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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]K seems to be a weird grade across the city. Yes, it's an expansion year at many places, but there just don't seem to be enough kids. I wonder if it's a small class for pandemic-related reasons? For instance, on the Hill, Brent made 58 offers![/quote]

We have a K kid and it really varies. Anecdotally, I think a lot of families on the Hill moved and that impacted K lists at Brent and L-T (not sure about Maury). Like we just know a ton of families with K kids who left altogether. Lots of reasons, some related to the pandemic but some not. Honestly, some of it was just related to real estate decisions and people realizing that it was a make or break year for that (better to move before K than wait, plus lots of different pressures to sell or buy depending on your situation).

But we also sat on waitlists for several charters who expand their rosters a lot in K but just didn't move at all. We thought for sure we'd get a spot at ITS but after some movement in early August it's ground to a halt and now we probably won't. It really just depends.[/quote]

Interesting. In my kid's K class at L-T, 17 of the 18 kids are back from PK4, so there doesn't seem to have been a ton of recent loss at least anecdotally.[/quote]

That's surprising because we had a number in the low teens and wound up turning down an offered spot there back in June. Perhaps one of the other PK4 classes had more attrition? I was very surprised to get the offer and had we not been happy somewhere else at that point we would have jumped on it.[/quote]

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