You’ll most likely get into Tyler/MV/Stokes

OP here-

Thank you for all the feedback! Stokes EE is pretty much my last choice. The child who currently attends is my stepchild- so I didn’t really choose that school in the first place. I have not been satisfied enough with their upper level academic track record to send my own child there- even though it would make the daily commute easier. It is worth the sacrifice to ensure that my children are receiving the best education they can.

As for DCI, I know that only the feeder schools have a chance at getting a slot and I’m not counting on that for my pk3 child at all. It’s honestly too far into the future to consider that in my opinion with all of the possible changes. All I was saying is that there is a chance that my stokes student may be attending there and therefore I would be driving uptown anyways.

Depending on where we land for next year and how happy we are with that- we may lottery for oyster pk4.

You can estimate your chances using the past year data on MySchool. I would myself think somewhat hard about the commute in the ranking because it can be a big QOL factor. (Middle school is still 8 years away for the younger child. It is possible some things change in that time. The DME is proposing to add a Spanish middle school track at Jefferson which may or may not be a reasonably viable and much closer option than DCI 7+ years from now.)

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like OP wants to 1) send her older child to DCI and 2) cut ties with Stokes EE. That makes sense.

OP, I don't think you can count on sibling preference to pull your younger DC into DCI on the Spanish track if your younger DC doesn't attend a feeder elementary. So I would suggest you prioritize getting younger DC into a DCI feeder-- ideally one with a guarantee, so not Stokes or Mundo.

DCB has expanded. Yu Ying plans to expand as well. The only one with DCI guaranteed is probably LAMB.

LAMB doesn’t have a guarantee. LAMB expanded also to the South Dakota location. They just consolidated both campuses now into one recently.

Right, but they have a lot of attrition in upper elementary and don’t backfill so that should help.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like OP wants to 1) send her older child to DCI and 2) cut ties with Stokes EE. That makes sense.

OP, I don't think you can count on sibling preference to pull your younger DC into DCI on the Spanish track if your younger DC doesn't attend a feeder elementary. So I would suggest you prioritize getting younger DC into a DCI feeder-- ideally one with a guarantee, so not Stokes or Mundo.

DCB has expanded. Yu Ying plans to expand as well. The only one with DCI guaranteed is probably LAMB.

LAMB doesn’t have a guarantee. LAMB expanded also to the South Dakota location. They just consolidated both campuses now into one recently.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like OP wants to 1) send her older child to DCI and 2) cut ties with Stokes EE. That makes sense.

OP, I don't think you can count on sibling preference to pull your younger DC into DCI on the Spanish track if your younger DC doesn't attend a feeder elementary. So I would suggest you prioritize getting younger DC into a DCI feeder-- ideally one with a guarantee, so not Stokes or Mundo.

DCB has expanded. Yu Ying plans to expand as well. The only one with DCI guaranteed is probably LAMB.

Correct, the only school that has an effective guarantee is LAMB, since they don't backfill and project the fifth grade classes won't exceed the number of DCI seats after attrition. Though MV has so many empty seats in upper grades, that they may end up with a functional guarantee as well. If they can't backfill enough, then there will be enough DCI seats for everyone who's still around. Also could end up a good strategy for DCPS bilingual kids that don't feed into JR - switch to MV for fifth, then continue to DCI. Sounds like a rocky year, but DC families put up with a lot for school choice.

OP, definitely lottery for Oyster next year. It's about 50/50 odds for OOB Spanish dominant kids in pre-K4, so worth a shot.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like OP wants to 1) send her older child to DCI and 2) cut ties with Stokes EE. That makes sense.

OP, I don't think you can count on sibling preference to pull your younger DC into DCI on the Spanish track if your younger DC doesn't attend a feeder elementary. So I would suggest you prioritize getting younger DC into a DCI feeder-- ideally one with a guarantee, so not Stokes or Mundo.

DCB has expanded. Yu Ying plans to expand as well. The only one with DCI guaranteed is probably LAMB.

It seems like OP wants to 1) send her older child to DCI and 2) cut ties with Stokes EE. That makes sense.

OP, I don't think you can count on sibling preference to pull your younger DC into DCI on the Spanish track if your younger DC doesn't attend a feeder elementary. So I would suggest you prioritize getting younger DC into a DCI feeder-- ideally one with a guarantee, so not Stokes or Mundo.

The list makes no sense. If you want DCI then you need to rank DCI feeders at the top of the list. Why wouldn’t you just send your second kid to stokes with the first kid?

I think you'll get into Tyler, and the location makes the most sense. But I agree with the PPs above who say that the commute with DCI would be miserable.

Oyster does not offer PK3.

I think you will get into Tyler as Spanish dominant OOB and its probably a lot closer than most of the other schools.

Anonymous wrote:This list confuses me to the extent you haven’t more highly ranked the school your older child currently attends and the rest of the DCI feeders…
Why wouldn’t you want your younger child at the same school as your older child for the next two years? And why wouldn’t you at least want your younger child to go to a DCI feeder if your older child will be at DCI in the future? In the future, there will likely only be room in the DCI Spanish track for the feeder schools and the sibling preference does not trump the feeder preference.
The schools you have ranked the highest don’t have as good of a middle/high school feed as DCI and would cause you to go way out of your way if your oldest is not going to be at DCI until 2 years from now…

+1

This list makes no sense to me.

Agree with PP, and also wonder why you didn't rank Oyster?

Are you also going to lottery for your older kid? I could see ranking Bancroft and Oyster high for both kids and see if one pulls the other in. But I'd put Stoke EE right below it.

Congress Heights to Marie Reed to DCI sounds like a miserable drive each day.

This list confuses me to the extent you haven’t more highly ranked the school your older child currently attends and the rest of the DCI feeders…
Why wouldn’t you want your younger child at the same school as your older child for the next two years? And why wouldn’t you at least want your younger child to go to a DCI feeder if your older child will be at DCI in the future? In the future, there will likely only be room in the DCI Spanish track for the feeder schools and the sibling preference does not trump the feeder preference.
The schools you have ranked the highest don’t have as good of a middle/high school feed as DCI and would cause you to go way out of your way if your oldest is not going to be at DCI until 2 years from now…

I’m looking for a pk3 spot for SY 24-25. What are my chances getting into these schools in the city? I’m commuting from congress heights in SE. My child has a sibling preference at Stokes EE Spanish. Chances are high that we will be driving to DCI anyways for middle and high school for our current stokes student in the next 2 years. So I’m not totally opposed to uptown schools.

1) Marie Reed DL - Spanish dominant
2) Tyler/Chisholm- Spanish dominant
3) Bruce Monroe- Spanish dominant
4) Bancroft- Spanish dominant
5) Cleveland dl- Spanish dominant
6) LAMB
7) Powell- Spanish dominant
8) MV cook
9) stokes EE Spanish *sibling preference*
10) global citizens EE Spanish