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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an earlier poster, not the last one, but we do have kids at SSMA.

For middle school we'll just rank all of the acceptable charter and public middles for the fifth grade lottery, apply and hope for the best.  If we don't get in for fifth, we have a year and the means to at least pay application fees to parochial schools, as well, and we'll have to make a decision about cost and fit at places like that if it comes to it.

We could also have moved by then, or there will be a new charter middle available, or one of several other things.  I hope you don't think I'm being snarky either, but I think that a lot of people on this board with kids below, say, third grade place a LOT of emphasis and worry about middle-and-high school paths.  Unless you've got a 3rd/4th/5th grader, I say pick a place where you actually like the younger elementary set-up and then worry about crossing that bridge closer to the actual date of arrival.

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Thank you.  I really appreciate knowing, as DD has a sort-of-ok number for K at SSMA and I'm not sure what to expect.  I do think preschool parents stress too much about this, but for K or 1st, I think it's a fair concern.  Do you find that the 4th-6th classroom loses a lot of kids, and is the experience negatively affected?[/quote]

Right now, it's very hard to tell. The school has greatly expanded the primary classes (seven now I think), but is much more limited in size in the upper grades. They've added multiple of the primary classrooms in the last two years with their move to the permanent location, so the younger kids are simply not old enough yet. [/quote]

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