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illustriousPark265 Mar 22, 2025

School open enrollment / statewide enrollment options questions

School open enrollment / statewide enrollment options questions - Lemmy.World

Hi everyone! Our family is moving back to MN in a few months, and we are starting the process of looking into schools. Our son will be 5 next year and will be starting kindergarten in 2026. He’s our oldest, so this is our first rodeo. We’re looking into Nova Classical Academy (Highland Park) and Math & Science Academy (Woodbury). Our questions: 1. How hard is it to get into these schools for kindergarten? (We are not school staff members, and our child doesn’t have a sibling already enrolled in the school.) We realize that MSA’s elementary school is just now being built, and 2026-2027 is the first year they’re enrolling for kindergarten. 2. Is there anything we can do to be more competitive for acceptance to either school? Or is it literally just a random lottery? Does it matter when we apply for the lottery, as long as it’s within the enrollment window? 3. Any experience with either of these schools? We welcome all feedback as we know nothing! Especially if you have a child with mild ASD, we’d love your input. Thank you so much!

illustriousPark265 Jan 20, 2025

Daycare feedback near SE Minneapolis?

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Daycare feedback near SE Minneapolis? - Lemmy.World

Hi everyone! My wife and I have two kids under 4 and are searching for daycare facilities within ~five miles of the Minnehaha Falls area (SE Minneapolis). We are currently considering The Pillars Child Care, Mis Amigos (St. Paul), Círculo de Amigos, and Casa de Corazón (Highland Park). We’re moving back to Minneapolis this June, so we’re doing the daycare search from Arizona, and it’s been very hard to get an accurate sense of each school from so far away. So, if you have any feedback about any of these schools, good, bad, or ugly, I’d be greatly appreciative of your input and experiences. Thank you in advance! P.S. We’re open to feedback about other facilities as well, but we’ve already bypassed quite a few places based on concerning DHS reports. Also, we aren’t specifically seeking Spanish immersion, that just happens to be the program of some good candidates.