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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question was not about whether families should do it (rent an apartment and live there July through December before moving back to the house they own in Shaw or Logan Circle or Michigan Park), but if people know of any families who have done it.  We talk about it all the time on DCUM as something you can or shouldn't do.  But does anyone ever do it?

I know a lot of lottery families and a lot of families that move from one JKML boundary to another and stay at their previous school. And I know someone using a grandparent's address. But no one I know falls into this category. Maybe brief renters tell parents they lotteried?  Or maybe there's always an easier, better plan b?

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I think people talk about it all the time and rarely do it because the current state of schools in DC is that there is no guarantee your kid will get a decent high school, but the odds are high. Being able to say, “if all else fails, we’ll rent an apartment inbounds for JR” makes people more comfortable waiting out the application/lottery process and/or taking a chance on a school like MacArthur. But most of the time things work out, so very few people wind up pulling that rip cord. [/quote]

Things absolutely do not work out “most of the time.”

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But they do. Most (ie, 62% of) rising 9th graders who only apply to one high school match with that high school, and the odds go up for students who list multiple high schools. [/quote]

Oh come on. OP and the people worried about backups are not just applying to their IB HS and happy with it. The fact is, if you get to 8th grade and don’t consider the IB HS an option, then it is a pretty precarious situation. We always knew we would be staring this down, but still sucks to be living it. [/quote]

Do you even live in DC? No one applies to their IB high school. That’s not how it works here. [/quote]

Obviously I meant the zoned HS. I don’t know where you got that quote but it is not possibly true that 62% of applicants to application HSs get their first choice. [/quote]

You aren’t helping yourself. In this context an IB high school is a zoned (“in bounds”) high school. And while some other cities make 9th graders apply or lottery even for their zoned schools, in DC it’s actually impossible to apply or lottery for your zoned school. You just enroll.

The stat that most rising 9th graders who list one school in the application/lottery system match with that school comes from My School itself.

https://www.myschooldc.org/sites/default/files/dc/sites/myschooldc/page/attachments/SY25_26_Match_Grade_School_Selections.pdf

As you can see from that data, over 90% of students who list four or more high schools match with one. And that’s the reality. There is no guarantee that your kid will get into the perfect school, but the odds of getting into a decent high school are high. That’s why people stick around through the process, and why they mutter about renting an apartment in JR “if all else fails,” but rarely do it, because all else rarely fails. [/quote]

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