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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PK3

1	Washington Yu Ying PCS		 - #11	
2	Bancroft Elementary School - English Dominant	 - #95	
3	Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - J.F. Cook Campus - #33	
4	Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS - Kingsbury	- #36	
5	Brent Elementary School	 - #60	
6	Peabody Elementary School - #50	
7	Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS		Enrolled

Don't expect we have a chance anywhere other than Yu Ying. Happy our #7 choice, Inspired, somehow worked. We live close to Inspired in Bloomingdale, but thought there wasn't any in-boundary preference. [/quote]

Jumped from #11 to #4 at Yu Ying yesterday. Now we really have our hopes up. Would be heartbreaking if we don't make it now. [/quote]

Just an idea - email the registrar and say you’re 4th and really want to go and ask what to expect?[/quote]

Do schools also have some leeway with the number of kids in each class?  I.e. do spots only open up if someone uinenrolls or could a school add a few kids to a class?[/quote]

It depends.  Preschool class sizes are set by the adult-child ratio.  [b]But there are two seats reserved for Early Stages placements that don't happen until October[/b], and can be used if there is a compelling reason (e.g., twins puts the school one kid over their target number but they are confident someone will leave before October because that is past experience.  After preschool the class sizes can be bigger, schools have a target number but can go over and many build in an assumption of some attrition in August and September as waitlists move. There are also room physical capacity limits and fire caps for the building.  [/quote]

What does this mean?  I have twins that are matched at different schools and am getting a little antsy that there has been no movement on either waitlist (they are #1 on each other's waitlist).  Will a school maybe let a twin in if there is no movement?  What does the two spaces reserved for Early Stages mean?  They will take from a different pool of kids rather than the waitlist??[/quote]

I am the twin parent PP and related this might sound insensitive as I just looked up Early Stages and realize it is for kids who might need more assistance etc/ SN.  Just moved to DC with rising PK4 twins so was not aware.  But am still curious if that means that kids might be pulled in from Early Stages over kids on the lottery and the schools won't know until October if they are using those spots?  We would love to have our twins at the same school and trying to temper expectations [/quote]

Twin parent, 99% chance things will work out fine.  Waitlists move at almost every school.

How to handle enrollment and Early Stages spots is up to each school's principal so there is no set policy.  My experience was from being a PTA leader at a school that let in all of its in-boundary PK3 and PK4 applicants on the assumption that not all would attend.  But they did end up with a few kids too many in August.  This was still within the adult-child ratio because the Early Stages seats had not yet been filled (since they only get filled if an eligible child is enrolled).  So the school was able to use Early Stages spots for a few weeks and then through attrition those spots became available for Early Stages again.  A school that did not have the same historical pattern or attrition might not have been allowed to do that.  It was a way of temporarily coping with the unexpected.[/quote]

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