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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did we essentially miss the boat if we didn't get in with pre-k 3? I'm looking at some of the waitlist numbers and it seems there are minimal availabilites in the schools we would want after pre-k3. Am I reading these numbers wrong or are we essentially talking just 1 or 2 spaces to lottery into each year after pre-k?

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The numbers are accurate. Which school are you looking? If the school is great, the chances of people leaving are slim.[/quote]

Was looking at Inspired Teaching, LAMB, and then some of the Petworth traditional publics like John Lewis, Dorothy Height and EL Haynes. [/quote]

You missed the boat on LAMB but you could get spots at the others. One thing you may not realize from the waitlist numbers is that that as you go up in grade, the number of people trying to lottery in goes way down. This results in much shorter waitlists, and they often move more. Like look at John Lewis. Last year they had 356 applications for 35 PK3 spots , and 92 applications for 9 PK4 spots. Roughly 10 applications for every PK spot, plus consider many of those applicants are IB.

But there were just 50 applications for 10 K spots -- 5 applications per spot. So your chances are twice as good in K as they would be in PK, plus unlike in PK, every one of those K applications is OOB. So your waitlist number will only be bumped down for siblings. And it gets better! A significant number of those 50 applications actually matched with a school they ranked higher than John Lewis in the lottery, so even though only 10 of those 50 applicants got spots on match day, the waitlist for K was only 14 kids long. And then they made 8 waitlist offers. All by June. So of the 50 families vying for a spot in John Lewis's K class in the lottery last year, only 6 were SOL. Those are actually pretty darn good odds.[/quote]

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