One of the many reasons we chose Logan for her is because it offers a conducive home for 4-year-olds with Sep-Dec birthdays who might be academically ready for traditional K but not socially or emotionally ready. Logan combines two years of students at every level all the way up to 8th grade. Lower Primary is made up of 4-6 year olds, Upper Primary classes consist of both 1st and 2nd graders, and so on. The absence of a strict “Grade” structure allows teachers to move kids up and hold kids back based on the natural development of each child, with few social implications, given the structure. We value the very concrete commitment to community, diversity, philanthropy, and individual initiative – and these often come wrapped up together in one long experience, followed by another.

An example: The Lower Primary classes sell cards for the Gathering Place, a Denver non-profit that aids low-income women and families. Nothing new…but the 4-6 year olds tour the Gathering Place at the start of the year, operate their “card shop” every Monday at Logan (4 students at a time – they practice all the skills earlier in the day with their classmates), make change, record the sales, tally the sales, and then take the proceeds themselves to the Gathering Place each week, meet and chat with the women who make and directly benefit from the sale of the cards, pick out new stock, and a new crew takes over the next week. The students take photos, draw pictures and journal about their experiences and publish this collection as a class book to document and reflect back on their learning.

This is reflective of the approach Logan takes to learning generally – wholistic, deep, analytical, experiential. Our child has always been a little querky relative to her peers – though many at Logan might describe their child that way, we were happy to find there is quite a range of personalities and temperments among the kids at Logan. It’s a small enough school that the big kids know the little kids by name and visa versa – a big/little buddy system helps tighten those bonds. If we can afford to, we’ll stay. The norm seems to be East High School post-Logan.