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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would say DCI is becoming the Deal middle school EOTP although it’s not part of DCPS.

It has a critical mass of grade level and above grade level kids.  It’s a big enough school but not too big, with the plus that it doesn’t have the overcrowding issue like Deal.  It has great facilities, and a large offering of sports, clubs, and extracurriculars like Deal.  It has an IB curriculum like Deal.

Your choices for middle schools EOTP are DCI, Latin, and Basis.  We toured Latin and Basis and the facilities are sadly lacking and so are the sports, clubs, and extracurriculars.  We are not even going to play the lottery for Latin or Basis although we have a high performing kid.  I’m sure many feeder families like us have made similar decisions.

Of the 3 middle schools above, DCI is most similar to your typical suburban middle school with good academics, facilities, sports, and extracurriculars.  We had that experience, and it’s what we want for our DS.

DCI has passed the point now where they have buy in from middle and UMC families.  And as the overwhelming majority of families track to DCI, the cohort of kids will become stronger and stronger, because the cohort coming up the feeder schools are stronger than what they were just 3 or 5 years ago.

Non-feeder kids won’t have any chance.  
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Hello Booster. Do you mean that the Spanish feeders will be allowed to consume the extra French seats? [/quote]

I’m not a booster.  What above is not true about my post?  We looked hard at Latin and Basis and passed.

As to your question, I don’t know.  But what is stopping the school from doing that when the expansion years hit.  [/quote]

I was under the impression that they have to offer some non-feeder seats per their charter agreement. But you seem to be awfully positive about it-- funny because Mundo continues to be a mess, Stokes continues to lag academically, and Latin and BASIS continue to appeal to feeder families within my social circle.[/quote]

Thank you for sharing your anecdata. But Let’s talk about data.

These data show that kids from the feeders are going to DCI:

Here's 5th grade enrollment audit data from this year-- it's from October so it's unclear that all of those kids were still attending their school at lottery time.

YY-52, looks like all kids matched with DCI. 
Stokes has 43 kids total, not broken down between Spanish and French. A total of 35 Stokes 5th graders matched at DCI, so that's 8 unaccounted for. 
DCB, 47 5th graders. Yet only 43 seats at DCI were offered, I wonder why. 
LAMB, 49 5th graders, only 46 seats offered at DCI, wonder why. 
Mundo, 68 5th graders. Only 66 DCI seats were offered.

These data show how many kids are in each feeder: https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/page_content/attachments/Audit.xlsx

The two DCI feeders that you mentioned have around 1250+ students total. A lot of families are choosing DCI feeders + DCI, no mater what your “social circle” tells you.

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I take it you’re not the same booster as the “anyone would take those odds because families leave and open up more spaces for meeee”[/quote]

No, I am a DP, I am sorry to disappoint you. I am just someone that loves data. [/quote]

Lol of course you’re not. Sorry the sarcasm didn’t convey.[/quote]

As you can see from the audit data a lot of families are taking those odds.[/quote]

Yes that’s exactly the point. Sorry though, something has gotten lost in translation and it’s probably best not to keep going in circles on this point. [/quote]

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