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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CapCity Lower School used to have a waitlist 100+ for PK3.

This year it was single digita.[/quote]

CapCity is extremely close to my house and I toured it this year looking for PK3. After touring and looking at its performance data (especially its subgroup data!!), we chose not to include it on our list nothwithstanding its super convenient location. I was particularly concerned about how (whether?) CapCity is currently teaching math*, and it just didn't seem like a great environment to me... so I am not shocked at the short waitlist and think CC is going to have a really hard time filling their PK3 class this year with that short a waitlist to draw from when matched families opt out. We know a couple families in our neighborhood who matched with CC for PK3, but have decent waitlist numbers at other schools that they are [i]much[/i] more interested in.

*Yes, I know that doesn't necessarily matter for PK3, but why start at a school you know you are not going to want your kid to continue in after PK if you have better options in the meantime? We had enough "safety" schools on our list that we were confident we were going to get something else we would be happier with for PK3 and beyond, even if we got a crappy lottery number, and we were right on all accounts. (We did get a crappy lottery number and still got into a school that we are much more excited about than CC.)
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I have also heard their COVID response was bad. Not to get political or anything, not the point. That type of information spreading I am sure did not help them, though.

Where did you end up getting in for PK3 if you live by Cap? Sela? Whittier? [/quote]

We didn’t put Sela on our list. We toured it, but didn’t love it for our kid (it seems like a decent school, just not a good fit for my specific child). We liked Dorothy Height more than Whittier *for PK*, so we ranked it higher and that ended up being  our match.

We may switch over to Whittier (IB for us) for K and beyond though…we’ll see how things are going for my kid academically at Height. Whittier seems to have better academics overall, but the swing space situation was undetermined on the lottery due date and we like Height’s Reggio Emilia PK focus. Tbh, we felt like we had a bunch of really excellent options for PK and it was hard to choose between Height, Whittier, and a couple other schools we thought we’d have a good shot at getting into (even without a great lottery number)… but CapCity was off the table for us as soon as we toured and I feel zero regret about that.[/quote]

We toured all of those as well as Takoma and Breakthrough. We liked them all for each specific reason. We matched with Sela and have Whittier, Takoma, BT, and DH above them. If we get into one of them we may switch. I’ve heard great things about Sela so we are excited. [/quote]

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