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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why you’d apply for k thru 8 for midddle. [b]Unless it’s for back up if you don’t get into a k thru 12?[/b] Why out your kid through the application process twice and make them join a class of kids who all know each other in middle school just to have to leave again in two to three years?[/quote]

k-8 puts the resources in the k-8. Many k-12(specially the big 5) direct the majority of resources to 9-12. These top schools are very different. What you think is a good fit in k or 4th is not by 9th and it is missable for the kid. Many times the kids want a change. They are bored by the same old insular social scene.

Once you have gone through the application processes once it is not really that big of a deal to do it again. Applying for 9th grade is about grades, teacher recs, test scores, extracurricular activities, etc. Doing the application process again in 8th really makes you think about who your kid is and what schools will be a good fit. Plus everyone else in the class is doing.

Bottom line you pick a school for the kid. [/quote]
We’ve been at both k-8 and now k-12 and I’d really disagree with this. My younger kids at a k-12 get to benefit from all of the resources that would never be available at a k-8. The facilities are in a different league, they have access to specific teachers a k-8 couldn’t justify, they get the school spirit of real pep rallies, varsity games, etc. There is tons of interaction between the divisions so even when my kids were little they’d go to a varsity game in their sport and the high schoolers would greet them by name, etc. They still have all the same leadership opportunities and everything bc the divisions have their own heads, student leadership opposition, etc. [/quote]

It’s a personal preference and determination based on what each family wants for their kids. What you share about the benefits of k-12 are exactly what some say are why they do not like a k-12 and prefer a k-8. Some do not want any interaction or influence from high schoolers for lower school students. They don’t want to attend pep rallies or varsity games, because they want the focus on whatever the k-8 students are doing, where at a k-12, the majority of big school activities and events are going to center around the upper school. There is not a right answer here, it is what works for you kid/family. [/quote]

+1. We couldn’t care less about varsity games for kids 10+ years older than ours[/quote]

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