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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]for 5th grade:

Two Rivers
Inspired Teaching
SWS
Bridges
Shining Stars
Hyde-Addison
Brent
Ross
Creative Minds
Cap City
Latin
SWW at F-S

We're at an EOTP school now that our kid really dislikes, but we aren't able to move out of DC for one more year. After that, we'd be happy to stay in the District or to move to the suburbs depending on the lottery. She has some special needs, and is on the immature side. She's a pretty average student and BASIS would not be a good fit.[/quote]

This list seems random too.  Montessori or Latin? Middle only versus HS track? Try to look more long term if you can. Time flies by.[/quote]

We're willing to move for middle school, so going through 8th or 12th is a plus but not a requirement. We're balancing some competing things that we/our kid would like: convenient commute to either our house or jobs, path past 5th grade, no uniform, decent academics, outdoor space and time, racial diversity within the upper grades, small school/classes, special ed services, having friends there, and more. No one school has all of that. So it is a pretty unusual list, but one where each school has something better than our kid's current school and we are optimistic about getting in someplace.[/quote]

Personally I would choose schools that had a HS track over ones that don't.  Because Latin has such a small number of kids admitted each year for 5th (90) and almost half those go to siblings with preference usually, I would put that as my number one.  That way if I didn't get it I would at least be waitlisted.  Putting it so low will get you knocked out immediately if you don't get placed there initially.  Just a thought.[/quote]
I don't think you really understand how the lottery works. If you don't get placed there immediately it doesn't knock you out per se, there are other things that have to line up. [/quote]

I think PP was saying that the family of the rising 5th grader would be matched at a school they ranked higher than Latin, so they wouldn't end up with a waitlist spot at Latin. Which of course is not a problem, since it means they got matched with a school that they prefer. [/quote]

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