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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have a sense of what led to the overenrollment? Is there typically a lot of attrition between K and 1st? Did something change this year?[/quote]

Last year's K classes were big (23-25), they took additional kids in the lottery, lost very few and a few more IB kids enrolled. It was pretty foreseeable, actually. What I don't know is if DCPS forced the school to offer lottery spots when there was no need or the administration wanted to. Principal Miller did tell the school that she tried to get DCPS to let her not offer lottery spots for 5th because she was worried about over-enrollment and they decreased the number but not to zero. She didn't say that she pushed back on 1st grade spots, so she probably didn't, but I don't think it was her idea and she may have had other priorities. (The 5th grade classes are big as it is, so if she hadn't gotten DCPS to drop that number, they would be over 25 too.)[/quote]

Does DCPS have set policies for how many seats schools have to offer? If so, is that documented anywhere?

I was under the impression the schools had a lot more autonomy than posts in this thread have suggested.[/quote]

I'm not sure, but in the budget process there's a whole model of each school's history of retention and typical number new IB students for each grade. Schools do have some autonomy and can offer reasons for their wish to offer or not offer more seats. And there are some schools that have physical room to grow, others that don't, so it really depends on the school. It's not like there's a citywide rule.[/quote]

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