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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is what is known about the DCPS lottery:

1) Unless you are in-bounds, there is no use putting Ross, Brent, or any of the JKLMs on your PK3/PK4 list. None. Those schools haven't admitted OOB 3yos in years.

2) Generally, ranking in your true order of preference is the best way to make your list, unless your true order of preference includes any of the schools mentioned in #1.

3) The in-demand charters will also have insanely long waitlists for a very limited number of seats. However, someone always gets in.

4) DCPS schools in wards 1, 2, and 4 are likely to fill all their PK3 seats with in-bounds children. Even schools that were considered safety schools 3 years ago have waitlists this year. Some of those waitlists include in-bounds children.

5) Consider your neighborhood school, no matter where you live. It may be your only option.[/quote]

+1 this is a good depiction of what's going on

I also think it's why the school landscape in wards 1, 2, and 4 are changing little by little.[/quote]

I think more of ward 6 is experiencing what you have in your #4 than many realize (in part because DCPS hasn't released the stats)
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With the exception of Van Ness and maybe A-B, I doubt other Ward 6 elementary schools are taking OOB students. Even the VN WL jumped from like 30 to 120. So basically in half of the Wards in the city, if you are locked out of your IB school (some who let in only half of their IB population), you are locked out of the system.

By why would parents want to know that?[/quote]

I just want to remind everyone that you can place your kid in your IB by right at Kindergarten, so we're not shut out of the system altogether.[/quote]

Yes - just like in Montgomery, Arlington or Fairfax County. [/quote]

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