Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in any helpful intel on some of my down-ballot choices. Main priorities are just that a school is warm and child-friendly and not suuuper academic and just helps little kids learn to be people. Other priorities are quality aftercare and commute. We're on the Hill now but rent and can move easily (so also not tremendously concerned about after K), but school must be within at least a reasonable biking distance (<10 mins) from a Metro. Because evidently I hate commuting more than I love my DC.

1. Fancy Charter 1!
2. Fancy Charter 2!
3. Fancy Charter 3!
4. Peabody (IB)
5. Van Ness
6. Tyler
7. Miner
8. William E. Doar
9. J.O. Wilson
10. Seaton
11. Langley
12. Langdon Montessori

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in any helpful intel on some of my down-ballot choices. Main priorities are just that a school is warm and child-friendly and not suuuper academic and just helps little kids learn to be people. Other priorities are quality aftercare and commute. We're on the Hill now but rent and can move easily (so also not tremendously concerned about after K), but school must be within at least a reasonable biking distance (<10 mins) from a Metro. Because evidently I hate commuting more than I love my DC.

1. Fancy Charter 1!
2. Fancy Charter 2!
3. Fancy Charter 3!
4. Peabody (IB)
5. Van Ness
6. Tyler
7. Miner
8. William E. Doar
9. J.O. Wilson
10. Seaton
11. Langley
12. Langdon Montessori

Tell us more about Doar. I live near there so I'm curious.

Did you visit Langley and if so what did you think? We are IB for Langley and feel positive about it-- enough to shorten our list to 9 schools.

I am also curious about Langdon-- tell us about it. Do you know anyone who goes there?

Ha, that's why I need all you lovely people! I haven't visited 7-12, just know them from Ed Fest, one friend with a current kid happily at J.O. Wilson, and scouring the forums. I figure if we get in somewhere down list we can visit then and see what we think, or stick with our current daycare, which is great.

I was pretty impressed with Doar at Ed Fest though, and was surprised that so few folks on here seem to consider it. My DD likes to sit at her grandma's office desk and play "doing work," so while I'm sure she'd love a more traditional school, I think the early exposure to the arts would be good to expand her horizons, foster creativity, blah blah. Same with Tyler, which I did tour. Everyone seemed mostly interested in the immersion program, but I thought the "traditional" arts integration program sounded terrific and really fun!

What do you love about Langley? Maybe I'll bump it up.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in any helpful intel on some of my down-ballot choices. Main priorities are just that a school is warm and child-friendly and not suuuper academic and just helps little kids learn to be people. Other priorities are quality aftercare and commute. We're on the Hill now but rent and can move easily (so also not tremendously concerned about after K), but school must be within at least a reasonable biking distance (<10 mins) from a Metro. Because evidently I hate commuting more than I love my DC.

1. Fancy Charter 1!
2. Fancy Charter 2!
3. Fancy Charter 3!
4. Peabody (IB)
5. Van Ness
6. Tyler
7. Miner
8. William E. Doar
9. J.O. Wilson
10. Seaton
11. Langley
12. Langdon Montessori

Tell us more about Doar. I live near there so I'm curious.

Did you visit Langley and if so what did you think? We are IB for Langley and feel positive about it-- enough to shorten our list to 9 schools.

I am also curious about Langdon-- tell us about it. Do you know anyone who goes there?

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 family with no IB and no pk3 options anywhere near home. Aiming for options near work, not far from the ballpark.

1. Hyde-Addison
2. Appletree Lincoln Park
3. Appletree SW
4. Van Ness
5. Eagle Academy

May also get cold feet and back out of the whole process. Our current daycare is expensive and unreliable, but may still be easier for our family to take than a rough commute/schedule.

How do you not have an IB? I thought everyone had an IB.

I'm sure the "no IB" poster means no IB with PK3. Poster's IB ES would start at PK4.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 family with no IB and no pk3 options anywhere near home. Aiming for options near work, not far from the ballpark.

1. Hyde-Addison
2. Appletree Lincoln Park
3. Appletree SW
4. Van Ness
5. Eagle Academy

May also get cold feet and back out of the whole process. Our current daycare is expensive and unreliable, but may still be easier for our family to take than a rough commute/schedule.

How do you not have an IB? I thought everyone had an IB.

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1. Van Ness Elementary School
2. Brent Elementary School
3. Maury Elementary School
4. Shepherd Elementary School
5. Bancroft Elementary School
6. Ross Elementary School
7. Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
8. Creative Minds International PCS
9. Hyde-Addison Elementary School
10. Seaton Elementary School
11. Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS (Spanish Language Program)
12. Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School

I'm very interested in where you live...Shaw?

