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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like more YY kids are tracking to DCI.

The trend is clear.  There will be no seats available to non-feeder kids in 1-2 years in any track.  In 2 years, the class coming in from Stokes is the expansion class so there will be no more French either which is the only track with non-preference this year.

As PP said above, DCI has a very high retention rate and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.  In fact, I predict that rate will increase.[/quote]

DCI retention rate is &gt; 90%[/quote]

Because the choice for most feeder families is DCI or move/private. People take feeder school seats, and others backfill open upper elementary seats, to escape Brookland Middle or MacFarland. And as housing prices continue to rise, many more families will be scrambling for a seat that enables them to stay in their current EOTP house. Families in expansion grades that are banking on attrition "guaranteeing" them a DCI seat seem oblivious to this phenomenon. [/quote]

Families in DCI feeders are not banking on attrition to get seats.  The grades in the expansion years have 60% chance if all kids track to DCI.  But some won’t so that chance goes up to 70-80%.  That’s a hell of a lot better than 0% chance of their kids going to their IB middle school.

Families not in DCI feeders will have 0% chance of getting into DCI.

That’s a huge spread and anyone would take that 60-80% chance vs 0.

Now if DCI expands then it would be 100% for feeder kids.  Although there are talks, that is not a definite. [/quote]

You think all of those families will finish out fifth grade at their feeder and then leave for sixth grade elsewhere? Or leave in fifth for Latin or Basis? I have no idea what number of families would need to pull out between fifth and sixth to bump the odds up 20%, but I’m skeptical there are that many families that are IB for Deal and commuting to MV or Stokes every day…[/quote]

Some of them will, it's hard to say how many. But I definitely know kids who are leaving YY and MV for Latin and Basis, or did last year. And I definitely know kids who go to YY but are IB for Deal or Hardy so they aren't too stressed about it either way.[/quote]

Then those fifth grade seats will be filled by bilingual families who also struck out at Latin and Basis. [/quote]

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