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[quote=Anonymous]It's ok not to have safety schools if her plan is to move IB and pay for preschool.

OP, it's interesting that you have Yu Ying on your list. It will be hard for your 1st grader to get a seat-- since you're enrolling late, it might not happen at all, or not until after the school year starts. Since it's a charter, you can't move and have the right to it. So I question whether this is the right fit for your family. How will you feel if your 1st grader doesn't get in? Because if you rank Yu Ying 1st and your PK3 or K has a fantastic number and gets in, then they will not be waitlisted for any of the schools ranked below Yu Ying. And that means you've used a great lottery number on a school that isn't actually a good fit for your family.

You can view lottery results data for past years here:
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Since you've decided that Yu Ying is okay, and Spanish is okay, does that mean you're interested in other schools that feed to the same high school Yu Ying does (it's called DC International)? If so, I would recommend DC Bilingual and Latin American Montessori Bilingual, and I would not recommend Mundo Verde and Stokes.

It seems like what you really want is to live in upper NW and attend a JR feeder. So I think maybe the best for you is to rank Communikids, Appletree, Military Road, etc. highest for your PK3, enroll your other kids by moving IB, and not get involved with Capitol Hill schools at all. If you're not someone who can embrace a school with poor test scores, you won't be happy there long term.[/quote]

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