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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PPs are all right, but I’d emphasize that PK3 being all lottery means you do have to be strategic. You’re probably not getting into any of those if you don’t have a high enough lottery number to get a PK3 seat without sibling preference at Van Ness, especially SWS and definitely not Maury. And Van Ness is great, especially for early grades and then you’d already have a community if you end up not being able to lottery for a better feeder pattern for a couple years. I’d put Van Ness first. Then Appletrees are your safeties and I’d add Amidon Bowen close to you in SW to the list, also a good school specially in the early elementary years though they also tend to not have many or any OOB seats for PK. Depends on the year and it’s been steadily becoming more popular. I personally wouldn’t waste a choice on Brent due to the swing space but like a PP said that might be one of the few “better” schools that you have a chance at, and if you don’t mind it then you’d have a nice renovated, higher performing school til middle school or whenever you give up and move to upper NW or out of DC like most others.   [/quote]

Unless OP has more than legitimate 12 options, there is no reason to be strategic.  Just list them 1-12 in true order of preference.  Take a flyer on Maury if that spot would otherwise not be used.[/quote]

The point is that Van Ness can't be the "safety" as over the years there have pretty consistently been more IB students than PK3 spots. And if her number isn't good enough to get into Van Ness IB, it's almost definitely not good enough to get into highly sought after charters or Capitol Hill elementaries OOB. So at least a couple of spots at the bottom of her list need to be set aside for true safeties, which are hard to come by in and around Capitol Hill. Probably AppleTree Waterfront and AppleTree SW.[/quote]

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