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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids are at GDS and quite a few kids came into GDS from Beauvior for 4rth, (the prior heads of both GDS and Beauvior were married to each other, and that seemed to result in quite a common pathway for kids going from one to the other). As one of the PPs said, the lower school of GDS and Beauvior, in the classroom, are really more similar than different from what all the families that did this switch at 4rth said. Both are "progressive", full of smart kids from high-expectation families, and both are quite committed to not pushing kids to do too much too quickly, and neither seems to give ridiculous amounts of homework or busy work in the early grades. The average family at GDS vs B is going to perhaps be more liberal, more likely to be a Democrat, more likely to be Jewish, but the kid's experience is going to be really very similar.  Our experience there with one boy and one girl has been excellent, and we are beyond the LS now, didn't love the prior LS head who had been there forever, but hear the new one is very good.

I also agree with PP however that predicting how easy it will or won't be to get into Sidwell or GDS at 4rth from B is really hard. Even if your son turns out to be an incredible student in every way and tests well, the number of kids that get in at that entry year is pretty small in both schools (less than 10 I believe) and particularly if there happen to be lots of kids from B that year that want coed, it could be very difficult. There could be siblings, sex ratio issues, faculty kids, many reasons that no matter how strong a student your son is that he might not get into either Sidwell or GDS.  If he really is a strong student, getting into St As from B more of a certainty just because so many more slots for 4rth. So depends some on how sure you are that you want coed.

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