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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]for 5th grade:

Two Rivers
Inspired Teaching
SWS
Bridges
Shining Stars
Hyde-Addison
Brent
Ross
Creative Minds
Cap City
Latin
SWW at F-S

We're at an EOTP school now that our kid really dislikes, but we aren't able to move out of DC for one more year. After that, we'd be happy to stay in the District or to move to the suburbs depending on the lottery. She has some special needs, and is on the immature side. She's a pretty average student and BASIS would not be a good fit.[/quote]

This list seems random too.  Montessori or Latin? Middle only versus HS track? Try to look more long term if you can. Time flies by.[/quote]

We're willing to move for middle school, so going through 8th or 12th is a plus but not a requirement. We're balancing some competing things that we/our kid would like: convenient commute to either our house or jobs, path past 5th grade, no uniform, decent academics, outdoor space and time, racial diversity within the upper grades, small school/classes, special ed services, having friends there, and more. No one school has all of that. So it is a pretty unusual list, but one where each school has something better than our kid's current school and we are optimistic about getting in someplace.[/quote]

Personally I would choose schools that had a HS track over ones that don't.  Because Latin has such a small number of kids admitted each year for 5th (90) and almost half those go to siblings with preference usually, I would put that as my number one.  That way if I didn't get it I would at least be waitlisted.  Putting it so low will get you knocked out immediately if you don't get placed there initially.  Just a thought.[/quote]

But Latin is not our top choice. We'd rather have DD at 2R til 8th grade and then move/go private/see if one of the application schools is a good fit than have her do 5th grade at Latin. I am not sure she's ready to switch classes so many times a day and handle so many teachers' personalities and requirements. She is still really an elementary schooler and not a middle schooler. In fact, that's our major qualm with ITS--they start middle at 5th--and one of the reasons that Shining Stars, which goes through 6th, is appealing.[/quote]

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