My husband was there. No one who actually came to the lottery draw IN PERSON won a spot. He estimated around two dozen or so parents attended. Some sad people in that room.

I wonder if the paid line stander person was able to beat the online applicants for the #1 wait list spot...

Anonymous wrote:Were any of the winning families present?

Nope

Omg. They had 14 non-preference open spaces for the lottery for the whole entire school

Were any of the winning families present?

They drew first PK4. There were 9 spots for PK4. One set of twins got 2 out of the 9. Then there were two ¨winners¨with siblings also entering the lottery: one for 2nd grade and one for K. Then they drew the 5 spots for PK3. One of the ¨winners¨had a sibling applying for PK4, so I guess that sibling goes to the top of the WL for PK4. People have after April 29 to accept. After that, families taken from the WL are given 1 week to accept. Come late summer, you are given 24 hours to accept. You need to enroll in person (per OSSE).

One gazillion.

Did they say how many PK3 and PK4 applicants there were?

How many people were in the audience?

Anonymous wrote:Whoa, that is not very many slots at all. I wonder if they cut a PK4 class to make room for PK3? There are usually 4 PK4 rooms.

Doubtful. They always need an even number of classes for rotating English/Mandarin starting in K.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There were 5 spots for PK 3 and 11 for PK 4 if i am remembering correctly.

You have got to be kidding me. Don't they have 2 PK4 classes. Its that many with preference??? UGH!

They have 4 prek4 classes with 18/19 students per class with a head and assistant teachers.

huh, so the twin will take the first PK wait list spot. And then will it move at all?
With only 10 non siblings granted admission, how many of them will even decline? This may be the year that the wait list doesn't even move. So much for all the standing-in-line and time stamp nonsense.

Of course there are. That is why there were only a few slots.

Anonymous wrote:I don't remember any PK 4 students having PK3 sibs, but I may have missed one. I remember PK 4 kids having sibs in K and second and of course the twin.

Well, maybe there are K, 1st, 2nd, etc students that have PK3 siblings.

apparently there is a bumper crop of siblings this year. there are no spots at all in the grades above PreK4!!!