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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]here we go...
We live in Mt. Pleasant. Besides the list below, we also have the option of an immersion charter in a language we care about (though not a high-demand like Spanish or Chinese), which involves either a commute in the opposite direction from our jobs or a parent-organized bus. We know parents there, but there's no good feeder option.

All the options on this list involve a bus or commute, but at least they'd be in the direction of our (federal worker) jobs, and tbh in neighborhoods we'd be happy to move to someday, assuming our incomes and future interest rates agree (for now, we're golden handcuffed to MtP via a prepandemic rate). fwiw, looking at the lottery history, a few - Hyde-Addison, Murch, etc - accepted more from the wait list last year than our current wait list number. Not sure we currently know any parents at any of them. But some of them feed to Deal (forgive my ignorance, does that apply to lottery kids too?)

The closest/easiest option for us in terms of commute...also not on this list...is actually a private school which has offered very generous financial aid, where we know several parents - but of course, the annual tuition would still exceed five figures, once you add in aftercare. And this is just kid 1 of 2.

Honest questions, if anyone has thoughts: 
What is the likelihood that any of the schools on this list might come through - and if they do, are they worth the commitment over the relatively known quantities (to us) of an immersion charter that comes with a few asterisks, or a private that comes with a non-zero price tag?

And while I guess it's sort of a pointless exercise to ask "what would you do?" - since everyone has different calculations and different weights they give various factors, and also we're not including some pertinent (to us) details here - I am curious anyway!

1	Ross Elementary School		Waitlisted - #22

2	Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster) - English Dominant		Waitlisted - #47

3	Hearst Elementary School		Waitlisted - #27

4	Murch Elementary School		Waitlisted - #16

5	Stoddert Elementary School		Waitlisted - #33

6	Hyde-Addison Elementary School		Waitlisted - #23

7	Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS		Waitlisted - #22

8	Key Elementary School		Match (enrollment pending)[/quote]

What numbers are you looking at to suggest Murch took more than 16 kids off the waitlist in any grade beyond PK4? They made 9 waitlist offers in kindergarten last year, and while there have been years where they add classrooms and thus take a chunk off the waitlist, most years it's 1-2 kids, tops.[/quote]

we're on the PK4 list.[/quote]

The problem you'll be facing is that the Murch PK4 waitlist is full of kids with neighborhood preference. They took a few OOB kids off the PK4 waitlist this year but most years they don't take any.[/quote]

Your WL number might also increase based on siblings enrolling or getting off the waitlist and moving up with sibling preference.  A few years ago we thought for sure we’d get into a popular school because we were #8 on the waitlist.  I think our number increased to 13 or 14 at one point and we never got in.[/quote]

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