Independent rankings of Independent (non-religious) Elementary schools in Manhattan with Language Immersion programs, built from director interviews and verified data — never from school payments.
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AdmitCompass tracks 14 independent (non-religious) elementary-level schools in Manhattan. Annual tuition ranges from $59.5K/yr to $65.8K/yr, with a median of $62.5K/yr across schools that publish a number. New York has the highest concentration with 14 schools.
Elementary admissions decisions tend to weigh family fit and developmental readiness more than test scores. Most schools assess via a play-based visit at age 4-5 and rolling interviews for K-5 transfers. Every school is re-verified through direct outreach to admissions teams; data is refreshed on a 180-day cadence and timestamped on each profile.
See also: Learning Support, Gifted, IB (International Baccalaureate).
We rank by how well each school fits your family — academics, cost, distance, and values. Never by size, popularity, or payment (schools can’t pay for rank). The coarse admission-likelihood band is always free.
New York·New York County·Grades K-12·~1,330 students
Director-verified · NCES
A stretch — we’ll show you how to make the application stronger.
New York·New York County·Grades K-12·~760 students
Director-verified · NCES
A stretch — we’ll show you how to make the application stronger.
New York·New York County·Grades N-12·~700 students
NCES
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
New York·New York County·Grades K-8·~171 students
NCES
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
New York·New York County·Grades PK-12·~720 students
NCES
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
New York·New York County·Grades K-8·~479 students
NCES
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
New York·New York County·Grades K-12·~770 students
NCES
A stretch — we’ll show you how to make the application stronger.
New York·New York County·Grades K-12·~780 students
NCES
A stretch — we’ll show you how to make the application stronger.
New York·New York County·Grades N-8·~460 students
NCES
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
New York·New York County·Grades K-12·~650 students
NCES
A stretch — we’ll show you how to make the application stronger.
Built relationships, not scrapers. AdmitCompass ranks schools using a composite score that blends four signals: enrollment size (a proxy for stability and program breadth), tuition reasonableness within the local market, freshness of our most recent verification, and a small bonus for schools with full admissions detail published on their profile.
Public data comes from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and each school's own admissions pages. The information that actually matters to most families — acceptance rates, deadlines, what a director cares about — comes from direct interviews with school directors and admissions coaches across our active markets.
We do not publish scoring weights or per-axis thresholds. That keeps the moat intact: the rankings reflect actual conversations with people inside schools, not a formula anyone with a crawler could clone. Every profile is re-verified on a 180-day cadence, and the "last updated" date is timestamped on every school page.
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