Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 15:14     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Does anyone have a sense of the breakdown of lottery applicants by PK v. Start of Middle school v. Start of High school v. Other grades?

I’ve only done the lottery for PK grades and don’t have a sense of how prevalent it is to lottery for later grades. Seems like start of middle and start of high school are common?
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 15:11     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:I’ll repeat my annual refrain: My wish is that DC would not publish the results until midday Friday. My point of reference is my child’s awful experience in learning at school that many of her friends would be changing schools.


Or at end of day like the privates usually do.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 15:07     Subject: DC Lottery Results
I’ll repeat my annual refrain: My wish is that DC would not publish the results until midday Friday. My point of reference is my child’s awful experience in learning at school that many of her friends would be changing schools.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 14:46     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Everyone stop posting until the results are released. Y’all are annoying.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 14:38     Subject: Re:DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Also, there are some major advantages to going to your neighborhood school in the community in which you live—and therefore most of your kids’ classmates live as well.


The problem is this is simply untrue. Most of the kids in the Hill middle schools are OOB.


But if you looked at their actual addresses they aren't necessarily from very far OOB, due to the Hill's weird boundaries. Therefore they are in the same general community.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 14:30     Subject: Re:DC Lottery Results
Also, there are some major advantages to going to your neighborhood school in the community in which you live—and therefore most of your kids’ classmates live as well.


The problem is this is simply untrue. Most of the kids in the Hill middle schools are OOB.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 13:15     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Can someone please post the link to waitlist data from previous years?
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 13:07     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Whatever you do, do not go to Creative Minds International. Their enrollment has been steadily declining and it's because they are awful at academics. Students aren't learning and they are just pushed along to the next grade level. There are middle schoolers who have been there since preschool and are not reading!! Where is the accountability?!
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 12:36     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:The anxiety of parents and the kids should be studied because while I know that today is NOT results day, I feel so anxious as if it is!


💯 Exactly!
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2025 14:04     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The anxiety of parents and the kids should be studied because while I know that today is NOT results day, I feel so anxious as if it is!


I understand it feels like a lot is at stake, but how we talk about schools and exhibit this behavior around our kids really does matter. I’ve heard stories of kids feeling like they had been fully shutout from middle school when they didn’t get into Latin. And my kids tell me what their friends who go to Latin say about being at a superior school to them.

There are kids at all of the Hill middle schools who are genuinely happy and thriving, and the number of higher-achieving kids attending each of those schools seems to be growing each year. Also, there are some major advantages to going to your neighborhood school in the community in which you live—and therefore most of your kids’ classmates live as well.

I wish everyone all the best this week, but let’s not crush our kids with our own anxieties.


This. If you think kids don't hear you or your disappointment that they have they stay at the place most of them like with friends and teachers who care about them you're deluding yourself. Kids change schools for a lot of reasons but one of the worst parts of DC school is the toxicity that if you don't go to one of like 10 schools, and even fewer for MS and HS, than you're not worthy.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2025 00:10     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Why brah?
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2025 00:00     Subject: DC Lottery Results
You Hill parents are crz
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 23:56     Subject: Re:DC Lottery Results
Also, there are some major advantages to going to your neighborhood school in the community in which you live—and therefore most of your kids’ classmates live as well.


At some of the DCPS middle schools, inbound students are in the minority.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 23:36     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The anxiety of parents and the kids should be studied because while I know that today is NOT results day, I feel so anxious as if it is!


I understand it feels like a lot is at stake, but how we talk about schools and exhibit this behavior around our kids really does matter. I’ve heard stories of kids feeling like they had been fully shutout from middle school when they didn’t get into Latin. And my kids tell me what their friends who go to Latin say about being at a superior school to them.

There are kids at all of the Hill middle schools who are genuinely happy and thriving, and the number of higher-achieving kids attending each of those schools seems to be growing each year. Also, there are some major advantages to going to your neighborhood school in the community in which you live—and therefore most of your kids’ classmates live as well.

I wish everyone all the best this week, but let’s not crush our kids with our own anxieties.


This x100

It is bad enough for parents to preach about their school and cut down other schools, but when the kids hear and parrot these words, it creates horrible dynamics between kids.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 18:18     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:The anxiety of parents and the kids should be studied because while I know that today is NOT results day, I feel so anxious as if it is!


Is the school you’re considering hard to get in?