Each admissions season, we take great pleasure in meeting families interested in re-imagining school.
Welcome to Long-View! We look forward to getting to know you and your child.
Our admissions process is designed to help families and the school get to know each other. Throughout the process, you’ll interact with our teaching team, as we do not employ an admissions department. We strive to keep things as simple as possible. If your research leads you to believe Long-View is the right fit for your child, you’ll fill out an on-line application and your child will attend an assessment day, called Demo Day.
Questions? Reach out to us at admissions@long-view.com.
Who should apply?
Long-View kids are ready to learn. They enjoy getting their hands dirty, thinking about new ideas, and meeting people who challenge them. They are persistent with projects and like to work alongside others.
Our best-fit students have strong self-regulation skills, a positive identity as a learner, and are curious and enthusiastic. They have solid reading skills and are excited to be at a school where they will learn to think and be challenged. All Long-View kids show evidence of intellectual motivation and aptitude for rigorous academics. Some Long-View kids already have a love of mathematics, science, and/or coding but others have never had a chance to develop a strong identity in these areas and their parents know that Long-View is the place this can all change.
Long-View families are serious about supporting their children in becoming lifelong learners, and recognize that traditional models of school are no longer effective in producing learning that prepares children to contend with the complexities of the world in which we live. Long-View families very purposefully choose this community because they regard high-quality instruction as essential, and value their child learning within a culture that focuses on intellectual curiosity and collaboration.
We accept applications for 2nd-8th grades.
Note: Up-to-date vaccinations are required for all admitted students.
How can I get to know Long-View and whether my child is a good fit?
Long-View has a unique approach to education. Our website contains an overview, but you can also use social media to get to know us. We use Instagram as a daily news feed for our current parents and we suggest you mine through current and past posts to get a sense of our day-to-day activities, the ethos of the school, and the types of lessons and conversations that make up the Long-View experience.
The best way to get to know Long-View is to attend a Parent Observation Day to see the school in action. Parent Observation Days are offered on select school days through the middle part of the year and are 90 minutes. You’ll hear us talk more about the Long-View model and the assumptions that underlie learning at Long-View, and we’ll observe classes in action. This is the best way to understand the Long-View experience and see what makes it special.
How do I visit the school?
The avenue for visiting Long-View is a Parent Observation Day. These are 90 minute group sessions for adults only. We will be spending significant time in Long-View classrooms — as you can imagine, it really impacts the learning environment if toddlers or babies are in tow; thus we ask that only adults attend these sessions.
We do not do “tours” of the school or Parent Observation Days for individuals. We feel strongly that we need to limit the number of people in our space to honor our current students’ needs, as we have open classrooms filled with learners hard at work. Thus, we have limited spots for Parent Observation Days and cannot accommodate everyone. We suggest you sign-up as soon as the registration opens and add your name to the waitlists once every Observation Day is full.
Parent Observation Days give parents who are curious about the school and considering filling out an application a chance to walk in and out of classrooms and see the Long-View approach and what makes our school so special. We'll start with a brief overview of our model and our philosophy and then together we will observe the learners as they work in their academic blocks, punctuating our observations with discussions around what the kids are learning and how the pedagogy supports that learning. You'll leave with a strong sense of our culture, the level of the academics, the depth of understanding the learners are working toward, how central discourse is to our pedagogy, and why our kids love learning.
Parent Observation Days are 12:00pm-1:30pm:
October 23, 2024
November 6, 2024
November 13, 2024
December 4, 2024
January 15, 2026
One of the things that makes Long-View stand out from the local independent schools is that we have a flat, transparent tuition model.
Long-View's tuition is below the tuition rates of many local schools because you aren't paying for buildings, extra staff, athletics, or a large range of grade levels.
We don't ask you to buy any supplies and we don't fund-raise. That's right! Everything is included.
Annual Tuition for 2024-25: $19,500
Annual Enrollment Fee for 2024-25: $1000
One-Time Tech Fee for 2024-25: $1000
*We do not raise tuition every year and typically our tuition remains stable for several years. However, we do expect to raise tuition for the 2026-27 school year.
Long-View admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national, and ethnic origin in administration of our educational policies, admission policies, and any other school-administered programs.