We live in Capitol Hill, inbounds for Miner

Take off Ross - it's a waste of a slot.

Have you done the drive to Shepard and CMI from your house?

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 family with no IB and no pk3 options anywhere near home. Aiming for options near work, not far from the ballpark.

1. Hyde-Addison
2. Appletree Lincoln Park
3. Appletree SW
4. Van Ness
5. Eagle Academy

May also get cold feet and back out of the whole process. Our current daycare is expensive and unreliable, but may still be easier for our family to take than a rough commute/schedule.

Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in any helpful intel on some of my down-ballot choices. Main priorities are just that a school is warm and child-friendly and not suuuper academic and just helps little kids learn to be people. Other priorities are quality aftercare and commute. We're on the Hill now but rent and can move easily (so also not tremendously concerned about after K), but school must be within at least a reasonable biking distance (<10 mins) from a Metro. Because evidently I hate commuting more than I love my DC.

1. Fancy Charter 1!
2. Fancy Charter 2!
3. Fancy Charter 3!
4. Peabody (IB)
5. Van Ness
6. Tyler
7. Miner
8. William E. Doar
9. J.O. Wilson
10. Seaton
11. Langley
12. Langdon Montessori

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 family with no IB and no pk3 options anywhere near home. Aiming for options near work, not far from the ballpark.

1. Hyde-Addison
2. Appletree Lincoln Park
3. Appletree SW
4. Van Ness
5. Eagle Academy

May also get cold feet and back out of the whole process. Our current daycare is expensive and unreliable, but may still be easier for our family to take than a rough commute/schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in any helpful intel on some of my down-ballot choices. Main priorities are just that a school is warm and child-friendly and not suuuper academic and just helps little kids learn to be people. Other priorities are quality aftercare and commute. We're on the Hill now but rent and can move easily (so also not tremendously concerned about after K), but school must be within at least a reasonable biking distance (<10 mins) from a Metro. Because evidently I hate commuting more than I love my DC.

1. Fancy Charter 1!
2. Fancy Charter 2!
3. Fancy Charter 3!
4. Peabody (IB)
5. Van Ness
6. Tyler
7. Miner
8. William E. Doar
9. J.O. Wilson
10. Seaton
11. Langley
12. Langdon Montessori

I'd add SWS near the top of the list since you are on the Hill.

Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in any helpful intel on some of my down-ballot choices. Main priorities are just that a school is warm and child-friendly and not suuuper academic and just helps little kids learn to be people. Other priorities are quality aftercare and commute. We're on the Hill now but rent and can move easily (so also not tremendously concerned about after K), but school must be within at least a reasonable biking distance (<10 mins) from a Metro. Because evidently I hate commuting more than I love my DC.

1. Fancy Charter 1!
2. Fancy Charter 2!
3. Fancy Charter 3!
4. Peabody (IB)
5. Van Ness
6. Tyler
7. Miner
8. William E. Doar
9. J.O. Wilson
10. Seaton
11. Langley
12. Langdon Montessori

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Anonymous wrote:For the posters who keep asking people re: why no MV - as someone who lives near MV, and has to drive by there daily, I can tell you the commute can be....challenging.

I tried the commute there which initially was ok, maybe 12 min driving but then another 10min circiling for parkng which I would have to find to walk my DD into classroom. The real bitch was having to get on NY avenue afterwards. I figured getting there in the evening for pick up would be ten times worse. I loved the open house but am kind of relieved there are no spots in PS3 this year so I can take it off my list and not think twice.

If you live on the other side of NY/FL and plan on driving - I'm not sure how you can make this commute work. As someone who lives in this neighborhood, I DO appreciate that they are not doing a drop off in front of the school, but as someone who attends a different charter that I drive cross town for - I feel bad when I see parents driving around looking for spots.

MV does have a drop off lane in front of the school. It is also a convenient location for bus commuters as there is a bus stop for several popular routes just a block away. When I take the 92 bus with my kids it is packed with MV tshirts. I walk to work from there (30 min to the Verizon center).

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Adams Morgan. This is our current list:

Appletree
Bancroft
Meridian
Ross
LAMB Montessori
Mundo Verde
Bridges
Creative Minds
Inspired Teaching
Lee Montessori
Powell
HD Cooke
Marie Reed
Tubman

Going to also put Breakthrough in there somewhere...

Lamb is not common lottery so I'm assuming this isn't in order?

It is in order of our preference. We've applied to LAMB separately,

Interesting list - surprised to see Meridian so high. Good luck!

Why are you putting Ross on at all? If you're out of bounds you're not getting in.

Better question is why put Ross in, because it has no future beyond 5th? Even the better schools (like Brent) leave by 4th to get into a decent MS. Ross is a dead end, thus a waste of time.