FAQ

Little Folks School has a capacity of 68 students enrolled for each academic year.  12 students in our Tiny Folks Program (18 months-2.5 years old) & 56 students in our Mixed Age Program (2.5-5 years old).  

Children typically stay in their mixed age classroom for the duration of their time at Little Folks School. Each year the number of new students in a classroom will vary, depending on that classroom's outplacement from the prior year.  Students newly enrolled for the mixed age program and students progressing from the Tiny Folks Toddler Program are placed in a mixed age classroom. Class rosters are thoughtfully created by the school leadership team, incorporating a variety of factors.  These factors include age, gender, class size, friendships, student personality, and learning profiles.

Class sizes range from 12 to 17 children depending on the physical size of the classroom.

Our Tiny Folks Toddler Program has three full time teachers with a class of twelve children.

The Red, Purple, and Blue classrooms in our Mixed Age Preschool Program all have two teachers. Our largest class, the Yellow Room, has three full time teachers with 17 students. 

It varies from year to year, but usually a half to two thirds of our families live in the Georgetown neighborhood. Many families walk their children to school. Other families come from all over Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.

Children typically stay 2-3 years at Little Folks School but some may stay as long as four years if they begin in our Tiny Folks Toddler Program. 

At Little Folks School, each child is seen and valued for the duration of their time with us. We understand that children move at their own pace and continue to support every child's needs, interests, and development. This continues to be true for children who stay with us until they are ready to go to Kindergarten. Our older students take on leadership roles in their classrooms and set good examples for their younger classmates.  These older students spend the majority of their day in their mixed age classroom where they get the social and emotional benefits of leadership roles and build patience and empathy as they navigate a class of younger children. Classroom teachers regularly plan for open-ended activities that lend themselves to reach all of their students on a variety of levels with opportunities for challenges and extensions. 

To supplement the classroom learning and help our oldest students transition to Kindergarten after Little Folks School, we offer “Transitional Kindergarten," an afternoon program affectionately called TK. This group meets a few afternoons a week and spends time working on pre-academic skills such as memory and recall, letter formation, sound/symbol correspondence, recognizing and forming numerals, recognizing quantities, and more! With same age peers, these students engage in group games that support skill building in concentration, turn taking, and reinforcement of academic skills. Children in this group also take a weekly trip to the Georgetown library where each student checks out a book. Our library trips foster a sense of independence and responsibility while also fostering a love of reading! 

As our students transition to Kindergarten after leaving LFS, we continue to receive feedback that they were prepared and ready!

The majority of our children go on to attend area independent schools, with a small number attending public and parochial schools. We encourage you to check out our Life After Little Folks page to learn more about how we support this transition.