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3-K and Pre-K enrollment process and offer letters
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Council Member Justin Brannan inquires about the 3-K and Pre-K enrollment process, including the timing of offer letters and application statistics. Deputy Chancellor Simone Hawkins and Chief Enrollment Officer Trevonda Kelly provide detailed information on the process and outcomes.
- Pre-K offers were released on May 13th, while 3-K offers are scheduled for release later on the day of the hearing
- For Pre-K: 51,613 applicants received 55,582 offers
- For 3-K: 43,206 applicants received 44,386 offers
- 65% of applicants received their first choice
- 85% of families received an offer from their application list
Justin Brannan
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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I wanna I wanna stay on early childhood for a sec.
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On three k enrollment, the letters came out today I believe?
Simone Hawkins
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They will be released today, later this afternoon.
Justin Brannan
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Okay.
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Were they delayed for some reason?
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No.
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I thought there was an original date of the fifteenth.
Simone Hawkins
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So pre k offers were released last week, I believe on the twelfth?
Justin Brannan
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The
Simone Hawkins
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thirteenth.
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The thirteenth.
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Thank you, And three k was always scheduled for today.
Justin Brannan
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Okay.
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How many people applied?
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How many people will be getting seats?
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How many are waitlisted?
Trevonda Kelly
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Good morning.
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Trevonda Kelly, chief enrollment officer.
Justin Brannan
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Good morning.
Trevonda Kelly
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In terms of applicants for pre k, we had 51,613 applicants.
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We made offers to all of those applicants totaling 55,582.
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For three ks, 43,206 applicants and again we made offers to every applicant totaling 44,386.
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In terms of the waitlist, the waitlist question in terms of how many people were added to the waitlist, what we can say is that 65 of applicants actually received their first choice, which means that those are the families who did not, they were not added to the waitlist because the way that the waitlist works, if you don't get your first offer, then we add you to the waitlist for all of your other preferred choices.
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If you get your first offer, then we assume that that was your most preferred choice and so therefore you're not added to the waitlist.
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So in terms of how many families are on the waitlist right now for a more preferred program, it will be everything outside of the 65% who got their first offer, their first choice, excuse me.
Justin Brannan
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And, do you have a sense of how many got offers that were close to their home where they live?
Trevonda Kelly
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Well, on preference, 65% of them got something that they wanted which was their first choice.
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85% of families actually got an offer off their application, so when we're talking about the 15% who we actually place offers manually made an offer to them that was not on their application, there are a small percentage of families who do not get something that may not be close to home.