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^^ The DCPS website only reflects the initial lottery result, not what happens in the subsequent weeks and months.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it any easier for PK4? I'm in the same area as OP but kid is a year older. I don't care much about language immersion though.

We are at Cooke. Historically at Cooke, PK4 is easier to lottery into than PK3 for OOB kids as the classes are larger and there are 3 classrooms for PK4 instead of 2 for PK3. I don't know if this was true last year, but it has definitely been true in years past.

The OP probably will not get in for PK3 though. The school hasn't accepted OOB 3yo for many years due to in-bound demand.

I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate.. I have a neighbor who got into Cooke OOB for PK3 last year. I don't know if it was first round or not but they knew at least by mid-summer.

The DCPS website says that zero children with “no preference” were offered seats in Cooke’s PK3 program last year. Perhaps your neighbor had a preference? http://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/61

Powell also has a proximity preference, but it didn't work out for friends of mine who had it. IB and sibling preferences obviously come first.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it any easier for PK4? I'm in the same area as OP but kid is a year older. I don't care much about language immersion though.

We are at Cooke. Historically at Cooke, PK4 is easier to lottery into than PK3 for OOB kids as the classes are larger and there are 3 classrooms for PK4 instead of 2 for PK3. I don't know if this was true last year, but it has definitely been true in years past.

The OP probably will not get in for PK3 though. The school hasn't accepted OOB 3yo for many years due to in-bound demand.

I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate.. I have a neighbor who got into Cooke OOB for PK3 last year. I don't know if it was first round or not but they knew at least by mid-summer.

I meant in the initial round.

Some of the OOB kids I know at Cooke are in the Oyster district and had a proximity preference for Cooke due to where they lived.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it any easier for PK4? I'm in the same area as OP but kid is a year older. I don't care much about language immersion though.

We are at Cooke. Historically at Cooke, PK4 is easier to lottery into than PK3 for OOB kids as the classes are larger and there are 3 classrooms for PK4 instead of 2 for PK3. I don't know if this was true last year, but it has definitely been true in years past.

The OP probably will not get in for PK3 though. The school hasn't accepted OOB 3yo for many years due to in-bound demand.

I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate.. I have a neighbor who got into Cooke OOB for PK3 last year. I don't know if it was first round or not but they knew at least by mid-summer.

I meant in the initial round.

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Anonymous wrote:When considering applying as OOB to any DCPS, I would carefully check the data to see if any OOB were admitted last year: http://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/61

Dumb question about the lottery results data: if it says 0 seats were offered, does that mean they only had enough seats for the continuing PK3 students?

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Anonymous wrote:When considering applying as OOB to any DCPS, I would carefully check the data to see if any OOB were admitted last year: http://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/61

Dumb question about the lottery results data: if it says 0 seats were offered, does that mean they only had enough seats for the continuing PK3 students?

^^forgot to add no sibling pref.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it any easier for PK4? I'm in the same area as OP but kid is a year older. I don't care much about language immersion though.

We are at Cooke. Historically at Cooke, PK4 is easier to lottery into than PK3 for OOB kids as the classes are larger and there are 3 classrooms for PK4 instead of 2 for PK3. I don't know if this was true last year, but it has definitely been true in years past.

The OP probably will not get in for PK3 though. The school hasn't accepted OOB 3yo for many years due to in-bound demand.

I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate.. I have a neighbor who got into Cooke OOB for PK3 last year. I don't know if it was first round or not but they knew at least by mid-summer.

Anonymous wrote:Is it any easier for PK4? I'm in the same area as OP but kid is a year older. I don't care much about language immersion though.

It really depends on the school. Some schools have more PK4 classrooms than PK3 classrooms, so in that case, yes. For most schools, I imagine it depends on if there is any attrition. The best way to tell for DCPS is to check the data at the link posted above. You can see how students got off the waitlist for PK4, and whether those students were IB or OOB or had sibling preference.

Charter schools have their own data, but it only tells you how many got off the waitlist for PK4, not sibling info.

Anonymous wrote:Is it any easier for PK4? I'm in the same area as OP but kid is a year older. I don't care much about language immersion though.

We are at Cooke. Historically at Cooke, PK4 is easier to lottery into than PK3 for OOB kids as the classes are larger and there are 3 classrooms for PK4 instead of 2 for PK3. I don't know if this was true last year, but it has definitely been true in years past.

The OP probably will not get in for PK3 though. The school hasn't accepted OOB 3yo for many years due to in-bound demand.