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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are your priorities? Are you fine w/Amidon for elementary? Are you hoping to secure an elementary path or just Prek?

In general, I would remove Maury and Peabody. You have no shot there for Prek OOB. Your chances at Payne and Van Ness are very slim as well. So fine to keep them, but consider removing them if you have other schools you'd like to consider instead. I would add in Miner Elementary and AppleTree Oklahoma (as a safety). You may want to add Brent. They are moving to swing space next year and there could be more opportunity in the lottery this year because of that. You may also want to look at Two Rivers.

Rank the schools in the order you prefer. If you truly have no preference between the two, then put the one who is harder to get in first. [/quote]

Priority is to eventually get into a good elementary school at some point and getting out of daycare this year. Little one has no siblings, so we can only hope for proximity outside of Amidon.

Our top 5 would probably be:
Capitol Hill Montessori
Amidon-Bowen Elementary School (Inbound)
Shirley Chisholm Elementary School
Payne Elementary School
AppleTree PCS - Waterfront Station[/quote]

I would put the good elementaries you're hoping to eventually get into at the top of the list (regardless of how unlikely) and round it out with Amidon and the two AppleTrees (which you'll almost certainly get into). But really think about how far you're willing to commute with your three year old. And if you're at all interested in DCPS middle school options, maybe factor that into the order of your list.

Personally I'd look at: 
- Ludlow (good test scores, feeds to Stuart-Hobson)
- Peabody (all ECE, feeds to Stuart-Hobson)
- Thomson (adjacent to Amidon-Bowen boundary, people seem to like it, feeds to John-Francis)
- Payne (good test scores, feeds to Eliot-Hine)

People seem to like Amidon-Bowen for ECE. We play on their playground on the weekends sometimes and have run into lots of friendly parents with kids at the school.

Based on DCUM, it seems like Capitol Hill Montessori is pretty disorganized and not so great after ECE. Might be worth searching for old threads on this if you're hoping for an option that will work through elementary school.[/quote]

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