Possibly moving from SF to Berkeley, preschool considerations
Hello,
So nice to discover this group. Our family of three are thinking of moving to a home in Berkely and wanted to take advantage of the very good school system there. A kink in the plan is that our 2 year old got admission to Katherine Michiels School in San Francisco. It took us a long time get admission and experience tells me getting into anything takes time in the bay area.
Does anyone have advice on a preschool comparable to KMS and how feasible it would be gain admission mid this year? I really dont want to make the commute from Berkeley to KMS every day twice a day ...
Mar 28, 2019
Parent Replies
One of my biggest regrets is moving to the east bay while my son was is a fantastic preschool in San Francisco. Why not wait till your child goes to kindergarten to move?
The UC Berkeley Early Childhood Education program has three different preschools. I'm happy we got placed in Harold Jones in particular for this fall. The Clark Kerr preschool, designed for 4 year olds, has great outdoors opportunities. There's also Haste but it's not as spacious as the other two. As usual there are long wait lists, but because the program serves a lot of mobile academic families there are sometimes last minute openings late in the placement cycle. It's worth joining the wait-list online and emailing the program to see if there might be openings.