Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 19:54     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:Prek3
No sibling preference

Matched LAMB

Kid is currently at a bilingual Montessori 4 blocks from our home, has been there for a year. Lamb is about 10 minute drive north from where we are in Columbia heights so will be a half hour X2 commitment daily. We admittedly did about a weeks worth of research before doing the DC lottery so we don't know all that much about lamb. Just looking to hear thoughts on Lamb. Thanks



Too bad you didn’t do any research, because if you matched for LAMB then you had a pretty good lottery number and could have gotten in anywhere.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 19:53     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:My child is going into first grade. He's 8 on the waitlist for Shepherd, 10 for Lafayette, Bancroft and Murch, and 7 for Hearst. What is the likelihood of getting into any of these prior to the start of school?



Shepherd had 6 lottery first grade seats for 24-25 and took 0 kids off the waitlist. However, a K classroom was added this year, so there might be more spots in first for next year. But I doubt you will know by the start of school because they will probably hold spots for by-right kids who move into the neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 19:52     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Prek3
No sibling preference

Matched LAMB

Kid is currently at a bilingual Montessori 4 blocks from our home, has been there for a year. Lamb is about 10 minute drive north from where we are in Columbia heights so will be a half hour X2 commitment daily. We admittedly did about a weeks worth of research before doing the DC lottery so we don't know all that much about lamb. Just looking to hear thoughts on Lamb. Thanks
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 19:40     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:My child is going into first grade. He's 8 on the waitlist for Shepherd, 10 for Lafayette, Bancroft and Murch, and 7 for Hearst. What is the likelihood of getting into any of these prior to the start of school?


The only one I feel confident commenting on is Bancroft. Your kid will not get in there.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 19:10     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Last year Inspired 2nd grade had 2 lottery seats and 46 on the waitlist. Only 1 offer had been made by August. Then 29 offers by October!

The parents of 27 kids had ranked Inspired higher than the school the kid ultimately attended, and they still didn't move the kid.

What does that say? Preference for stability? Or they liked the school they got more than they thought they did?

Irrelevant detail: we moved our kid in the last week of September in PK-3, and it made her very happy.

Now she's #15 at inspired 2nd grade, which is a September or later offer, if at all.


Absolutely guessing here, but I would think that people moving in 1st are already fairly settled somewhere and less inclined to take a spot offered in September or October than families at other grade levels.


We moved our son into 1st at Inspired well into September. We do not regret it. They may possibly prefer parents who have a STRONG preference for ITDS as we did.


What they do is they don't move their list until late in the summer, so people who aren't that into it might have gotten off the list by then.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 19:05     Subject: DC Lottery Results
My child is going into first grade. He's 8 on the waitlist for Shepherd, 10 for Lafayette, Bancroft and Murch, and 7 for Hearst. What is the likelihood of getting into any of these prior to the start of school?
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 18:30     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Last year Inspired 2nd grade had 2 lottery seats and 46 on the waitlist. Only 1 offer had been made by August. Then 29 offers by October!

The parents of 27 kids had ranked Inspired higher than the school the kid ultimately attended, and they still didn't move the kid.

What does that say? Preference for stability? Or they liked the school they got more than they thought they did?

Irrelevant detail: we moved our kid in the last week of September in PK-3, and it made her very happy.

Now she's #15 at inspired 2nd grade, which is a September or later offer, if at all.


Absolutely guessing here, but I would think that people moving in 1st are already fairly settled somewhere and less inclined to take a spot offered in September or October than families at other grade levels.


We moved our son into 1st at Inspired well into September. We do not regret it. They may possibly prefer parents who have a STRONG preference for ITDS as we did.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 18:28     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Last year Inspired 2nd grade had 2 lottery seats and 46 on the waitlist. Only 1 offer had been made by August. Then 29 offers by October!

The parents of 27 kids had ranked Inspired higher than the school the kid ultimately attended, and they still didn't move the kid.

What does that say? Preference for stability? Or they liked the school they got more than they thought they did?

Irrelevant detail: we moved our kid in the last week of September in PK-3, and it made her very happy.

