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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just wrapped up Prek4 at Peabody and got into Maury with proxmity preference. If you look at the lottery data, this year on match day, 3 kids got into Maury K who are OOB but have siblings attending, 7 kids got in with proxmity and 2 got in with no preference. That's 12 kids who are not inbound. Last year there were NO kids who got in on match day.

For Ludlow this year for K, 2 kids matched in OOB with sibling attending, 1 OOB with sibling offered, 3 with proximity and 9 with no preference. That's 15 who are OOB. Last year there were 2 OOB with sibling offered, 0 proxmity and 5 with no preference, that's 7 who are OOB.

For Brent this year for K, 10 kids were OOB with sibling attending, 1 proxmity, and 7 no perference (18 OOB). Last year, 1 matched OOB with sibling attending, and that's it, so 1 OOB kid on match day.

Obviously not everyone went so the actual make-up of the class is different but the data tells me two things 1) kids with promixity preference are definitely choosing Maury and Ludlow over other schools this year (not necessarily Peabody maybe? I don't know if there are kids in the Miner or JO zone that have proxmity to Maury and Ludlow respectively) but I do know that of the 7 that matched at Maury, 5 are coming from Peabody (including us). 2) Something is going on with Hill K enrollment overall where there are more slots this year. It's either the schools opened more slots to avoid uncertaintly later on in the year or there are fewer K kids generally. I'm not sure. If this pattern continues though and it's easier for proxmity kids to keep getting into Maury and Ludlow, then Watkins will continue to struggle. [/quote]

Brent offered a TON of kids off of the K waitlist last year. My kid started in the early 30s and got an offer (which we didn't take). I assume they didn't take anywhere near that many kids and were just running through a bunch of people per slot... I would not be surprised at all if they learned from that experience and therefore offered more slots this year. I know that Ludlow offered more slots in an effort to more aggressively manage its waitlist this year.

I don't believe there is any area from which people have proximity preference to Ludlow other than a chunk of the Watkins zone. With JOW, the schools are too close together (about 3 blocks with the boundary slightly close to Ludlow) for anyone to be close enough to L-T but far enough from JOW.[/quote]

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