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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a great question, PP. Three come to mind immediately:

1) HD Cooke. It has a lot going for it, including a fully renovated building, a great International Baccalaureate curriculum (with Creative Curriculum for early childhood), and some fantastic teachers, particularly for early childhood (my primary focus). However, the principal who is leaving did not focus on test scores and rejected parent participation. For this coming year, though, the school has a new principal who is fantastic--a former AP at Hearst who also spent 12 years at Ross, during which time it transformed from a primarily OOB school to a school almost entirely made up of IB students. She will bring a clear focus on increasing the quality of instruction within the IB framework and reaching out to the community/parents to make it a school of choice for the neighborhood. I think that it will become much harder to get in out of boundary in the coming years.

2) Marie Reed. We checked out this school this year reluctantly, having been by and seen the truly awful facilities. However, we loved the principal, and the test scores at the school are much better than at, say, a school like Cooke. It is getting harder to get in out of boundary, though it's certainly not impossible. I am worried, though, that what really attracted me and other families to the school was the dynamic principal. He unfortunately is leaving to become an instructional superintendent at Reed. I am feeling grateful we didn't get in there, since really our interest was 100% principal-driven.

3) Seaton. Seaton is a school that did not fill its PK3 classes in the first lottery, and for the life of me I cannot figure out why. It is not far from Garrison, and many people are IB for both right now, but saw quite a few behavior problems at Garrison and NOTHING like that at Seaton. They have a fantastic principal at Seaton, and the instruction seems top-notch. I would definitely check it out, especially if the Shaw location is convenient for you.

Best of luck! I'm curious what other schools might be on this list.[/quote]

Curiou what behavior problems you witnessed at Garrison and what grade were those kids?[/quote]

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