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At the moment, DCPS handles the Oyster-Adams lottery. Oyster-Adams is a "school of right," which means that if you live within boundary, your kids enroll there no matter your language dominance. DCPS does not assign lottery numbers based on a balance of Spanish or English speakers.
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Not correct at all.  Lottery IS based on language dominace and the school already has this control.  Puzzlingly, they choose to admit/allow about 20% English OOB kids (many as grandfathered siblings of people who move OOB), then complain about the language balance being too English in primary.

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But that's only for PK4, right?  There aren't really any lottery seats available in K and up, as far as I can tell, except for maybe 1 or 2 a year.

So they do have some control of PK4 admissions, and can direct Spanish speaking kids there, but very little after that.[/quote]

[b]No[/b].  Actually only about 35% of OA is in-boundary (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/oyster-adams+bilingual+school).  This vairies a bit by grade - and is it's higher in younger grades and lower in older grades.  OA runs two lotteries - one for Spanish speaking families and one for English speaking families.  To maintain language ballance the lottery accepts almost exclusively Spanish speaking families (which make up 50% of the school population). [/quote]

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