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I think the emphasis on the fundamentals is part of the uptick as well as the focus on traditional values.  People correctly perceive the school as old school and not “woke”.  The curriculum doesn’t change much in response to social trends and to the extent it does change it changes slowly.  This is true even in non political areas—it took a long time for the school to embrace and emphasize STEM, for example.  And they still don’t call it STEAM 😂😂 That said, it’s a parish school of a Jesuit church so it’s not exactly conservative.  (If you aren’t familiar with the various orders of priests and sisters, Pope Francis was a fairly conservative Jesuit.)  Its Jesuit identity is counterbalanced by the head of school (Mary Larkin) who definitely embraces tradition and (for better and for worse) runs the school with an iron fist.

As for joining the parish, many people do join the parish to improve their chances of getting into the school and many parish members apply and enroll.  I don’t know how many seats go to folks who aren’t in the parish, but that definitely is a factor in what makes it so hard for non members to get accepted even though the school wouldn’t be considered TT.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you. This is all very helpful.

I'm not sure we would go as far as becoming members of the church for a seat. We are a bit cost insensitive and would prefer not to cause friction with a first grade move. We are very focused on traditional values though. From what we heard, we weren't alone on this front, that was a part of the recent bump in applications.

Is the takeaway that we were all vying for 12 or so K spots?

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If you factor sibling and parish member priority that might be the case. The total number of available spots would be higher. They go from one day assessment for Pre-K 3 & 4 to four days of assessment for K, so the application pool is higher at K. 
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