Lotteries and Waitlists
A parent of an incoming kindergarten student wrote to me about issue she was having with Enrollment. Based on reading the Enrollment policy and speaking with different Enrollment staff, she believed that the only tiebreaker for the lottery into neighborhood schools is siblings. (It seems she wanted to put her child into a non-attendance area school. The lottery was held and she was told that she was #4, and then, #3 on the waitlist. Now, weeks later, she finds that her child moved down the list and another child moved up the list. She is baffled how that happened. I have a query into the District but... Did this happen to anyone else? Any thoughts on why this might have happened? FYI, here the waitlist by school . There are some interesting numbers.