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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good suggestions above.  Also, you can most likely rule out quite a few school based on an honest assessment of what kind of commute you can tolerate (not just to school but to and from work after if that is relevant).

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I’m in fort Totten very close to you. What kind of setting are you looking for? My daughter is in prek4. Got our initial offer from Yu Ying from the lottery, then got an offer from stokes French the end of August (which we took) and then last week got an offer for Stokes Spanish (which we also took). So now my daughter is at Stokes Spanish for prek4. Depending on if you want public/charter, Montessori, language immersion, etc. I can give you some guidance on the schools I visited and listed.[/quote]

It is also worth getting to know and love your in-bounds school. Without sibling preference, you will have to be quite lucky to get a lottery draw as high as PP apparently did. It is much more likely that you will get in to the one school where you will have preference: in-bounds preference. You may not love it forever, but it's worth strongly considering it and listing it. The idea of making friends in your neighborhood and having a short commute should not be underestimated and there are very few schools where I think PK3 is done poorly.

If you are not willing to list your IB school, there is a decent chance that you will need to keep your current childcare arrangement for another year. If you're ok with that (or with finding a different preschool--Scrilli is good and not too expensive) then you can reach for the stars, school-wise![/quote]

PP here again that got into YY/stokes Brookland.

What I will say is that I was pretty prepared in case we didn’t get into the best school. [b]We visited our in bounds[/b] (Lasalle) and met with the principal. He seems to really be working hard to advance the school and I liked the fact that many of the pre-K teachers have been there for a while. The pre-K program there seems pretty good, I think it’s 2nd and up where things might seem to go wrong. Even though I listed them 12th I was prepared if she was matched there. Also for Scrilli, they tend to have a waitlist also so that is t even guaranteed [/quote]

Hi PP, were there specific dates for open houses that you attended to visit the schools or would you go visit on your own discretion?
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