How to Apply & Key Dates

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• + Apply: Beginners–Kindergarten

  Application steps continued from above: 

  • Ask your child’s current classroom teacher to complete a recommendation form for you. Email/delegate the form to the teacher from within Ravenna. Shady Hill participates in the Boston-Area Common Recommendation Forms which allows your teacher to submit just one recommendation form for multiple schools. If your child has never attended a school, we will waive this requirement.

  • Register for the observational playgroup in Ravenna and complete the visit in January. This visit is an opportunity for us to learn more about your child! They will spend time playing with peers as well as participating in one-on-one time with one of our teachers. 

  
  *Beginner applicants must be 4 years old by September 1.

  **Kindergarten applicants must be 5 years old by September 1.

• + Apply: Grade I–V

  Application steps continued from above: 

  • Ask your child’s current classroom teacher to complete a recommendation form for you. Email/delegate the form to the teacher from within Ravenna. Shady Hill participates in the Boston-Area Common Recommendation Forms which allows your teacher to submit just one recommendation form for multiple schools.

  • Grade III-V: Attend Shady Hill’s observational Admission Day. During this event students will spend time with their peers in a classroom setting and also complete a series of screening tests with one of our teachers. This event will take place in mid-January.

• + Apply: Grade VI–VIII

  Application steps continued from above: 

  
  

  • Ask your child’s current Math and English teachers to complete the teacher recommendation form for you. Teachers help us understand how your child participates in the classroom. Also ask the School Administrator (Principal, Division Head) to complete the form designated for them. The School Administrator helps us understand more broadly how the student participates in the school community and overall program.  Email/delegate the form to these individuals from within Ravenna. Shady Hill participates in the Boston-Area Common Recommendation Forms group which allows your teacher to submit just one recommendation form for multiple schools. 

  • Attend Shady Hill’s observational Admission Day. During this event students will spend time with their peers in a classroom setting and also complete a series of screening tests with one of our teachers. This event will take place in mid-January.