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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to provide a contrast, here is a thumbnail of our experience. We bought a house we loved with a neighborhood school that was not acceptable to us and figured that we would work it out when it happened. Here's where we wound up for PS-3.

Charter schools - applied to 14 different. The only ones we got into were Bethune and Appletree Oklahoma Ave. Best lottery number otherwise was 103.

DCPS - Applied to the second-tier CH schools, (didn't even try for Maury, Brent, Logan, or Tyler SI).  The only one we got into was J.O. Wilson and our best lottery number was in the 30's at Miner. We are okay with sending our child to J.O. through PK-4 for sure, but will definitely be trying to lottery out ASAP. We also didn't max out our budget, so we can afford to go private or move if we need to.

So, yeah, if I was a planner and had $800K to spend, I would definitely try to get a house where I liked the in-bounds school. For every family that loves their charter or got lucky in the lottery, there are lots of families like us scrambling and patching stuff together.

Just another experience. Good luck.
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... I would guess that by K, you will have something a little more satisfactory.  I never expected to have a public PreS or PreK option and had planned to pay for these programs.  It was a nice surprise that we wound up not having to pay for PreK for DC #1 and PreS/PreK for DC #2.[/quote]

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