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[quote=Anonymous]You're not 0 for 2 yet.  There's often a ton of movement in late August through early October, and the school staff really hustles the lists along so they move fast.  Tell us your best numbers and we can try to guess your chances.

What grades are you talking about?  For PK3 and PK4, yes, the lottery is pretty hard.  Siblings take most of the PK3 spots.  We struck out for PK3, and struck out hard for PK4-- think literally the last number on the Mundo Verde list.  But for K, with a number right about at the median of most lists, got into ITS in mid-September.  It just doesn't take as good a number in K and 1st as it does in PK3 and PK4.  Also, many schools offer more seats in K than in PK4-- sometimes entire classrooms more.  So things loosen up quite a bit.  If you do want to continue living in DC, I think PK3 through Kindergarten at a less than great school is a reasonable price to pay.  It honestly doesn't matter that much in the long run where your child attends Kindergarten.

I do know some people who moved away, and I think the high housing costs in DC will continue to push people out to the burbs.  But the move-awayers often left good (or at least adequate) schools.  Everyone I know who continued to play the lottery landed somewhere they found satisfactory before October of 1st grade at the very latest.[/quote]

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