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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was intrigued by the discussion on the waitlist thread about the low waitlists for application high schools. A poster on that thread estimated that there were about 1,300 7th graders in DC who got 4s or 5s on PARCC and would have been eligible to apply for these schools (all but Ellington now include PARCC + GPA as admission criteria). Since 7th graders may take different math tests, I calculated the number of 7th graders at DC schools with a 4 or 5 on the PARCC ELA and multiplied that by .75 (estimating that 75% of kids who got a 4 or 5 on PARCC ELA also had qualifying math and GPA scores).

Here are the results, for all schools with 20 or more "eligible" kids. The total number of eligible kids across the city is around 1,360:

Deal: 306
KIPP: 53
DCI: 73
Basis: 70
Hardy: 58
DC Prep: 55
Friendship: 50
Stuart-Hobson: 49
Latin: 46
Center City: 39
Oyster-Adams: 36
Jefferson: 32
EL Haynes: 27
Chavez: 26
Capital City: 23
Kelly Miller: 20
CHEC: 20

Many of these kids are in a feeder pattern where they might stay and continue high school - I'd estimate about 600 out of the 1,360 would choose to stay in their feeder track.

That leaves 760 kids with qualifying scores in the pool for application high schools, which offered 670 seats as follows:

School Without Walls: 140
Banneker: 170
McKinley: 220
Phelps: 140

Based on these rough estimates, I think it's reasonable to assume that all kids who meet the criteria (at least currently) can get a seat at an application high school.[b] I'd be interested to know if the matching algorithm might allow a kid to match to Banneker if they are on the SWW waitlist - I know the algorithm works differently for these schools.[/b][/quote]

No.

If the student applied to both SWW and Banneker (or SWW, Banneker, Ellington and McKinley) and all schools deemed the student 'admitted' the student would only be matched with teh school they ranked the highest. The student would never know their results for the other 3, and the student would not appear on the WLs.

Many students apply to multip,e application schools. When touring SWW in 2017 we met enrolled students who said they tried for Ellington and SWW (SWW was ranked first), and one who applied to Banneker and Walls (ranked Banneker highest but was only admitted to Walls)

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