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[quote=Anonymous]I think the social aspect will depend on the specific cohorts at each public/private, but I can share our experience anyway as a data point. Very similar kid. Didn't play the popular sports and had trouble connecting with larger, popular friend groups at our local ES. Switched to private MS for middle school - mostly for the additional academic supports. Kid was able to mature a lot academically with the smaller class sizes but the small peer group was a mess. He just didn't click with any of them in the long run. And completely fell out of previous friend groups from public school. After 1 year, switched back to public for MS/HS and have cycled through multiple friend groups ever since. We did do tutoring for a while, which helped. Public academic supports have been much better than expected and having more options socially has been great. In the end, we regret the private school year but it may have been much different if he found his people there. [/quote]
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