How to enroll
Families who begin in the fall have time to visit more than once.
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Step 1: Get in touch
Call the office, write to us or use the form. A teacher or the office manager answers within a school day or two.
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Step 2: Visit the school
Come to an open house or book a visit day. You sit in on a morning, see the garden and talk with the chair and a class teacher. Children are welcome to come along.
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Step 3: Apply
Applications open in January. The application asks about your family and your hopes for school, and a class teacher spends a morning with your child in the classroom.
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Step 4: Hear from us
Decisions go out in mid-March, by a letter from the chair and a call from a teacher. If a class is full, we offer a place on the waitlist.
Key dates
The admissions calendar
Open houses
October and February
Walk the building, sit with the teachers and ask anything about how the school is run.
- Tour
Visit days
Most Wednesdays, October to April
A morning in a class, then a talk with the chair and a teacher.
Plan a visit - Event
Lantern walk
November
An evening walk for families, with songs and the lanterns the children made.
Applications open
January
For the fall that follows.
- Deadline
Application deadline
Late February
Every family hears at the same time.
Decisions
Mid-March
A letter from the chair and a call from a teacher.
- Deadline
Enrollment agreements
April
Signed to hold a place.
- Event
Spring festival
May
A day on the grass with songs, a class play and a long table.
First day
Early September
Sample dates.
Nondiscrimination notice
Quire School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
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