Yesterday, City Schools of Decatur held its pre-K lottery for 190 slots at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center.

As recapped in an email from CSD’s Community Liason Courtney Burnett, “Bright From the Start allocates 9 Pre-K classrooms to City Schools of Decatur that is included in our grant agreement each year.  Class sizes are determined by Bright From the Start.  Currently, we have 4 inclusion classrooms with 20 students enrolled and 5 Pre-K classrooms with 22 students enrolled which totals 190 slots for College Heights ECLC.”

This year, a total of 263 children were involved in the lottery, so 73 children ended up being added to the waiting list.  This is up from 47 children added to the wait list across all of last year.

According to Ms. Burnett, 17 children from last year’s list remain on the waitlist for this year.  With yesterday’s addition of 73 children to the existing waitlist, Ms. Burnett confirmed that “This will be the first year that families who participated in the lottery “probably” will not be offered a slot prior to the start of school.”