Deciding where to send your child to school or preschool is one of the hardest decisions we make as parents, and, as I am discovering to my chagrin, it does not necessarily seem to get easier - my second grader is now attending his fourth school since kindergarten.
So I am putting out a call for parent reviews of all area schools - private, charter or CPS, preschool to high school. We are interested in hearing about any school attended by children of UChicago graduate students.
In time, I hope this will become a vital resource for student parents moving to the area, so please encourage fellow parents to contribute! We gratefully welcome reviews by non-student parents too, although we are mostly interested in those schools that are attended by student parent families. Some schools appear to be mostly beyond the reach of grad student families, but if there are such families who have found a way to enrol their children at the Lab School, for instance, it would certainly be interesting to hear about that.
Here is an initial, partial round up of schools we are hoping to have reviewed - please volunteer!
Preschools:
Bright Horizons
Chicago Child Care Society
Parent Coop for Early Learning
CPS pre-K program at Ray Elementary
Ancona
Akiba Schechter
K.A.M.
Elementary:
Ray (CPS)
Bret Harte (CPS)
Shoesmith (CPS)
Carnegie (CPS)
Carnegie Regional Gifted Center (CPS)
Lenart Regional Gifted Center (CPS)
Ancona
Akiba Schechter
So I am putting out a call for parent reviews of all area schools - private, charter or CPS, preschool to high school. We are interested in hearing about any school attended by children of UChicago graduate students.
In time, I hope this will become a vital resource for student parents moving to the area, so please encourage fellow parents to contribute! We gratefully welcome reviews by non-student parents too, although we are mostly interested in those schools that are attended by student parent families. Some schools appear to be mostly beyond the reach of grad student families, but if there are such families who have found a way to enrol their children at the Lab School, for instance, it would certainly be interesting to hear about that.
Here is an initial, partial round up of schools we are hoping to have reviewed - please volunteer!
Preschools:
Bright Horizons
Chicago Child Care Society
Parent Coop for Early Learning
CPS pre-K program at Ray Elementary
Ancona
Akiba Schechter
K.A.M.
Elementary:
Ray (CPS)
Bret Harte (CPS)
Shoesmith (CPS)
Carnegie (CPS)
Carnegie Regional Gifted Center (CPS)
Lenart Regional Gifted Center (CPS)
Ancona
Akiba Schechter
St. Thomas the Apostle
