Third grade spots at Sidwell...how many?

[Anonymous]

if it is an expansion year, does anyone know (current or former parent) what that means in practice? One more class of 20 added? Less?

[Anonymous]

It is an expansion year. Acc to NCES statistics, they typically add 16 kids to produce a third-grade class of 64.

[Anonymous]

OP here...is third grade a time when a lot of public school kids make the switch?

I am trying to gauge how competetive those 16 spots would be...as bad as the K year or equal??

[Anonymous]

I think not as bad for a few reasons... don't have as much of the gds maret beauvior competition and at 3rd grade i think its a little more about the child's achievement then the parents. I could be wrong but thats my intuition.