
In 2017, Avenues will open up a brand new facility around the corner that will house their Early Learning Center, as well as a dedicated floor for state of the art science labs and art studios for their high-school students.ĮXTRA FEES: $2,400 for lunches, snacks, uniforms The school begins at age 3 and continues through to grade 12, which means many students stay on after preschool, although those who choose a different primary school have their pick of the litter. (Suri Cruise was one of its first students.) Aiming to prepare its students for an increasingly globalizing world, all preschool graduates will be fluent in a second language, with half of their education taught in either Mandarin or Spanish, and uniforms are worn. New York The Episcopal School in the City of New Yorkīilling itself as "Avenues: The World School," this posh school in Manhattan's Chelsea opened its $60 million state-of-the-art facility in 2012 and immediately shot to the top of Most Coveted lists. Here, we stack up the best preschools from around the country. They all have that something extra-whether the curriculum or the community-attracting the attention of parents, private school admissions directors and, of course, the kids themselves. The country's best preschools boast more than just draconian velvet rope policies.

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Those feeder preschools are highly coveted, so there's a frenzy around how to get in." "However, getting into the right preschool can definitely help get into the right private elementary school, and so on. "It's not a straight line from the perfect preschool to Princeton," says Christina Simon, author of preschool book Beyond the Brochure.

It's fall, which means one thing: preschool application time.įor a certain set of Goyard bag-toting parents, the mythic path from cradle to Columbia is well-established: sign up for a baby group while pregnant, sneak in the backdoor of your preferred school via a Parent-Toddler program, submit applications and sign promises in blood, and finally achieve successful matriculation at a Baby Ivy leading to Harvard, happiness, and beyond.

Forget university the most frenzied applications are being filled out right now in open-concept kitchens and wood-paneled dining rooms from Nob Hill to the Upper East Side.
