Register for Pre-K3 late?
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Anonymous
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I'm guessing the answer to this question is no, but I'll ask anyway...
We are moving to DC in May with our 3 year old. Is there any way to get her into pre-K3 come September even though we were too late to join the lottery system? I.e. maybe she can still join a pre-K3 class if we end up being in-boundary for that school? Thanks! |
Anonymous
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There is a post-lottery application period and a way to identify schools with zero or short wait lists.
https://www.myschooldc.org/faq/faqs#post-lotto There are also PK options outside of myschooldc that you can contact. https://www.myschooldc.org/find-schools/school-options-outside-my-school-dc |
Anonymous
| There are plenty of PK3 options that have post-lottery openings, and more will likely open come September. |
Anonymous
You can submit a lottery application once you move. You will maintain your preference at your inbounds school. If the school is not popular, you might luck out — for example if there are no inbounds kids left on the waitlist, then you will be at the top of it. Might be worth applying to the apple trees and other schools that sometimes go through their whole waitlist. What is the inbounds school? |
Anonymous
+1 to both of these. Also, FWIW, depending on which area you move to, there are also some schools that function as de facto overflow schools and have decently long waitlists, but go through those waitlists quickly. For example, I know of two different families in the Petworth area who applied for PK3 last year after the deadline and both got placements within a few weeks. I know one of them put Dorothy Height (Petworth's unofficial overflow school with no in-boundary area) on their list and got offered a slot two weeks after the lottery, even though the waitlist on lottery day was 40-something families, because so many families in Petworth use it as a backup plan. |
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