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[quote=Anonymous]We are at West, with a kid going into Kindergarten next year.  Like you, I'm also not as concerned about language immersion - more interested in a good fundamental education.  We've had an overall good experience in the PK years.   I've been mainly looking at the K-5 grades to see what's going on and our friends with elementary age kids there have been pretty happy too.

The building isn't great, but I'm not personally as worried about it.  Even the open classroom thing - I've taken the tour during an open house, and it's not a deal-breaker for me.
I probably have low expectations for communications from a public school.  They're sometime on the ball / sometimes things seem last minute, but it's been good enough for me.
The elementary grade kids have talked about doing SEM projects, so I don't think that's just middle school.  They seemed neat, but I didn't hear much about it for the last half of the year.  I think something happened with the SEM coordinator, so hopefully that will be better this year.
The parent group is pretty good and seems to be getting bigger / more organized each year - very welcoming.  It seems like some number peel off around kindergarten and then upper elementary grades or for Deal middle school.  At least for elementary grades, it doesn't feel like huge amounts of churn.  The last principal had some data / talking points that showed that the kids that started around PK and continued through the upper grades were doing really well on test scores for whatever that's worth.

Powell seems like a nice school too - I'm not sure you can go that wrong either way.

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