Private school Kindergartens that might still have openings for fall?
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| Last minute change and looking to go private for K this fall. Background: we expected our son would follow his siblings to public, but end of Pre-K year it's become apparent our MCPS public elementary could be really hard for him (7 classes, high ratio), as he has some challenges with anxiety and the size of that place is enormous. Great for our other kids, but would crush him now. Our preschool has recommended we look into a private, smaller with more attention, but of course it's so late to try to find something. Appreciate any guidance, either schools or if you have had kid in similar situation. We are Catholic btw - not averse to a Catholic school, though we are not especially conservative. |
Anonymous
| Where are you located? |
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| Chevy Chase, but can be pretty flexible with range/dropoff/pickup into Bethesda/NWDC, and I suppose outward to Potomac/Rockville if needed. |
Anonymous
| The Avalon. It is certainly conservative and with very observant Catholic families but very warm and nurturing. They also have a lot of outdoor time. |
Anonymous
| I wasn't impressed with Avalon. We opted to stay public but I liked Holy Cross the best. |
Anonymous
| I would check at St Barts, Christ Episcopal, Geneva Day, St Elizabeth's, Stone Ridge. |
Anonymous
| Do you have any firsthand experience with Geneva Day? That's one nobody has mentioned to me yet. The drive up 270 would be challenging, but it looks very warm on the website at least. (oh and unless Stone Ridge is changing dramatically, I don't think our son will be accepted there!) |
Anonymous
Yes my kids were there for preschool, and we had a wonderful experience. Whoops! Somehow missed you had a ds!! |
Anonymous
| Washington Episcopal School has openings for kindergarten |
Anonymous
Our Lady of Lourdes is a sweet school. Grace Episcopal would be another option. |
Anonymous
Stone Ridge is coed through Kindergarten. But I wouldn't send my kid somewhere that would be for just a year. I'd at least want the option of continuing. |
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WES is great. Call them. |
Anonymous
In that case Geneva Day is not a good option bc it goes to K. |
Anonymous
I think Geneva day ends at K? |
Anonymous
| I don't know that we would be totally opposed to just doing one year at a private, if he gets more on track emotionally and academically, we could see moving him back into public (I know that will strike some people here as insane.). So I don't think that excludes Geneva, and I had no idea SR was co-ed in younger grades. I hear good things about WES - probably the thing that scares me most there is going *and* liking it so much we're trying to figure out how to cough up $35k and up for the next however many years. We have capacity to do what we need right now this year, but staring down the barrel of 8 or 12 more is a little scary (again, I know that many on here that's no big deal.) |