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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HD Cooke - have friends who are happy with the preschool

Appletree Columbia Heights

Thomson or Cleveland might be worth a slot, if you have them to spare.

Where do you work?  You could also put down Capital Hill Montessori at Logan, if one parent works on or near the Hill/Union Station[/quote]
Thomson's open house wasn't great. The kids basically have recess in a parking garage and for a 3 year old the whole point of life is to play outside. We're going to the Cleveland open house next week. Appletree is out per my comment above. We work in Dupont and Chinatown so the hill unfortunately doesn't work.

But thanks very much, will look into HD Cooke further![/quote]

You understand that this is very common for city schools.  Playgrounds on the roof top, crossing major roads to the public playground etc.  
If you live in DuPont, and not willing to go off of a small range you do not have many options.

FYI - I do not think Cooke is a Safety.  I think your best shot is SWW FS since the IB zone is pretty small (WRT residential living with children)[/quote]

NP here. So do you think SWW FS is worth a spot on the list as a safety if you aren't IB?[/quote]

It's worth a spot, unless you've got all 12 filled, in that it's not pointless, but it's not a sure thing.  An IB family was initially waitlisted last year.  I think there were several sibling enrolleds (not IB) after that family on the waitlist.  I don't know how many families they ultimately went through, I'd guess someone (several someones?) out of bounds got in (one or more of the sibling enrolleds certainly did), but it wasn't a ton of spots. [/quote]

The SWWFS boundary is smaller that it used to be (used to overlap with Ross and OA and Thomson), so there should be a few OOBs in the first round and more after things settle down.

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Yes, but it had already shrunk before last year's results (which were based on new boundaries) - which are the ones posted above.  So that doesn't really change anything...[/quote]

Ok, please help me understand the data on this page:

http://dcps.dc.gov/page/my-school-dc-lottery

It looks like 13 with no preference got in in round 1 for PK3 at SWWFS? I realize I might be reading this wrong.[/quote]

I am looking at SWW@FS for PK3. What I am seeing is that they offered 35 seats in the lottery. 1 went to an in bounds kid with a sibling enrolled and the other 34 went to in bounds kids. I'm not sure where you're getting 13? Are you sure you're looking at the right grade?[/quote]

I had the right grade and school selected, but it doesn't seem to have switched to the right school. I now see the data you see, but only after scrolling down to the SY14-15 data and also selecting grade and school there. That's when the SY15-16 data also changed.

Is there any way to know how many got in in round 2, or by the end of the summer? The way round 1 looks, I guess I will take them off my list, seems like a waste of a spot.[/quote]

If they filled all their seats in Round 1, the only way a Round 2 person got in is if they had more preferences than all the Round 1 people already on the wait list, or if all those people got in.

You could put them on your list, but honestly, it's probably a waste of a spot. If you have open spots, you can list it, and maybe you will get outrageously lucky and the lists will move, but it's not likely.

Realistically, if you go through the schools, you will see that this has been the case with a lot of them. The concept of "safety" schools is really kind of outdated, at least the idea that there are many in NW. Many schools had in bounds 3 year olds on their waitlists, and almost none of them admitted anyone with no preference at all.[/quote]

Well, now I'm not trusting what I'm seeing on the linked site anymore... Do I see it right if it shows Seaton accepted 13 OOB without preference? I thought Seaton was almost impossible OOB as well.[/quote]

No, I think that's correct. Seaton got a big enrollment boost that year, as you can see. It was the popular "hidden gem" school the year before, which resulted in people ranking it and doubling the number of applications. As for the availability of spaces, I think it's really hard to predict this year. We're at HD Cooke and we had zero spaces for out of bounds kids in PK3 last year. There are a lot of families in our neighborhood with young kids who are at least willing to give it a try, which may or may not remain the case.

Best of luck, PP. I wouldn't trade back to the lottery for the world.[/quote]

Seaton is more popular than it was before.  Deservedly so-- great principle, and some great parents are very involved.  Also, the baby boom of neighborhood kids is entering K, so that means more siblings in PK3.[/quote]

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