting to see how many get in off the WL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both Two Rivers campuses waitlists are basically cut in half from last year. Have that many people fled the city, or are people just tired of change and staying at their current care or school situation?

Some of the other HRCS numbers went down a little bit but nowhere near 50%. I think the failure to have any successful hybrid IPL this spring is not a good sign for the fall and could be a factor, especially for ECE.

[Anonymous]

My fear is this doesn't mean an exodus of DCUM from the city, but a large population of kids falling through the cracks. There are still kids "missing" from our HRCS despite all efforts to bring them into the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My fear is this doesn't mean an exodus of DCUM from the city, but a large population of kids falling through the cracks. There are still kids "missing" from our HRCS despite all efforts to bring them into the school.

Oh good point.

[Anonymous]

If re-enrollment paperwork isn't due until later in the spring, how do schools know how many lottery seats are available? For instance, I'm looking at my child's (charter) ES and there are a few lottery slots in every grade. Whereas JKLMM have zero lottery spots for rising/upper grades. I understand they're at max capacity with IB, so that means there's no chance for "school choice" at these schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both Two Rivers campuses waitlists are basically cut in half from last year. Have that many people fled the city, or are people just tired of change and staying at their current care or school situation?

That is only the case for PK. If you look at K for example, the waitlist is 74, down from 84 last year. I assume this means more people are choosing not to send their prek kids to school next year in favor of keeping at home, nanny shares, smaller preschools etc. Not too surprising given the unknowns about school next year and the pandemic.

And for Two Rivers 4th, there was only 1 lottery seat for Pre-k 4 this year, whereas there’s been around ~10 lottery seats available for Pre-k 4 in each of the previous few years. So even with an appreciably shorter waitlist, it seems like the odds of getting in are slim(mer), even with a WL# in the single digits, which, historically, would typically give you a solid shot off getting a call by October. But who knows...