The
other 73 percent applied through a lottery to attend a
school other than their in -
boundary option, which breaks down across different options (aside from in -
boundary)
as follows: 46 percent of
public school students attended a
public charter
school, 21 percent attended an out - of -
boundary DCPS
school, and the remaining 6 percent attended
other DCPS
schools [1](Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), 2017).