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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to track the Hill elementary school situation. A few things that stuck out to me:

Maury – K took 4 this year with Proxmity, 7 with no preference, 22 WL offers made by Oct. Last year it was 7 with Proximity and 2 with No preference with 1 WL offer made by Oct. It looks like across every grade there were significantly more WL offers by Oct.

Ludlow – K took 2 this year with sibling offered, and 13 with no preference, 6 WL offers by Oct. 
Prek3 had 11 WL offers and Prek4 had 10. Last year, K took 2 sibling attending 1 sibling offered, 3 proximity and 9 no preference. 5 grade had only 5 lottery seats and made 7 WL offers by October.

Peabody: prek3 this year only had 10 in boundary sibling matches on match day. 23 had 23, 22 had 33 and 21 had 21. This is a huge drop-off. Prek took no kids out of boundary in the previous 3 years and this year they took 17. They made 39 prek 4 WL offers by Oct. K matched 29 no preference kids this year, ten more than last year.

Brents numbers of prek3,4, and K were more consistent.

Questions this raises for me - 
Where are the Hill kids? It seems like more kids with no preference are heading to the Hill schools. Is this Hill kids swapping schools or are Hill kids headed somewhere else? Are there fewer of them?

Did the Miner / Maury situation impact families choosing Maury opening spots for out of boundary kids?

Does this mean that more Ludlow kids are staying for 5th to go to SH (that's the word in the neighborhood)?

What is going on at Peabody? The numbers indicate that older siblings are not going to Watkins therefore there is fewer sibling preference kids at Peabody? - personally this is what we did so our younger one shows up in the "In boundary" bucket on match day because their older sibling is somewhere else.

I haven't had time yet to look at JO, Miner, Payne, Tyler, but curious what takeaways other have. I can't figure out if there's a general "inboundary kids going to inboundary schools with exception of Peabody/Watkins" story here or a "fewer Hill kids" story here or what. 
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Demographic trends generally in the District show fewer children being born right now.  There was a blip up in 2010 which fits with the very competitive year last year at the high school level and then the birth rate has fallen.
https://edscape.dc.gov/page/pop-and-students-number-births-and-birth-rates#:~:text=Birth%20rates%2C%20measured%20as%20the,per%201%2C000%20population%20in%202022.
 It's also possible that during COVID fewer families with young children / about to have families chose the Hill or the District writ large.  [/quote]

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