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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] my concern with starting in public and switching is that if we start in public K and find that we want to switch to private before grades 6 or 9, won't there be significantly fewer spots available at the private schools and much less opportunity to get in? It seems like most schools take a whole new class in K but might only have a handful of openings in 1st or 2nd grade because the only openings come from people moving or leaving.[/quote]

This is exactly right.   the K-6/8s don't expand and take kids only through attrition in grades 1-5.    the better K-12s do add two, three or four kids in grades before 4th  (thinking GDS, Sidwell, Maret here).     4th is an entry point for NCS and STA of course, and Sidwell takes several.

OTOH, there are [i]many applicants at 4th[/i], coming from Beauvoir, Primary Day, and Concord Hill (by design), plus kids trying to switch and improve their odds from St. Patrick's, NPS, WES.   [/quote]

This poster, albeit insufferable w/the school-name-dropping, brings up a point to me.  OP--are you trying to get just any old private school or are you shooting for a "top school"?[/quote]

Why is it "insufferable" to state facts?   This post saved OP a lot of time from sifting through these schools' websites and calling these schools' ADs.

If you rather, we could all wander around erroneously believing that [[i]warning:  "name drop" ahead[/i]] Maret accepts 20 new students in 2nd grade every year.    Or that just one or two Beauvoir graduates apply to STA in 4th and the rest go to DCPS.   [/quote]

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