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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principal Pride offered something like 70 or 80 OOB lottery spots for 6th grade for the 2015-16 school year. In last year's lottery the number dropped to 25 spots offered in the initial lottery (lots were offered spots off of the waitlist later), so she was able to set the bar much lower with "Central's" permission. I think it's wrong to make schools commit to specific numbers of lottery spots in advance of a mid-December lottery launch. That is many months before IB/Feeder families have to submit enrollment paperwork, several months before school budgets are finalized. It seems to require a lot of reading of tea leaves. Open the lottery, don't specify how many spots are being offered by grade until the results are announced in April. That would allow principals the time to develop more accurate predictions for the following school year's enrollment.  [/quote]

But by looking at the link above it seems that her 25 number was off by a lot.  82 offers by August?!?!  Her bar actually means nothing.  It is just a random number she chooses?[/quote]

The lower lottery number (25) was because she was trying to save space for feeder school kids and I would assume that calculation was based on discussions with feeder school PTAs and parents. But not until the enrollment deadline in the spring do schools  have a clear picture of who's coming in the fall. To be sure, there was a marked increase in feeder school children that enrolled in 6th grade this year, building upon the increase from the previous year, but it wasn't the bumper crop that is anticipated for next year.

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