Pre-K & Elementary Options & Transfers Application Data School Year 2021-22

The APS Welcome Center facilitated the lottery for Elementary Option Schools/Programs on April 22 and Pre-K Programs on April 23. Families were notified via email and/or text message of their status shortly after each lottery. Students who applied, but were not accepted through the lottery process, will be placed in numerical order on a waitlist. Applications received after the deadline are placed at the bottom of the existing waitlist for the upcoming school year. The data below is as of April 30, 2021 when families were notified of the lottery results.

Additional information is available on the How to Apply page. For any questions or additional information requests, please call 703-228-8000 or email schooloptions@apsva.us.

The following is the application numbers for the 2021-22 school year:

Elementary Option Schools

Arlington Traditional School

Grade Seats Offered Number of Applicants VPI Students Admitted Siblings Waitlisted Students
K 120 349 32 47 196
1 10 148 6 129
2 3 98 4 91
3 8 90 6 75
4 9 59 0 46
5 6 31 2 24

Campbell Elementary School

Grade Seats Offered Number of Applicants VPI Students Admitted Siblings Waitlisted Students
K 72 178 23 18 87
1 10 45 1 32
2 10 23 2 11
3 7 29 1 21
4 12 19 3 7
5 12 8 0 0

Montessori Public School of Arlington

Grade Seats Offered Number of Applicants Satellite Students Admitted Siblings Waitlisted Students
1 21 70 12 6 47
2 0 40 1 37
3 0 30 1 24
4 0 21 0 17
5 0 14 0 13

Claremont Immersion

Grade Seats Offered Number of Applicants VPI Students Admitted Siblings Waitlisted Students
K (Spanish) 48 49 22 12 1
K (Non-Spanish) 48 139 5 32 79
1 (Spanish) 10 4 1 0
1 (Non-Spanish) 0 26 0 20
2 0 13 0 10
3 0 11 0 6
4 0 11 0 8
5 0 3 0 2

Key Immersion

Grade Seats Offered Number of Applicants VPI Students Admitted Siblings Waitlisted Students
K (Spanish) 48 56 22 14 7
K (Non-Spanish) 48 81 5 20 31
1 (Spanish) 8 8 0 0
1 (Non-Spanish) 2 26 2 19
2 4 18 0 11
3 9 17 0 6
4 0 11 0 9
5 15 6 0 0

Seats Offered: number of seats available at each school and/or program based on the Superintendent’s Annual Update to the School Board on enrollment and projections.

Number of Applicants: number of students who applied to each program within the application window (February 1, 2021- April 15, 2021). The same student is included more than once if the family applied to more than one option and/or program.

Waitlisted Students: includes students waitlisted as of May 10, 2021. Please note that waitlist numbers here include the students who applied during the application window and were waitlisted during the lottery.

VPI/Siblings: please note that some siblings are counted twice since they attended the VPI Program at ATS; therefore, receiving both priorities.


Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI)

Elementary School Seats Offered Number of Applicants Students on Waitlists
Abingdon 26 37 1
ATS 48 117 26
Ashlawn 32 15 0
Barcroft 32 34 0
Barrett 42 36 0
Campbell 48 76 10
Carlin Springs 42 36 0
Claremont 32 77 18
Drew 26 27 0
Fleet 32 31 0
Hoffman-Boston 52 71 0
Innovation 16 36 0
Key 32 75 16
Long Branch 16 30 0
Oakridge 12 34 5
Randolph 44 34 0

Number of Applicants: Number of students whose required documents were verified by school options within the application window as well as late applicants (February 1, 2021 – April 15, 2021) and participated in the lottery. The same student is included more than once if the family applied to more than one option and/or program.

Waitlisted Students: Includes all students waitlisted as of May 10, 2021. Please note that families might choose to be waitlisted for the program they want to attend and decline an offer for a seat at a different school.


Pre-K Montessori

Barrett Elementary School

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Siblings Waitlist
3-year-olds 9 57 0 18
4-year-olds 5 47 2 12
5-year-olds 1 26 0 15

Carlin Springs Elementary School

 Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Siblings  Waitlist
3-year-olds 6 59 2 25
4-year-olds 2 25 0 9
5-year-olds 1 21 1 8

Discovery Elementary School

 Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Siblings  Waitlist
3-year-olds 16 62 2 21
4-year-olds 9 51 0 24
5-year-olds 2 18 0 9

Fleet Elementary School

 Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Siblings  Waitlist
3-year-olds 14 102 1 45
4-year-olds 7 89 1 51
5-year-olds 0 41 1 29

Jamestown Elementary School

 Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Siblings Waitlist
3-year-olds 21 60 0 21
4-year-olds 18 73 0 31
5-year-olds 0 19 0 14

Oakridge Elementary School

 Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Siblings Waitlist
3-year-olds 9 75 0 36
4-year-olds 8 56 0 33
5-year-olds 0 39 0 24

Montessori Public School of Arlington

 Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Siblings Waitlist
3-year-olds 61 195 9 111
4-year-olds 20 191 11 122
5-year-olds 11 151 11 114

Waitlisted Students: Includes all students waitlisted as of May 10, 2021.

Please note that the same student could be counted two times if the family applied to Montessori Public School of Arlington and the Montessori Program serving their neighborhood school.


Community Peer Pre-K (CPP) Program

Alice West Fleet

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 3 12 1
4-year-olds 3 9 4

Barcroft

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 3 9 1
4-year-olds 2 5 0

Carlin Springs

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
2-year-olds 4 18 0
3-year-olds 5 11 1
4-year-olds 5 1 0

Dr. Charles R. Drew

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 4 9 0
4-year-olds 3 5 2

Glebe

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 2 4 0
4-year-olds 2 13 8

Hoffman-Boston

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 4 10 3
4-year-olds 2 11 3

Innovation

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 3 11 1
4-year-olds 4 7 0

Jamestown

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
2-year-olds 9 57 18

Nottingham

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 7 2 0
4-year-olds 7 7 0

Taylor

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 3 4 0
4-year-olds 3 12 7

Tuckahoe

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
3-year-olds 6 1 0
4-year-olds 7 8 2

Non-Neighborhood Applicants**

Age Seats Offered Number of Applicants Waitlist
2-year-olds 0 38 34
3-year-olds 0 25 14
4-year-olds 0 20 8

** Available seats at the neighborhood CPP programs will be filled with students from the non-neighborhood waitlists after the neighborhood waitlists have been cleared.
Waitlisted Students: Includes all students waitlisted as of May 10, 2021.