Anonymous
08/20/2025 18:23
Subject: Late DC school enrollment
Those options are likely fine for 8th. The DCPS schools are a little bit larger than the charters - likely to have more afterschool sports and clubs. If you live in the SW, that is probably a plus for Jefferson. If you live in Capitol Hill, EH might be closer or just as easy to easier to get to. Start researching high schools options because that will come very fast.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 18:05
Subject: Late DC school enrollment
These are great numbers… I’d do Hines! I would also look at Truth for middle… it would feed right into the high school and give you some longevity.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 17:53
Subject: Late DC school enrollment
My oldest graduated from Jefferson and my next will be starting this year. We had a very positive experience at the school and my oldest now attends one of the applicaiton high schools along with many friends.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 17:47
Subject: Late DC school enrollment
You could do a lot worse than Eliot-Hine and that seems likely to work out!
Anonymous
08/20/2025 17:44
Subject: Late DC school enrollment
Anonymous wrote:Hello! I was born and raised in DC. I moved to Waldorf when I got married many years ago but always worked in DC still. Now, I’m getting a divorce & it’s clear he’s not helping as much with school pickup and drops off. The commute has been draining. My grandmother recently passed & left her townhouse in SW to me (a blessing!) and I just moved in.
I’m not up-to-date on DC schools anymore. My daughter attended Rocketship from PreK to 1st grade, then we left. She’s now going to 8th grade. I don’t know which schools are good or bad. I know since I’m late to registration. It’s slim pickings now.
My waitlist is as follows:
Browne EC #8
Eliot-Hine #2
Stuart-Hodson #34 (not optimistic)
Friendship Blow-Pierce #5
Friendship Chamberlin #7
Boundary School is Jefferson Middle
I saw BASIS mentioned a lot on here, but I didn’t bother because I’m SURE we won’t get past that waitlist this late in.
Are these good schools? Chances of being taken off waitlist?
Anonymous
08/20/2025 17:42
Subject: Late DC school enrollment
Hello! I was born and raised in DC but moved to Waldorf when I got married many years ago. Now, I’m getting a divorce & it’s clear he’s not helping as much with school pickup and drops off. The commute has been draining. My grandmother recently passed & left her house to me and I just moved in.
I’m not up-to-date on DC schools anymore. My daughter attended Rocketship from PreK to 1st grade, then we left. She’s now going to 8th grade. I don’t know which schools are good or bad. I know since I’m late to registration. It’s slim pickings now.
My waitlist is as follows:
Browne EC #8
Eliot-Hine #2
Stuart-Hodson #34 (not optimistic)
Friendship Blow-Pierce #5
Friendship Chamberlin #7
Boundary School is Jefferson Middle
I did see BASIS a lot on here, I didn’t bother because I’m SURE we won’t get past that waitlist this late in.
Are these good schools? Chances of being taken off waitlist?
I’m not up-to-date on DC schools anymore. My daughter attended Rocketship from PreK to 1st grade, then we left. She’s now going to 8th grade. I don’t know which schools are good or bad. I know since I’m late to registration. It’s slim pickings now.
My waitlist is as follows:
Browne EC #8
Eliot-Hine #2
Stuart-Hodson #34 (not optimistic)
Friendship Blow-Pierce #5
Friendship Chamberlin #7
Boundary School is Jefferson Middle
I did see BASIS a lot on here, I didn’t bother because I’m SURE we won’t get past that waitlist this late in.
Are these good schools? Chances of being taken off waitlist?