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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If blue is 2R, I would definitely not switch and especially not just for this year. There is so much turmoil there right now that this would be the worst year to try it out IMO.

2nd grade is a much more favorable time to try to lottery than 1st. I'd wait. Lots of pretty highly regarded DCPSes start having way more room then.[/quote]

Why do the “highly regarded DCPSes” have more room after second? [/quote]

Because the allowable class size goes up.[/quote]

It's also usually a much smaller pool of families vying for spots. Fewer families are willing to change schools at 2nd or 3rd grade than for K or 1st. So waitlists are often shorter, and move faster.

Also some well-regarded DCPS schools have a decent amount of attrition that is unrelated to people leaving for better schools. Schools on the Hill and near the embassies, for instance, just have more transient communities due to jobs. So you have years where there are suddenly 10 spots open in the 2nd grade cohort and they'll exhaust the waitlist of 25 to fill them. This is especially true on the Hill where people are less confident about MS feeds, because you see fewer people trying to lottery in at 2nd/3rd/4th than you do for schools that feed into Deal or Hardy, where a huge part of the draw is the feed.[/quote]

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