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[quote=Anonymous]Strongly agree with Mumsnet suggestion!

We spent a year in Oxford when our kids would have been in 4th grade and 8th grade in the US. Smaller city of course, but has a range of excellent private schools and a complicated  state school system. If we have sent the kids to state schools, placement would not have been determined until the start of the school year, potentially with terrible commutes. Our experience was that nearly all private schools were very open to late applications from transients; both kids loved their schools; the tuition was pleasantly low compared to here; curriculum did not line up with the US but that ended up being fine, and actually the focus on skills often ignored in the US has served both of them very well.

Missing 8th grade in the US system is pretty meaningless, and it’s comfortably in between starting secondary school and taking GCSEs in the UK. After that you’ll need to decide which system your kid is really in, which country’s universities they are being prepared for. IB might be a strong option if you will continue to have geographic uncertainty.

(Due to different birthday cutoffs our older kid actually was put into the equivalent of 7th grade in the UK, was one of the oldest in her year there when she’d been one of the youngest in grade at home, but when we got back to the US we just said “she was in YEAR EIGHT,” which was true, and no one realized or cared; off she went to 9th grade.) [/quote]

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