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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Takoma also didn’t make any offers for 1st, 2nd or 5th grade and only opened 4-7 lottery seats for each of those grades so it isn’t just prek.[/quote]

It blew through the entire waitlist in third grade, though--that was a surprise to us. My kid had a very bad lottery number (last spot on each waitlist) and we still were offered a place. It just goes to show that this isn't a predictable process.[/quote]

That’s likely because many families left after 2nd, typical of poorly performing schools when the achievement gap gets real[/quote]

Or because they want to secure a middle school pathway. I know more Takoma families that move to DCI feeders in middle and upper elementary because it’s walkable and better than the feeders, despite being perfectly happy with Takoma itself.[/quote]

First of all, [b]if families are happy with elementary, they would stay till upper elementary like 4th which is typical of the schools in Capitol Hill, not leave so early.
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Second of all, this must be a troll because many families would not move their kid to a language immersion school in 3rd and up with no language background.  That would be a disaster and their kid would not understand 1/2 the instruction taught in the language.[/quote]

False. People leave when they get a spot in a more desirable feeder. For capitol hill, basis is that option and starts at 5th so people leave then. Closer to dci feeders, people leave sooner to get the ms/hs they want. [/quote]

100%. When people leave is mostly based on when the more desirable feeder starts. As anyone EOTP knows, you have to take the lottery luck when it strikes because it may not strike again. That's fifth on the Hill, so people who are lotterying for a feeder pattern have nowhere to shuffle to until then. For Wards 4 and 5, it's not DCI or Deal themselves, it's their feeders which pull kids every year. We loved our EOTP DCPS and would have happily stayed through fourth or fifth if we knew we could get a seat in fifth or sixth. But we got a third grade OOB spot at a Ward 3 school, so that's when we moved. Not because we didn't want to do third or fourth at our current school, but because we didn't want to take the risk. [/quote]

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