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[quote=Anonymous]I am completely unfamiliar with private school admissions but have begun casually researching for next year and the year after. I have no clue how this works.

What are private schools looking for when it comes to admissions for PK and K? Are they looking at the kid or the parents/family?

Kid is currently in PK3 in a title 1 dcps public east of the park. But he is a late Sept bday, so whenever he enters private, he would be repeating a grade right? We would like that to happen. DCPS doesnt allow red shirting but he would very much benefit from not being so young for his grade.

How important is the teacher reccomendation and is there certain things that these recs should contain or mention? I sorta guess his public school pk teacher writes many of these very often.

We are a two mom family. Is this the kind of diversity that helps in admissions or not so much?

Our child is very very shy and reserved and anxious. He is amazing once he comes out of his shell but this takes a long time and he struggles with anxiety. Part of why we are considering privates is we are looking for a calmer less chaotic environment for him. Is it ok to be open about this or will that harm him in the admissions process?

Many of the excellent schools in town are religiously affiliated. Do parents who arent of that religion send their kids to those schools? Are there Jews at NCS or Beauvior? [/quote]

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