Rising prek3 parent and like others I have lurked on this forum looking for advice. Like other parents, we both work and need a school that can be worked into our commutes. Fortunately, being near H St. that gives us some flexibility, even if the schools in this part of NE are historically hard to get into it was worth trying. And there seemed to be no appreciable difference in ranking them one over the other, so we prioritized convenience in ranking because it means more time together as a family which we value.

We are also perfectly happy with our current care and they run a wonderful preschool program. Would I prefer to save money and send to a public school? Sure. But we are also in the category of people who will leave the region and "go home" when lo is kindergarten age, so getting a lottery spot would be wonderful, but not the end of the world since we don't need to worry about feeders, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Parents I’ve talked to in my Ward 4 EOTP neighborhood are attending our IB (something all the long-time neighbors told us absolutely not to do with our kids when we moved in a decade ago). They’re doing this for convenience now because they plan to move before it matters.

Elementary or middle? Which school if you don’t mind saying?

We just did lottery for the first time (PK3) and put Takoma and Whittier high on the list. Wonder if the mindset for EOTP IB for these schools will impact parents like us who are OOB but are interested.

Find out in three weeks. Nervous laughter.

Anonymous wrote:I hope DC updates the data where kids go to school. Because for what I have seen on my EOTP neighborhood, people are moving out of the city, WOTP or going private, they are not attending their title 1 IB school.

There is data here as well about student commute patterns. https://edscape.dc.gov/page/student-commute-patterns

It is also not helpful to put all schools into two baskets 'Title 1' and 'not Title 1'. There is a tipping point at which schools quickly lose their title 1 status once parents think there is a critical mass of whatever they are looking for. As a parent at a school whose at risk population has decreased dramatically in just the 9 years we have been there, it is crazy how fast things change, and I don't think that is always a good thing. The at-risk set aside that DME is proposing may change that. Anyway -for those of you who like data, that EdScape site has tons of info.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1110151.page

there's data from 2022 here.