Apply to Lower School (N-5)

List of 9 items.

• Age Requirements

  When creating a class, we carefully consider the many dimensions of a balanced early learning or elementary classroom—including students’ gender, personality, diversity, ability, and age range. We give close attention to each child’s development as well as the class configuration. General birthday guidelines are listed below. We are happy to discuss your child’s age and placement at your Child Visit and Parent Meeting.

  
  

  Nursery applicants:
  Applicants to Nursery must turn 2.8 by August 31st of the year they hope to enter Trevor. (Birthday between September 1, 2016 –2018)
  
  Pre-K applicants:
  Applicants to Pre-K must turn four by August 31st of the year they hope to enter Trevor. (Birthday between September 1, 2015 –August 31, 2016)
  
  Kindergarten applicants:
  Applicants to Kindergarten must turn five by August 31st of the year they hope to enter Trevor. (Birthday between September 1, 2014 –August 31, 2015)
  
  Grades 1–5 applicants:
  Applicants to Grades 1–5 must be the appropriate minimum age for the grade to which they are applying. For example, an applicant to 1st grade must be six by August 31st of the year s/he is entering 1st grade.

• Apply

  To begin the admission process, please submit a completed application, along with a $60 non-refundable application fee by December 1, 2019. Kindly contact our office at 212.426.3355 or LSadmissions@trevor.org if your family needs an application fee waiver.
  
  Families interested in applying to our Nursery and Pre-Kindergarten programs for fall 2020, may follow the procedures below.
  
  If you are interested in submitting an application for Kindergarten-Grade 5 after the December 1 deadline, we encourage you to call our office to learn more about the process. Post deadline applications are accepted based on availability of space in the applicant's grade.

• Child Visit / Parent Meeting

  We will contact you to schedule your Child Visit and Parent Meeting. Typically this will happen at least 24 hours after you have submitted the Application, and as soon as we are able to reach you.
  
  The combined Child Visit and Parent Meeting is scheduled for roughly 45 minutes. The visit is carefully designed as a one-on-one interview to meet each candidate individually. Your child will spend approximately 30 minutes with a member of our admissions team. We also meet separately for about 15 minutes with the parent(s) or guardian(s) who accompany the child..

• Opportunities to Visit

  Our Take a Look Parent Tours are an opportunity to experience the Lower School in action, as well as to meet current parents, faculty, and administration. Go to www.ravenna-hub.com to register for a visit. After creating your account, locate Trevor in the directory of New York Schools and click on “upcoming events.”
  
  Dates for our Take a Look Spring Parent Tours will be posted on Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 on www.ravenna-hub.com.

• Confidential School Report Form (ISAAGNY Form)

  The Confidential School Report Form may be sent via Ravenna directly to your child’s school and returned directly to the Admissions Office. This form should be completed after Thursday, November 15, 2019, so that it reflects the first trimester of your child’s progress. You will be able to request appropriate forms through the Ravenna system by assigning the form to a teacher/administrator via email.
  
  A transcript release form may be required by your childs current school to allow the transmission of previous reports. You may print the form and share it with your childs school, as necessary.
  
  All completed forms are due by Tuesday, January 7, 2020.

• Testing

  Trevor does not require testing for applicants entering Nursery through 1st grade. For students entering 2nd–5th grades, we participate in testing programs administered by the Educational Records Bureau (ERB). Students entering 2nd through 4th grade must take the ISEE Primary (Independent School Entrance Exam). Students applying to 5th grade must take the ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam). Contact ERB to schedule a test date at www.erblearn.org.

• Financial Aid

  We encourage families applying to Nursery through 5th grade to complete the TADS (Tuition Aid Data Services) Financial Aid application as soon as possible after submission of the Application for Admission. The deadline is December 1st. TADS applications will be available online at www.tads.com beginning October 1st. There is a single $34 fee of to submit a TADS application, regardless of how many schools receive the financial aid summary report. There are no fee waivers for TADS applications. The Tuition and Financial Aid page of Trevor’s website provides additional information about our Financial Aid program.

   

• Notification

  Trevor Day School complies with the Independent Schools Admissions Association of Greater New York (ISAAGNY) common notification dates. Decisions will be posted in your Ravenna account.
  
  Notification and Reply Dates for 2020–2021
  (For applications and files completed by Wednesday, January 8, 2020)

   

• ISAAGNY Notification Dates

  GRADE ENTERING	NOTIFICATION	PARENT REPLY DEADLINE
  Kindergarten	Friday, February 7	Friday, February 14
  2, 3, 4 year olds	Thursday, February 27	Thursday, March 5
  Grades 1‐5	Not before Tuesday, February 4	Tuesday,  February 25

  
  
  

  GRADE ENTERING	NOTIFICATION	PARENT REPLY DEADLINE Not later than noon on
  Kindergarten/Grade 1	Not before Wednesday, December 4 Not later than Monday  January 6.	Friday, January 10
  2, 3, 4 year olds	Not before Monday,  December 2 Not later than Friday,  January 17	Friday, January 24