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It appears SWS retains it's students, so this is mostly about the remainder of the ~30 PK3 and ~10 PK4 SWS slots that don't go to sibs each year.

We've been in the lottery at both PK3 and PK4 several times.

By the time we researched "the next Brent", figured out a safety school or two (either DCPS where ECE seemed OK or appletree), some years sibs (long shot) school, maybe a WOTP, included immersion programs, and several HRCS the 12 lottery slots filled in a hurry. If we were working over a broader geographic area the slots would have filled quicker (in this thread some of the desired AA population is described as coming from further away, so by definition has more school options to consider in the same range). Some schools that looked attractive (i.e. Brent before it closed to OOB, a HRCS, SWS) didn't make our cut some years because the odds were just too long and we used the slot where we thought we had a better chance.

It may not be safe to assume that just because someone would like to have the opportunity they actually applied (and if they applied whether they placed it high enough on their list to stay on the waitlist after they got in somewhere closer to home -- there's an art to that). I don't think DCPS publishes the demographic data on who's actually applying, but the lottery auditors probably have access. An inbounds Brent/Maury/proximity family (that can probably use private daycare for PK3 & PK4 if necessary) is in a different position using lottery slots (and perhaps more likely to apply) than a family under more pressure to escape the inbounds school and use those precious PK3/PK4 lottery slots on schools where the odds are best to land somewhere they can ride through 4th/5th. Probably not the whole story, but wouldn't be surprised if it's a factor since it was for us and 12 slots didn't end up being as many as it sounded like when the common lottery was announced.

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