Getting into Concord Hill

[Anonymous]

I obviously understand all of the potential variables (siblings, number of kids from primary coming back, etc.), but does anyone have a general sense on how hard it is to get into Concord Hill for Kindergarten? Also, does anyone have a sense of whether they disfavor having boys with summer birthdays start kindergarten on time?

[Anonymous]

I can't speak to the admissions question, but as for the summer birthday issue, Concord Hill does in general favor having an older class (not a hard and fast rule, but a preference that tends to play out). Over the past few years, there have been several cases I know of whereby children applying to kindergarten (girls as well as boys, although more boys) with summer birthdays were asked to attend/apply to Primary (Pre-K) instead. (Again, that isn't uniformly the case and there are some summer birthdays, but not that many.) In most of the classes at the school, a child having a fall birthday isn't even close to being among the oldest in the class because of summer birthdays who were encouraged to hold back a year.

[Anonymous]

Just my experience: although we loved Concord Hill, we turned down an acceptance last year because they wanted my son, an early summer birthday who would be 4 in the fall, to be in the pre-primary (nursery) class. We wanted him in a pre-k program at 4, so we went to another school.

[Anonymous]

I can also attest to CH's preference for red-shirting summer birthday children. When our son was rejected, I spoke to the AD and she told me he was going to be young for the prepimary class, with an early June bday. I think they want older classes because their curriculum, if you can call it that, even in the youngest classes, involves switching class rooms, etc. and they seem to think that requires more maturity.....