Waitlists are moving like crazy

[Anonymous]

Have anyone seen in certain grades and areas of the city that waitlists are moving crazy?

Anyone over K can basically get into Hyde Addison.

Stokes has a vacant 5th grade list in French and almost in Spanish for anyone trying to get into DCI.

If you check the Montessori block you can get into CHML at 3rd+

Ludlow Taylor is almost cleared in upper grades for a Stuart Hobson feed.

TRY/TR4 are trucking through their list at major speed.

Shining Stars Montessori is cleared in almost every grade.

Anyone wanting Spanish at any level starting at PK3 can get in at Bethune (at least Brooklands)

Langley and Seaton and Cleveland are pretty easy to get into for PK3 OOB. Thomson at K.

I'm assuming it is a pandemic blip, but for those schools on an upswing the pandemic has been brutal EOTP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone over K can basically get into Hyde Addison.

Huh? My kid is still in the double digits for a spot in 4th grade at H-A.

[Anonymous]

Enrollment is down. More room for kids on waitlists.

[Anonymous]

Agreed, our MV spots are dropping fast as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enrollment is down. More room for kids on waitlists.

yes everyone fled for private

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if we have any chance at BASIS with a current waitlist number in the 60's...we were in the 200s at first...but it seems highly unlikely that many people would turn a spot down?

[Anonymous]

Do you have a direct link to somewhere that shows this WL movement?

[Anonymous]

We are on PK4 for Stokes Spanish and French, MV, CHML, LT, TRY, and others, and have seen a lot of movement. We won't count any chickens until they hatch, but compared to the movement we saw for these same schools for PK3, I'm a lot more optimistic. Though I feel generally anxious about what it means for DC public schools (including charters) that demand for these spots seems to be down over prior years. Hopefully it's a blip and the folks who stuck it out through the pandemic will be extra committed.

The only schools that haven't moved at all are SWS and Maury. That makes sense because SWS is always very in demand and my impression on Capitol Hill is that a TON of people with young kids have moved inbounds for Maury in the last couple years, plus it's the #1 choice for a lot of people trying to lottery out of Miner. But a lot of movement elsewhere on the Hill.

[Anonymous]

It seems like a lot of families permanently relocated out of DC this year. People that were already thinking about going home or somewhere with a lower COL, then the pandemic happened and they could get an insane premium for their house and move somewhere with more space and in-person schools. I know a lot of MCPS families that fled for private, but EOTP families aren't giving up lottery seats for a year or two of in person private.

We got a TERRIBLE lottery draw this year for K and have seen more movement than we expected. Not enough to get into a first choice school, but surprisingly we may have a chance at a second choice school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a direct link to somewhere that shows this WL movement?

A week or so into July this website will be updated. But until then it's just watching your own waitlist numbers.

https://public.tableau.com/views/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no&:display_count=y&:display_static_image=y&:bootstrapWhenNotified=true

[Anonymous]

It does seem like Hyde is burning through their waitlist. We got an offer for 1st after adding it as a post lottery application.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to recover your "original" WL number? I forgot what they were (they were all so high so I didn't even bother), and so i can't really compare to what it is now LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of families permanently relocated out of DC this year. People that were already thinking about going home or somewhere with a lower COL, then the pandemic happened and they could get an insane premium for their house and move somewhere with more space and in-person schools. I know a lot of MCPS families that fled for private, but EOTP families aren't giving up lottery seats for a year or two of in person private.

We got a TERRIBLE lottery draw this year for K and have seen more movement than we expected. Not enough to get into a first choice school, but surprisingly we may have a chance at a second choice school.

We also had a terrible K lottery number (bottom 10% of every wait list we're on) and have been shocked at how quickly the numbers have dropped compared to PK4. I know K lists generally move more than PK lists, but it's still way more churn than I was expecting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if we have any chance at BASIS with a current waitlist number in the 60's...we were in the 200s at first...but it seems highly unlikely that many people would turn a spot down?

Ugh...got confused, that was for LATIN not BASIS...100s for BASIS, 200s for LATIN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a direct link to somewhere that shows this WL movement?

A week or so into July this website will be updated. But until then it's just watching your own waitlist numbers.

https://public.tableau.com/views/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no&:display_count=y&:display_static_image=y&:bootstrapWhenNotified=true

Right, given that, I don't understand how OP knows/thinks they know some of the stuff in the initial post. My DD has a WL number in the 20s at one of the schools s/he notes has "almost cleared" their WL in DD's grade.