Anonymous
Post 06/16/2025 10:36     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?


My family is at the Calle Ocho campus and the impression that I have gotten from families who transferred from Cook to C8 is that it is very much a neighborhood concern. Crime continues to be a consistent issue in the immediate area and traffic levels make drop off difficult. C8 is tucked away on quiet neighborhood street with easier parking and flow.

As for the desire from posters here to stir up drama from a few years ago every time MV is mentioned... the old ED, who was one of the founders, is no longer and there is a new ED who is so far is living up to what families where hoping for in terms of transparency etc. She is a MV parent herself with a lot of skin in the game.


Ok but it takes time to recover a reputation. And the test scores are meh relative to demographics.
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2025 10:25     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?


My family is at the Calle Ocho campus and the impression that I have gotten from families who transferred from Cook to C8 is that it is very much a neighborhood concern. Crime continues to be a consistent issue in the immediate area and traffic levels make drop off difficult. C8 is tucked away on quiet neighborhood street with easier parking and flow.

As for the desire from posters here to stir up drama from a few years ago every time MV is mentioned... the old ED, who was one of the founders, is no longer and there is a new ED who is so far is living up to what families where hoping for in terms of transparency etc. She is a MV parent herself with a lot of skin in the game.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 14:37     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?


Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.


You really don't have a clue? I mean...it was only a short time ago that parents were protesting outside the school, upset about the poor quality of instruction and discipline oversight, as well as the lack of transparency from leadership.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 11:41     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?


Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.


Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?


I would talk to actual parents at the school. DCUMD hates MV and a lot of people commenting don’t have kids there. I am not there but know a few families that are overall happy. The neighborhood is a prime complaint.


+1
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 11:36     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?


Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.


Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?


I would talk to actual parents at the school. DCUMD hates MV and a lot of people commenting don’t have kids there. I am not there but know a few families that are overall happy. The neighborhood is a prime complaint.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 10:18     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?


Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.


Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 10:07     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?


Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 10:01     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 09:55     Subject: Re:June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:is the high application rate at walls with a much lower waitlist number because so many applicants weren’t even eligible?


Yes. But also, people could have matched somewhere they ranked higher and they would not have been waitlisted at Walls.


Whether or not an application school has a waitlist is entirely about how they've decided to manage admissions. A waitlist or lack of one at an application school has nothing to do with how many people applied and how desirable it is. I wish we could tag this fact as it comes up over and over again and people often make incorrect correlations between an application school's desirability and their waitlist / lack thereof.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 22:27     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
The male child is a disaster.

I know because I was him!
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 21:07     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Seems like DCB matched 36 of 38 spots, 2 left over. Stokes EE had 6 left over. LAMB had 1 left over. Calle Ocho 1 left over and Cook 3 left over. So I don't know why you would think it's just LAMB's spots.


DCB matched 36 of 38 but can send up to 50 students. I don't know how this affects interpreting waitlist offers but also not sure it matters much. I think all schools but LAMB and stokes will have larger 5th grade classes next year.


I am at a feeder and interesting the DCI seat allotment for next year. The current 4th grade class is significantly larger than this year’s 5th grade class. I think it’s over 100 students.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 21:02     Subject: Re:June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:is the high application rate at walls with a much lower waitlist number because so many applicants weren’t even eligible?


Yes. But also, people could have matched somewhere they ranked higher and they would not have been waitlisted at Walls.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 20:47     Subject: Re:June waitlist data is up!
is the high application rate at walls with a much lower waitlist number because so many applicants weren’t even eligible?
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 20:36     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:

Seems like DCB matched 36 of 38 spots, 2 left over. Stokes EE had 6 left over. LAMB had 1 left over. Calle Ocho 1 left over and Cook 3 left over. So I don't know why you would think it's just LAMB's spots.


DCB matched 36 of 38 but can send up to 50 students. I don't know how this affects interpreting waitlist offers but also not sure it matters much. I think all schools but LAMB and stokes will have larger 5th grade classes next year.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:48     Subject: June waitlist data is up!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Two Rivers (both 4th and Young) will have exhausted their WL in all grades by the time school starts. That is an astounding fall from grace for a once formerly high demand school. It saddens me.


The upper grades and middle were never really high demand. It was built on assumptions about potential that never came through.


THIS. But still, it’s astounding how far this school has fallen on so many levels. My DS was at TRY many many years ago; my impression was that 4th St was decent, but i gather my assumption (and naïveté) were off base.


I think it's still ok. If I had a kid there and a solid middle school plan (e.g. a sibling at Latin or BASIS or lived IB for SH) I probably would not make my kid leave TR.