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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is misleading because it's a mix of DCPS boundary schools (with IB preference for PK), charters (all lottery), and and DCPS all city (also all lottery).

Mixing schools like Bancroft, Hyde-Addison, Marie Reed, and Maury in with schools like School Within School, Stokes, or DC Bilingual based on applicant to spot ratio gives wrong impressions about all these schools.

If you are IB for any of those DCPS schools, your chances of getting a PK3 spot are way higher than the the applicant to spot ration would indicate. That's because if you are OOB for any of those schools, your chances of getting a spot are zero or close to zero. Many people will throw schools like that on their lottery list just in case, because you get 12 slots and if you live nearby, who knows, maybe it's a weird year and they have fewer than expect IB and sibling applicants. So the applicant to spot ratio is going to be too high for IB families and way too low for OOB families.

Whereas charters and all-city schools that don't have boundary preferences can be more accurately described by the applicant to spot ratio. Though it still ignores sibling preference. With sibling preference, many families would be all but guaranteed a spot at a school like SWS or Stokes, because the siblings don't even have to compete with IB kids -- they jump all the way to the front of the line. And the number of siblings on any given applicant list for these schools can greatly reduce the odds of a family with no sibling preference getting a spot -- there are charters where more than half of all available spots in a class went to siblings some years. So non-siblings are actually competing for a much smaller number of spots.

There are also schools where a lot of people throw them on a lottery list but are not actually hard to get into. They are like safeties. Two Rivers (both 4th and Young get used this way at this point). But their yield is low and they will go deep into their waitlists.[/quote]

+1.  Very true.

The hardest to get into list is useless because OP is including schools with IB preference.  Those families will get in and it’s 100% and not hard at all. [/quote]

I think most of those schools do end up leaving IB students on the waitlist for PK3. More likely to get a spot by PK4.[/quote]

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