Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the first time ever, CMI has (virtually) no waitlist for any grade. Expensive campus sinking the ship?

Not just CMI but all the other HRCS charter schools that used to have 500 plus (MV) to 200 plus (ITS and LEE) WLS for PK3 are way way down

Maybe more people enrolling at neighborhood school for PK?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the first time ever, CMI has (virtually) no waitlist for any grade. Expensive campus sinking the ship?

Not just CMI but all the other HRCS charter schools that used to have 500 plus (MV) to 200 plus (ITS and LEE) WLS for PK3 are way way down

The way I see it, this is a good thing. More people are getting into schools that they want to be at. More schools are seen as acceptable. And people aren't just listing "the usual suspects." Also, demographically, numbers of kids is down (maybe a Covid remnant?).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like MacArthur is a clear easy post-lottery add for any 9th grader who didn't match

But why spend 2 hours round trip going all the way across town to a poorly performing title 1 school when you can just go to a similar one in your neighborhood that down the street or less then 10 minutes away?

Wow...

Is it a grade transition where the target class size goes up?

Anonymous wrote:Struggling to understand our school's lottery strategy.

Last year they offered 12 seats for his grade. The grade ended up being way overenrolled compared to other grades and compared to this grade historically (about 25-40% larger). This year they offered another 2 seats for his grade, 0 seats for every other grade. I don't get it, unless maybe they're trying to open another classroom? I would be surprised if the building had the space.

What else could explain this?

Information that they have about people leaving, and data about retention from the lower grade moving up. Sometimes people notify the school pretty early that they are leaving or make it common knowledge that they're moving away.

Struggling to understand our school's lottery strategy.

Last year they offered 12 seats for his grade. The grade ended up being way overenrolled compared to other grades and compared to this grade historically (about 25-40% larger). This year they offered another 2 seats for his grade, 0 seats for every other grade. I don't get it, unless maybe they're trying to open another classroom? I would be surprised if the building had the space.

What else could explain this?

middle school waitlists way up — for both 5th and 6th

Walls matched with 190. No, the school isn’t growing. They’re projecting that some families will decline, so effectively making the first group of waitlist offers on match day. They’ve done this the past two years, matching with 190 in 2023 and 180 in 2024, and on count day the 9th grades were 153 and 152, respectively.

They waitlisted 123. For the past eight years Walls has made between 200 and 233 total offers (matches + waitlist) before school starts. If consistent with that pattern, they’ll make at least 10 offers before school starts, possibly as many as 40. For those willing to start high school in a state of uncertainty, for the last two years Walls has also made 21-27 fall offers.

Anonymous wrote:It looks like MacArthur is a clear easy post-lottery add for any 9th grader who didn't match

But why spend 2 hours round trip going all the way across town to a poorly performing title 1 school when you can just go to a similar one in your neighborhood that down the street or less then 10 minutes away?

It looks like MacArthur is a clear easy post-lottery add for any 9th grader who didn't match

Anonymous wrote:For the first time ever, CMI has (virtually) no waitlist for any grade. Expensive campus sinking the ship?

Not just CMI but all the other HRCS charter schools that used to have 500 plus (MV) to 200 plus (ITS and LEE) WLS for PK3 are way way down

For the first time ever, CMI has (virtually) no waitlist for any grade. Expensive campus sinking the ship?

sela and shining stars are in deep trouble with way less matches than seats

5th grade:

Latin Cooper +98 from last year
Latin 2nd St +72
Basis +55

Seems like WL's massively increased at the usual suspects.


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