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One more https://ms-dc.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/2016-lottery-unique-applicants-on-wls-by-grade.pdf[/quote]

Thank you for posting this list. I'm realizing that a huge number of students don't get in anywhere for PK. DC clearly needs more school options - even though the number of slots for students has been rising rapidly, the number of students seems to be rising even more rapidly. I wonder what the prospects are for:
1) WOTP schools to offer PK3 (Potentially parents who would aspire to move to a WOTP neighborhood eventually stay EOTP until their children are older to have an opportunity for PK3)
2) A guaranteed slot for PK3 at neighborhood schools instead of starting at kindergarten (some parents are perhaps choosing the lottery instead of their in-bounds school because of the lack of guarantee?)
3) Either additional schools open or existing schools expand their programs

Interested what people think of this.

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Very unlikely. PK3 and PK4 is not a compulsory year in DC for good reason.

However, in the areas of most need (about 1 dozen Title 1 or likely Title I schools)  they have now made PK3 and PK4 guaranteed to all IB students who enter Round 1 of lottery and list that school first.

The problem is parents are acting like they have a RIGHT to PK3 and PK4. And they don't.

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