| Table 1. OSP Applicants by Program Status, Cohorts 1 Through 4, Years 2004-2007 |
|---|
| Cohort 1 (Spring 2004) |
Cohort 2 (Spring 2005) |
Total Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 |
Cohort 3 (Spring 2006) and Cohort 4 (Spring 2007) |
Total, All Cohorts |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 2,692 | 3,126 | 5,818 | 1,308 | 7,126 |
| Eligible applicants | 1,848 | 2,199 | 4,047 | 846 | 4,893 |
| Scholarship awardees | 1,366 | 1,088 | 2,454 | 846 | 3,300 |
| Scholarship users in initial year of receipt | 1,027 | 797 | 1,824 | 712 | 2,536 |
| Scholarship users fall 2005 | 919 | 797 | 1,716 | NA | 1,716 |
| Scholarship users fall 2006 | 788 | 684 | 1,472 | 333 | 1,805 |
| Scholarship users fall 2007 | 678 | 581 | 1,259 | 671 | 1,930 |
| NOTES: Because most participating private schools closed their enrollments by mid-spring, applicants generally had their eligibility determined based on income and residency, and the lotteries were held prior to the administration of baseline tests. Therefore, baseline testing was not a condition of eligibility for most applicants. The exception was applicants entering the highly oversubscribed grades 6-12 in cohort 2. Those who did not participate in baseline testing were deemed ineligible for the lottery and were not included in the eligible applicant figure presented above, though they were counted in the applicant total. In other words, the cohort 2 applicants in grades 6-12 had to satisfy income, residency, and baseline testing requirements before they were designated eligible applicants and entered in the lottery.
The initial year of scholarship receipt was fall 2004 for cohort 1, fall 2005 for cohort 2, fall 2006 for cohort 3, and fall 2007 for cohort 4. | |||||
| SOURCES: OSP applications and WSF’s enrollment and payment files. | |||||