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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had crazy lottery luck for K and got into a highly sought-after, mostly white, super high achieving elementary school I didn't think we had any shot at.

We are currently happy at our super diverse, hidden gem in-bound, which we absolutely love, but which has struggled with enrollment. It gets through its whole wait list every year, for every grade, except maybe PreK-3. Our in bound has low test scores overall, though I think it outperforms its demographics. We had planned to stay through 5th and lotteried just for the heck of it (mostly to appease my husband who hates our school's admittedly crap facilities, which are def the worst thing about our school.) Both schools have same feeder middle/high.

I am currently doing research on Highly Sought After to see if it's worth the longer commute/lack of diversity. My friends at Hidden Gem say that if I am even remotely considering Highly Sought After I should go ahead and enroll there. Their Argument: If we change our minds, or try it and decide it's not for us, Hidden Gem has to take us back, cause we're K and in boundary. Plus, unless something crazy happens there will be more than enough room in K for us at Hidden Gem, at any point in the school year.

We will almost certainly never lottery back into Highly Sought After - this is our one shot to try a school like it without moving. It is certainly better resourced than Hidden Gem.

So hive mind...are my friends right? Does our in bound have to take us back no matter what? [/quote]

Your friends are right, because there is a lot of potential upside to moving to a better school, and no potential downside bc you can just go back to your IB whenever you want.

If you stay, the potential downside is that you don't like the school, but then you are stuck.[/quote]

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