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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?!  Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks.  Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program. [/quote]
Was 76 the final total?  I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.[/quote]

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right? [/quote]

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.[/quote]

That comparison is misleading.  As the question indicated, Montessori's age/"grade level" groupings are such that 1st grade is the start of the next grouping; so there is likely to be a higher # of applications for 1st grade when pre K Montessori students complete kindergarten.  Claremont is an immersion program which, like Montessori, prefers previous experience in the same instructional focus.  ATS is just ATS and I wonder if its 1st grade applicants crossover with the Montessori or other choice program applicants.

So many complaints about the cost-per-student for the new HB Woodlawn facility.  Yet, what's the cost-per-student for Montessori?
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When you factor in the summer intercession for Barcroft and Spanish immersion, it's about the same as those programs is what I've heard. [/quote]

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