School #1: Phoenixville Kindergarten Center
Cost: Free - Public
Distance: 2 miles away from our house
Bus: Available for half day and full day
Class Options: AM and PM 1/2 day and full-day kindergarten (although full day is only for children who are invited into the full-day program because their testing results show they may need some extra help)
Curriculum: Standardized testing based, no art or music for 1/2 day students
Class Sizes: 19-22 children per teacher (with no aid)
Pros for us: free, close, morning program (because of where we live, he would automatically be in the AM program)
Cons for us: class size, curriculum is extremely standardized testing based, no art or music classes
School #2: Windsor Christian Academy
Cost: $3200/year
Distance: 2 minutes from Dyke's office
Bus: Yes, but not for 1/2 day kindergarten
Class Options: 1/2 day and full day (full day includes an Art and Latin)
Curriculum: Classically-based instruction incorporating the arts into daily and weekly lessons
Class Sizes: 12-15 children per teacher (no aid)
Pros for us: school curriculum - we LOVE classical education and have wanted this to be our means of educating our children since we first discovered it, school/director's philosophy of education, school leadership and teachers, classroom sizes, emphasis on the arts
Cons for us: cost, no bus
School #3: Renaissance Academy
Cost: Free - Public Charter School
Distance: about 5 minutes from our house
Bus: Yes
Class Options: Full day
Curriculum: Standardized testing based with an added emphasis on the arts
Class Size: 26-30 children per teacher and aid
Pros for us: free, close
Cons for us: very long schedule (class goes from 7:50am-3:30pm), class size, curriculum wasn't overwhelmingly impressive, bus options weren't ideal
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