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Hi,
We were blown away. Our little one got high scores in reading and math.
skinner west was our top school because we live in the area and we were lucky enough to get in.
Does anyone have any experience with school life there for kindergarten and beyond?
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Its a great school with very limited seats (1 class). I saw they take 30 kids out of 1300 applicants. I have 2 family acquaintances who are also attending with similar scores 99/98 on the test.
That said, it isn’t without flaws. It is honestly more a neighborhood school that happens to have 1 classical class. The neighborhood classrooms are very overcrowded and even if classical classrooms are somewhat capped, overcrowding likely impacts everything else in terms of facilities and space.
It is in a high COL and safe area so id assume most of the students are from high income families in the area but it still has something like 18% students from below poverty line.
The school has strong extracurriculars (somewhat) and the most advanced neighborhood program is supposedly just as good as the classical. I do wonder if the classical program is ever deprioritized due to more vocal voices from the neighborhood parents whose children weren’t able to get one of the SEES seats.
Id really doubt there are ever instances where say neighborhood parents will raise money for activities that classical kids are excluded from but who knows.
I recall some issue a few years ago where the leaders had to disallow parents from a meeting to discuss the classical program and it made some noise. The article heavily implied that the school wanted to discuss ways to support the program while parents pushed to remove/deprioritize it but it wasn’t very clear. You’ll have to attend a few parent meetings to get a sense of how it actually is
There is also a new principal. Shes been there for a while in other roles so not a complete wildcard but still a guess what her stance will be
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