Glad to know we didn't pull the last draw in the lottery. Just bottom 5 or so. I give up.

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Anonymous wrote:Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.

Right! I don't understand how it's fair or how it supposedly increases chances of getting into your first choice. I think it's bullshit that people can rank a school #10 and get a spot, while folks who put it first are waitlisted.

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Anonymous wrote:Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.

+1. It's really all or nothing now, previously the luck tended to be more fairly distributed, as everybody had multiple shots. We are in the bottom half for everything as well.

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.

Interesting to look at the relative popularity of some of the schools frequently talked about here. Here are the lists in order for PK3:

1. LAMB 548
2. MV 468
3. CMI 433
4. Two Rivers (4th) 358
5. Yu Ying 355
6. Stokes Spanish 335
7. ITS 326
8. DCB 293
9. Lee 268
10. Stokes French 230
11. SSMA 184
12. El Haynes 182
13. Two Rivers (y) 171
14. Bridges 144
15. Breakthrough 137
16. Sela 3 (can this be correct?)

Our wl numbers for fifth are pretty good, surprisingly. Of course, I don't WANT to go anywhere new for fifth, but damned if I know what we will do for middle school from our current option.

Optimistically, we will leave DC and move back to NYC, where application middle schools are a blood sport... Ugh.

Anonymous wrote:I'm actually surprised at how poorly distributed this demand for HRCS seems to be. The real demand is ECE which is not that different than DCPS

People don't tend to jump around after K as much. Especially with language schools.

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Anonymous wrote:There is high demand in middle school charter programs at nearly a dozen charter schools--across the spectrum----

I defined high demand as a wait list in the middle grades >40 students. They are:

EL Haynes
DC Prep-Edgewood
Cap City
Creative Minds
DC Scholars
DCI
KIPP AIM
KIPP KEY
SEED PCS ( 126 on wait list for 6th! )
Two Rivers

I'm sorry -- at many schools getting a waitlist # of 40 virtually guarantees a seat.

Why are you sorry? It still indicates high demand.

Anonymous wrote:The increase in 5th grade is probably coming from all those families with children in Ward 6 that Bowser et al have basically told to eff off. There is nothing close to Alice Deal for All.

Ward 6 parent here - Don't forget parents finally realizing that DCPS for middle is joke.

Anonymous wrote:There is high demand in middle school charter programs at nearly a dozen charter schools--across the spectrum----

I defined high demand as a wait list in the middle grades >40 students. They are:

EL Haynes
DC Prep-Edgewood
Cap City
Creative Minds
DC Scholars
DCI
KIPP AIM
KIPP KEY
SEED PCS ( 126 on wait list for 6th! )
Two Rivers

I'm sorry -- at many schools getting a waitlist # of 40 virtually guarantees a seat.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, this proves that Sela is a GREAT safety.

Yeah, unless they decide they have to shutter their doors in late August because they won't bring in the tax dollars they need...

Also, aren't they losing the revenue stream of shared space with SSMA? I'm assuming there's some significant grant/foundation resources behind the school. Has to be. I asked on another thread "what's the plan?" Does anyone know?

Anonymous wrote:Well, this proves that Sela is a GREAT safety.

Yeah, unless they decide they have to shutter their doors in late August because they won't bring in the tax dollars they need...

Well, this proves that Sela is a GREAT safety.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CMI middle school has no waitlist.

They don't go past 6th, right? That's what N/A means (rather than a zero) for all the schools that don't offer a particular grade, I think. Seems reasonable that families don't want to join a school community for just one year, which happens to be their oldest year.

No - they will go through 8th. Next year, they will offer 6th for the first time and then will add a grade each year until they reach 8th. Your kid enrolling in 6th would be the leading edge grade, but would have a path through 8th.

Does CMI have 5th now? So those kids will hopefully move up?

Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.