Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:56
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ITDS didn't move at all for 5th. Wow. It did move for 6th though.
Sounds like they are accurately accepting the right number of kids in the initial lottery, because I know that there were several new faces in the fifth grade this year.
Yes, there were some new kids, not a ton. So many ITDS kids went to Latin Cooper the first year Cooper opened, there's kind of a sibling echo of that.
They had 15 seats for 5th so there were more than a few new kids. That means they lost about 30% of the kids after 4th grade. Same thing with 5th, where they lost 30% of the class since there were 15 seats for 6th.
That is a significant number of kids not staying for middle school.
No, they over-fill in the initial lottery and then not all kids accept. I have a kid in that cohort and there certainly are not 15 new kids. That level of attrition happened when Cooper first opened but not since then.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:53
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mundo 8th also cleared its lists. All of them. I think charter saturation in Ward 5 has been reached (passed?)
What? No they did not clear all their waitlists. Only 1st and 2nd.
Sorry, cleared all but 3 kids?
Yes. They cleared their waitlists.
I have no idea what you are looking at but I’m looking at waitlist length on result day and it does not match total waitlist offer by October. To clear their waitlist, these numbers should be the same. That only matches in 1st and 2nd grade.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:48
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ITDS didn't move at all for 5th. Wow. It did move for 6th though.
Sounds like they are accurately accepting the right number of kids in the initial lottery, because I know that there were several new faces in the fifth grade this year.
Yes, there were some new kids, not a ton. So many ITDS kids went to Latin Cooper the first year Cooper opened, there's kind of a sibling echo of that.
They had 15 seats for 5th so there were more than a few new kids. That means they lost about 30% of the kids after 4th grade. Same thing with 5th, where they lost 30% of the class since there were 15 seats for 6th.
That is a significant number of kids not staying for middle school.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:45
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Mundo Calle Ocho cleared its initial match day waitlist in the week or two before the school year started for PK3. But some PK3 MV8 kids were going to be in swing space at Cook this year.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:44
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mundo 8th also cleared its lists. All of them. I think charter saturation in Ward 5 has been reached (passed?)
What? No they did not clear all their waitlists. Only 1st and 2nd.
Sorry, cleared all but 3 kids?
Yes. They cleared their waitlists.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:42
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ooh fun.
Notes:
Cooper made 32 9th grade offers. Backfilling from selective school losses?
DCI Non-Feeder: No waitlist movement at DCI French in any grade other than 6th, which had 44 offers. 12 offers each for 6th and 9th from DCI Spanish. 20 offers for DCI Chinese. All feeder kids were offered earlier this summer.
A few more offers at Walls.
There was no offers for DCI chinese in 6th which means that all YY kids tracked to DCI. The only way to get into DCI is French in 6th and Chinese in 9th for this year.
A very, very small chance for spanish.
I agree with previous poster that these are offers and not seats. Actual seats much lower.
Well, it means they decided not to make any offers.
No it does not mean that.
If there are any open seats after feeder kids then it goes to non feeder kids. DCI had 0 seats for non-feeder and made 0 offers off the waitlist.
What the trend and data is showing is that more and more kids from feeder schools are taking their schools spot at DCI. Not just at YY but other schools too.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:37
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Mundo 8th also cleared its lists. All of them. I think charter saturation in Ward 5 has been reached (passed?)
What? No they did not clear all their waitlists. Only 1st and 2nd.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 21:32
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Mundo 8th also cleared its lists. All of them. I think charter saturation in Ward 5 has been reached (passed?)
Anonymous
10/17/2025 20:18
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ITDS didn't move at all for 5th. Wow. It did move for 6th though.
Sounds like they are accurately accepting the right number of kids in the initial lottery, because I know that there were several new faces in the fifth grade this year.
Yes, there were some new kids, not a ton. So many ITDS kids went to Latin Cooper the first year Cooper opened, there's kind of a sibling echo of that.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 20:16
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:ITDS didn't move at all for 5th. Wow. It did move for 6th though.
Sounds like they are accurately accepting the right number of kids in the initial lottery, because I know that there were several new faces in the fifth grade this year.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 20:08
Subject: Re:Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ludlow-Taylor waitlists didn't move at all, with the exception of PK and a single October offer for 4th grade. Recalling people saying that's related to ongoing construction?
Meanwhile, Brent made 3x the number of offers it did last year. Bussing to Columbia Heights definitely not appealing to people.
Yes regarding L-T. Construction that was supposed to be done before school started in August was not even up out of the ground at that point. They now claim it will be done before kids are back in the building after winter break. I remain skeptical. Glad they didn't overextend with offers in this environment. Next year will likely be a different story once the school can spread out into the new space (though don't expect them to suddenly add a ton of seats, I just think there will be more cushion on the margins).
Not surprised about Brent though we don't know any Brent families who left this year. I am betting they just burned through waitlists when offers were made and they had to clearly disclose the swing space situation. I recall we were in a similar boat with an offer to CHML when they were renovating and it was the same thing -- we were one of many families who turned it down because we didn't want to commit to busing our then-3 yo kid across town daily.
Brent construction seems to be moving very slowly too. Hope they pick up the pace.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 19:44
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Does total waitlist offers made mean that’s how many offers they sent out before the October deadline? Does it show if the spot was accepted or not?
Yes, and it doesn't show.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 19:41
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Does total waitlist offers made mean that’s how many offers they sent out before the October deadline? Does it show if the spot was accepted or not?
Anonymous
10/17/2025 17:57
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ooh fun.
Notes:
Cooper made 32 9th grade offers. Backfilling from selective school losses?
DCI Non-Feeder: No waitlist movement at DCI French in any grade other than 6th, which had 44 offers. 12 offers each for 6th and 9th from DCI Spanish. 20 offers for DCI Chinese. All feeder kids were offered earlier this summer.
A few more offers at Walls.
There was no offers for DCI chinese in 6th which means that all YY kids tracked to DCI. The only way to get into DCI is French in 6th and Chinese in 9th for this year.
A very, very small chance for spanish.
I agree with previous poster that these are offers and not seats. Actual seats much lower.
Well, it means they decided not to make any offers.
Anonymous
10/17/2025 17:55
Subject: Waitlist Data Up
Anonymous wrote:Ooh fun.
Notes:
Cooper made 32 9th grade offers. Backfilling from selective school losses?
DCI Non-Feeder: No waitlist movement at DCI French in any grade other than 6th, which had 44 offers. 12 offers each for 6th and 9th from DCI Spanish. 20 offers for DCI Chinese. All feeder kids were offered earlier this summer.
A few more offers at Walls.
There was no offers for DCI chinese in 6th which means that all YY kids tracked to DCI. The only way to get into DCI is French in 6th and Chinese in 9th for this year.
A very, very small chance for spanish.
I agree with previous poster that these are offers and not seats. Actual seats much lower.