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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ludlow Taylor to Stuart Hobson without question. (Most elementary schools are good, but most middles have a long way to go.)[/quote]

Maybe. We have several friends bailing on LT in the upper grades due to lack of challenge.  If your kid is just a toddler, the school's demographics may have changed enough by the upper grades for you to be happy with the experience.
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Interesting...we are IB for LT/SH and my upper ele kid doesn't attend because when he started, LT wasn't what it is now, not by a long shot. We have many neighbors who have kids PS-1st who are there and extremely happy. And we also have many friends who plan on sending their kids to SH next year and are excited about it. We are in a charter that goes through middle so haven't looked as closely as some others may have, but I know SH is getting a lot of positive buzz both for their honors programming and their arts. I suspect LT's upper ele is still largely OOB but that it will change over the next few years and the younger crowd moves up.

Agree with PP that if you can stomach lottery or a move for middle that [b]Brent certainly has the best reputation on the hill. [/b]We have friends at Watkins who feel their child is quite behind due to lack of rigor and structure.[/quote]

That might have been true 5 - 10 years ago, but not any more.  It's a great school, but I don't think anyone would say it's the "best" school anymore.  Which can only be a good thing!

If I had the choice to move anywhere on the Hill and my kid was just 3-4, I'd pick the house first and school second, out of any of the good options we are lucky enough to have now, and worry about middle school later.  If my kid was older and MS were closer in time I would focus more on middle school and look for something zoned for Stuart Hobson.  [/quote]

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