SY 21-22 Lottery Results and Waitlist Data

On April 2, My School DC released the results of the SY 2021-22 lottery. The results show that the largest declines were in pre-K 3 and in nonentry grades, indicating an interest in continuity if a student was already enrolled in a school. Overall, there was a net decrease in the total number of applications submitted, that was to be expected based on local and national enrollment trends.

According to DC PCSB staff analysis, waitlists across all public charter schools totaled 17,047 students, with 7,822 individual students on waitlists to attend one or more PK-12 public charter schools in SY 2021-22.  

Our analysis shows:  

·   Public charter schools offered a total of 12,990 seats across programs and enrolling grades in the SY 2021-22 lottery.

·   Roughly 75% of applicants on waitlists are waiting for a seat at a Tier 1 (based on 2019-20 tier results) public charter school.  

·   There were 6,032 Tier 1 (based on 2019-20 tier results) seats available to students in the lottery; of these Tier 1 seats, 2,439 (40%) were available for PK3 applicants.

·   There continues to be demand for public charter school seats in PK3, PK4, and kindergarten, with waitlists totaling 8,076  seats for these grades across public charter schools. Since many students are on multiple waiting lists, the total represents an unknown number of duplicates.

·   Grades PK3, PK4, kindergarten, 6, and 9, make up 64% of the total waitlist in the SY 2021-22 lottery.

·   Latin American Montessori Bilingual PCS had a total of 1,548 waitlisted students, the longest waitlist of any public charter school program. 567 of these students were on the waitlist for PK3 across the campus’ two sites.

 

Lottery Seats and Waitlist Offer Data 

·   Waitlist results can be filtered by grade and campus here. 

o   This SY 20-21 waitlist data includes families who applied to the lottery by the PK-8 deadline of March 1, 2021, and high school deadline of February 1, 2021.

·   For the most current information on waitlist lengths, please reach out to schools directly.