Now she's #15 at inspired 2nd grade, which is a September or later offer, if at all.


Absolutely guessing here, but I would think that people moving in 1st are already fairly settled somewhere and less inclined to take a spot offered in September or October than families at other grade levels.


As a family who was offered one of those second grade spots last year: it's this. If it has been PK, K, or maybe 1st, we would have done it. A month of second is a big deal for a 7 yr old, they would have fought us on it and if it wasn't a good fit we would have felt extra bad about taking them from their current school.

This year we got into our first choice school for 3rd (not Inspired, though we ranked it again) and I'm so glad we didn't go through that upheaval last year.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 17:50     Subject: Re:DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We are in feeder and DS and all his friends got into DCI. Everyone is so ecstatic and excited.


Please, DCI is just OK. There hasn't been nearly enough challenge in the middle school for my kid, other than for math, and many of the mostly young teachers have poor classroom management skills. We hear that high school is better, but not enough challenge there either. We can up through YuYing and are moving to VA for HS.

PS. If you got in on the Chinese track, be prepared for a program where 1 or 2 students in the entire middle school program mainly speak Chinese at home, more likely zero. So ridiculous that excitement is a stretch or at least should be.


Your kid is not in the right track. Plenty of challenge in the spanish track if you are higher performing.

No surprises about Chinese. What did you expect in DC. All the chinese are in the burbs. Now spanish, tons of spanish kids and native families. That’s the difference.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 17:34     Subject: Re:DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted #19 DL and #13 Eng for Cleveland. Historical data shows movement on waitlist offers. We won't get into Bruce Monroe #15, so wondering anyone's thoughts on Cleveland movement. Matched with Thomson, and am realizing they don't have before care and we are in RTO hell.


Thomson is a great school, but you are correct they only have aftercare. Earliest drop off in the moring is 8:15 am


Second the love for Thomson. Amazing staff and school leadership. If you can make the before care thing work, highly recommend.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 16:56     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:My kid's waitlist number at Ludlow-Taylor is 12 and the second grade has had 6 open seats filled no pref each of the last 4 years, what do you think the odds are of getting in before September?



L-T's 1st grade is so big that they're adding a 4th classroom for 2nd next year. I would say it is very likely that they take a few additional 2nd graders (in addition to any initial matches that turn down slots) to fill the classes to 20. So this particular year, I'd say very good odds.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 16:42     Subject: Re:DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Under 5 on the WL for Latin Cooper for 6th grade. No idea if there is even a shot, as it looks like only 2 offers last year. Very curious if all of the employment upheaval will mean more enrollment upheaval, but who knows.
. We are in the same boat. Does your kid have a sibling there?


No.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 16:40     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else have a kid on the MacArthur? Anxious to see how it will move.


My kid was 130 or so last year for 9th grade and received an offer in July.


I bet it moves quickly. There are a bunch of Hardy 8th graders going to privates and now SWW.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 16:39     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:Matched at Tubman (our inbound) for prek4. Deciding if we want to leave John Francis (leaning yes, the commute is killing me, though still hesitant about giving up a "better" school with a pretty good middle school by all accounts).


Tubman will still be in the swing space at 800 Euclid for the next school year and DCPS does not provide transportation. Tubman is also looking like it will lose ~12 positions in budget cuts due to under enrollment. People talking about what that might mean in coming years in this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1261382.page

I'd stick with John Francis at least through the next year.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 16:05     Subject: DC Lottery Results
Anonymous wrote:Last year Inspired 2nd grade had 2 lottery seats and 46 on the waitlist. Only 1 offer had been made by August. Then 29 offers by October!

The parents of 27 kids had ranked Inspired higher than the school the kid ultimately attended, and they still didn't move the kid.

What does that say? Preference for stability? Or they liked the school they got more than they thought they did?

Irrelevant detail: we moved our kid in the last week of September in PK-3, and it made her very happy.

Now she's #15 at inspired 2nd grade, which is a September or later offer, if at all.


Absolutely guessing here, but I would think that people moving in 1st are already fairly settled somewhere and less inclined to take a spot offered in September or October than families at other grade levels.