Preschools in the city

Roco&Leche

We are starting to look into preschools.  Any good recomendations?

mbs79

From what I hear, look at the high school where you'd like for your child to go.  Work backwards from there.  In Chicago, schools feed into other schools.  Picking the best preschool can lead to a great grammar school and then onto a top high school.

darlawoods

What curriculum are you considering?

Montessori- Near North Montessori

Other:

British School of Chicago

Lab of University of Chicago

Latin 

Roco&Leche

we are in the south/west loop so something in that area would be idea.  We are open to different learning environments but dont want to pay an arm and a leg.  Latin is close to $23K...not really something I feel comfortable paying. 

noonecarewhoiam

Where do you live and what are you looking for?

Most of the CPS schools have preschool under the "Preschool for all" program. It may be only 2.5 hours a day, but it's free. some other CPS schools have tuition-based preschool--you can find more information on the CPS Web site.

FYI, Latin, Parker, Lab et al will set you back $15k or so a year.

mbs79

Working with products of the schools, I have seen great products from the British School.  I don't know if they have Pre-K but Francis Xavier Ward is a great school in the loop as well as Ogden.

noonecarewhoiam

What is your neighborhood school?

depaulhottie82@aol.com

Might want to Bump it

dlt123

skinner offers a tuition-based pre-k in the west loop. It is in a separate building from, but close to, skinner elementary. Skinner is a 10 rated school in cps. I have subbed there for both pre-k and k. Pre-k program seemed good, but problem w k is that the class was overcrowded. Hopefully that is something they have fixed/are fixing.