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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have several friends at ICS and I don't remember them commenting on the huge wait list the way, say, Trinity Christian School does. We're at TCS and even there the wait list moves. Sometimes it even moves mid-year due to military transfers.[/quote]

DP, and wait-listed for TCS.  Do you have any more insight into how many are on the waitlist and how much it could move?  I'd rather not say what grade, but for the lower school.  We really love the school![/quote]

They haven't said for this year, but last year ~200 were on the wait list and about half of those were kindergarten. I do know the school retained 94% of current students (not including seniors, of course).

How the list moves [i]really[/i] depends on grade. Some lower school grades are merely 2 classes and some are 3. We had friends who are now at the school who stayed on the wait list through an entire additional admissions cycle before finally getting off and know of people who have been on the list for over a year (it's relatively easy to stay on the list for multiple years). That said, one of my lower school kids had a classmate join mid-year. Sometimes spots open up, and they don't always give the spot to a kid in the same grade as whoever left. Because they stay right at the 750 student cap given them by Fairfax County do to their septic system, if a spot opens up they may give it to a student in a different grade who they think will flourish best at the school.

They really do focus on family fit, and they seem to do a pretty good job with it.[/quote]

Thanks for the insight!  [/quote]

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