+1. Take your PreS3 slot if you're offered one. They can change boundaries before K. No guarantees at all next year if you're not IN.

Basically, your kids entire academic career could be made on whether you get lucky in the lottery when they are 3 years old. Imagine if you got into a great DCPS school for p3 and got to continue in the feeder all the way through Wilson even though you are OOB for all of it. This is whats so truly effed up about DC education.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So - if a school was over capacity at K and had a surge of new inbound children entering, the school would find a way to accommodate everyone?

Has this happened?

If they could not accommodate every Kindergartener, who would not be allowed to attend?

They must accomodate for K and up, even it takes adding classrooms in trailers to do it.

Many, many schools do this. They rent trailers and cram more kids in classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:So - if a school was over capacity at K and had a surge of new inbound children entering, the school would find a way to accommodate everyone?

Has this happened?

If they could not accommodate every Kindergartener, who would not be allowed to attend?

They must accomodate for K and up, even it takes adding classrooms in trailers to do it.

They are supposed to accommodate them all. They have huge class sizes and add trailers if needed. Some schools will limit their preschool numbers in order to try to reserve some places for all the incoming Ks.

So - if a school was over capacity at K and had a surge of new inbound children entering, the school would find a way to accommodate everyone?

Has this happened?

If they could not accommodate every Kindergartener, who would not be allowed to attend?

expect this policy to change with the upcoming redrawing of school boundary lines, esp for the transition from elementary to Deal as a middle, and from Deal to Wilson, if you are OOB and entered an elementary via lottery

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Anonymous wrote:In Boundary (IB) children are GUARANTEED a spot starting at K (and no earlier).

Out-of-Boundary (OOB) must lottery starting at K if they want a school other than their neighborhood school.

EVERYONE (IB or OOB) must lottery for PS and PK. PS and PK isn't a given anywhere.

Once you get into any school at any grade, you are welcome to stay as long as you want.

Not sure this last statement is true in every circumstance: if you got the spot because you are IB and you subsequently move OOB, then I think it is principal discretion to allow you to stay at the former IB school. Otherwise everyone would rent for 6 months IB for a great school, and then move back to their former residence.

Fair enough. If you get in OOB, you can stay there. If you get in IB, then yes, principal has discretion if you move away.

Anonymous wrote:In Boundary (IB) children are GUARANTEED a spot starting at K (and no earlier).

Out-of-Boundary (OOB) must lottery starting at K if they want a school other than their neighborhood school.

EVERYONE (IB or OOB) must lottery for PS and PK. PS and PK isn't a given anywhere.

Once you get into any school at any grade, you are welcome to stay as long as you want.

Not sure this last statement is true in every circumstance: if you got the spot because you are IB and you subsequently move OOB, then I think it is principal discretion to allow you to stay at the former IB school. Otherwise everyone would rent for 6 months IB for a great school, and then move back to their former residence.

In Boundary (IB) children are GUARANTEED a spot starting at K (and no earlier).

Out-of-Boundary (OOB) must lottery starting at K if they want a school other than their neighborhood school.

EVERYONE (IB or OOB) must lottery for PS and PK. PS and PK isn't a given anywhere.

Once you get into any school at any grade, you are welcome to stay as long as you want.

Wow, so I totally misunderstood this. I thought ps was totally separate
Thanks for the info

Anonymous wrote:If you get a lottery slot in a dcps for pk3 or 4, are you then able to attend that school for the later grades? I thought no, my friend says yes. I thought for k and up they only promised for in boundary kids and out of boundary had to do the K lottery
Is it potentially different for city wide schools that aren't in the boundary system?
I tried to find the answer on the dcps site but could not
Thanks

Yes, once you get in via the lottery, you can stay in. According to the current process, you can also progress to the next school in the feeder pattern. For example, if you get into Key ES via the OOB lottery, you may then attend Hardy MS.

Once you begin at a DCPS school, whether as an IB or OB student, that child is entitled to continue attending there (and any feeder schools afterward) without having to do the lottery again.

Once you're in, you're in. They don't kick you out at K.

If you get a lottery slot in a dcps for pk3 or 4, are you then able to attend that school for the later grades? I thought no, my friend says yes. I thought for k and up they only promised for in boundary kids and out of boundary had to do the K lottery
Is it potentially different for city wide schools that aren't in the boundary system?
I tried to find the answer on the dcps site but could not
Thanks