Q&A
Q&A on Summer Rising enrollment statistics
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4 min
Council Member Rita C. Joseph engages in a Q&A session with DOE officials about Summer Rising enrollment statistics. The discussion covers application numbers, offer rates, waitlists, and comparisons between 2023 and 2024 enrollment.
- 160,000 students applied for Summer Rising in 2024, with 83% receiving their first choice of site
- Approximately 115,000 students enrolled in both 2023 and 2024
- Improvements were made in the enrollment process, resulting in more timely offers to families
Rita C. Joseph
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So how many students applied for some horizon?
Angela Faloye
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A total of 160,000 students applied.
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Uh-huh.
0:31:45
So we had the main round offer.
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And the main round application between March 4th March 25th, there were 138,000 applicants during that period.
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And then We also had an additional 22,000 apply through the waitlist.
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We had the waitlist open the moment we gave out offers in April through the end of summarizing.
Rita C. Joseph
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What percentage of students received their first choice of sight?
Angela Faloye
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83%.
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So that is 91,000 students.
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So let me start off by saying that with the first round of offers, we gave out approximately 110,000.
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Offers.
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Of the 110,083 percent received an offer to their first choice.
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And then but I'll pause there.
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So there's more, you know, story to tell.
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But, again, of the 110,000 offers that we gave during the 1st main round, 83% received an offer to their 1st choice.
Emma Vadehra
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Can I Sure, Joseph?
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Can I just add two pieces of context for that?
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Because as you know, we've worked really hard to think about how we maximize enrollment.
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We this team over here early in the process.
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One thing is both of those numbers went up substantially from last year, which we just wanna call out in part because of changes made in the enrollment process, which we can talk through.
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So Susan mentioned this, but we were able to make offers to 81% of people who applied in that first round.
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We know that's the best time to make offers for kids.
0:33:17
Right?
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That allows families to plan ahead as opposed to through the weightless process.
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Last year, that number was 68%.
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So that's a real improvement in terms of families who knew the end of March, also a month earlier.
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No.
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Sorry.
0:33:29
End of offers.
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I get that right.
0:33:32
End of April, which was also early April, which is also a month earlier than last year.
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Had a lot more families who knew they had a place to go, and then the percentage of those families who got their first choice also went up to 83 from 79%.
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So credit the improvements.
Rita C. Joseph
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Of those students, how many were placed on a waitlist?
Angela Faloye
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So from the main round of 26,000 were placed on waitlist.
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So in fact, waitlist from the main round of goes into parts.
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You have 26,000 who did not get an offer at all, so they were placed on the waitlist.
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And then we also gave students who did not get a favorable offer meaning their top choice, their first offer.
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So if you did not get your your first choice, you will also be placed on your wait list.
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So in total, from the main round, we had 47,000.
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In essence, we believe that even though we gave you an offer, we wanted you to have that opportunity we placed on your wait list that is higher than the offer we gave you.
Rita C. Joseph
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And of those 26,000 that were placed on the wait list, how many got an offer?
Angela Faloye
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So now Overall, close to 4400 for an offer from those from that group.
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So one thing to preface is that or to note is that during the main round offer, in addition to the 110,000 offers that we gave, we gave out additional 2400 offers.
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Now these offers were not to the programs that the families had applied to, but these programs were in the same building.
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And we looked at we were very proactive to say, you know what, if the actual CBO program was filled, where there are other CBOs in that building that had seats.
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So we gave out additional offers during the main round offer.
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So from those 26,000, I would say, total about approximately 400 or was we given.
Rita C. Joseph
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Okay.
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So how many students enrolled in summarizing 2023 and how many were enrolled in 2024?
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Was there a shift in numbers?
Angela Faloye
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In terms of enrollment, so we had for 2023 2024, roughly the same, about 115,000.
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So now this number includes also students who eventually were discharged as well.
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But, again, roughly between both scales, 115,000 students were involved in summarizing.
Rita C. Joseph
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So you exceeded it by 5000 extra students?
0:36:09
Correct.
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Okay.
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In 2024, what was what was the numbers that
Angela Faloye
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So in both years.
Rita C. Joseph
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Both years, the numbers went up.
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Okay.
Angela Faloye
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Exactly.
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Around 115,000 for both years.
