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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have until the end of March.

Diverse and also high-performing is hard to find in DC.  I would suggest you plan on paying for private preschool, and do some hard thinking about whether you care more about diversity, [b]or about the academic performance of kids who will likely alll have graduated from the school before your child starts Kindergarten.[/b][/quote]

This poster makes it sound as if the current test scores of the school are basically irrelevant. This is only the case if you assume that the school is rapidly gentrifying and that the kids currently in PK will actually stay beyond that and raise test scores, which is probably not true for most schools.

Here is the reality of the lottery: it takes and increasing amount of very good luck to get into one of the popular charter schools, and it is impossible to get into any of the popular DCPS schools if you are out of boundary. For PK though, you are likely going to be fine at your neighborhood school or any number of less popular charters. BTDT. DCPS and DCPCS do PK well across the board. So do put some "safeties" on your list if you don't want to pay for private. For the higher grades, you may have higher expectations with regard to academics and peer group, and you may very well have to move or go private. Good luck.[/quote]

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