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[quote=Anonymous]My kids attend Gladys Noon Spellman in grades K, 2 and 4.   I think it is an excellent school!   I actually know of more and more parents who are taking their kids out of the local Montessori and Immersion magnet schools to send them to Spellman because it has a great reputation.   It is a Title I school and so gets a lot of extra funds for teaching staff and materials.   There definitely are a lot of kids on Free and Reduced Meals, and  a significant number of ESOL students.   Even so, Spellman's test scores are really high.   Yet I do not feel that they teach incessently to the test.  My own children are in the advanced groups and I feel that the work they receeive is challenging and appropriate.  My kids never tell me that they are bored!

The kids and teachers are friendly.   Behavior issues are dealt with quicklly.  There's a very active PTA.  Administration is very responsive to parents, and the majority of the teachers are excellent.  (As with any school, there are some teachers who aren't that great.   but at least after 2nd grade they departmentalize so the teachers can specialize and kids get a variety of teachers).

The down side of Spellman is that it only goes to 6th grade, and the middle school Cheverly is slated for right now (Gholson) does not have a good reputation at all.    Spellman got a wonderful new principal about 3 years ago; before that there was a really ineffective principal and the school was a mess.   No one would consider it; now a lot of people are choosing it as their first choice.

Other schools in town are St Ambrose, which pulls more from out of the area, and JP Hoyer which is a public Montessori lottery school -- but is likely moving to a building in Landover next August.   After the move they will likely have more room to expand and so chances of getting in might increase.

There's Goddard French Immersion up in Greenbelt; also availale by lottery.

Other private schools nearby include Friends, and a lot of famliies chose CHristian Family Montessori although they have move into DC I think so they aren't really that close anymore.

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