For our McT community

As you all probably know, we absolutely love the kids' puclib school in Denver, McKinley-Thatcher Elementary (McT).  The school is very small with just one class per grade and has both a 3yo and 4yo pre-school (ECE) and then grades Kindergarten - 5th.  That equates to about 200 students.

Here, the kids are enrolled in what we hear is the best school in Sevilla, Colegio San Francisco de Paula.  We chose it because:

• we wanted the children to be in a bilingual school (so they'd be surrounded by English half the day as they learn Spanish like the little sponges they are), 
• private school was the way to get the bilingual education, 
• we heard from multiple independent resources that it was an excellent school, and
• we first inquired with them if they had space and they did.

While we are extraordinarily happy with the school and we expected a lot of differences, perhaps the biggest difference is the size.  The school has preschool (called Infantil) all the way up to 12th grade.  And, there are 3-4 classes per grade.  The class size seems to be about 25 students.  Thus, there are well over 1,000 students.

Here's a video of student pickup in the Infantil area.  This is nothing noise-wise and craziness-wise compared to the pickup in the elementary school (Primaria) area.  Will try and capture a video of that one day.