Pre-School Admission

Please reach out to the Admission Office at (434) 296-5106 or admission@stab.org, to inquire about our Two-Year-Old Program for the 2022-23 school year. Our Pre-School 3's & 4's Program and Junior Kindergarten are currently full.

Learn more about our Pre-School!

Our Pre-School offers programs for two-year-olds, three and four-year-olds, and students benefitting from a bridge from Pre-School to Kindergarten. Our Pre-School embraces our School’s youngest learners in a nurturing environment through interdisciplinary and inquiry-based study to encourage a life-long love of learning, while also emphasizing emotional and social development.

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If you've already started an application, you may continue it here.

More About pre-School

Steps to Apply

Step 1: tour with us! register for an admission event.

Step 2: to start, submit an inquiry, and then
continue your application

Step 3: we will contact you to schedule your Parent/Guardian Interview.

Step 4: Review the complete Application Process outlined below.

What does the Application Process Include?

For the Parent/Guardian

Family Info

Parent/Guardian Questionnaire

Parent/Guardian Interview

We look forward to meeting with you to learn more about your child!

We are following COVID-19 mitigation protocols, to conduct parent/guardian conversations as safely as possible.

Once your Family Information and Parent/Guardian Questionnaire of the online application have been submitted, the Admission officer who manages your child’s division will email you to arrange your Parent/Guardian Interview.

For the Candidate

For the Candidate’s School (if Applicable)

School Records

Teacher Recommendation

Application Fee

Dates and Deadlines

First Round Applicants

January 13, 2022: Application Deadline

February 2, 2022 - Admission Decisions Released

February 16, 2022: Enrollment Contract and Deposit Due

Second Round Applicants

March 15, 2022: Application Deadline

April 1, 2022: Admission Decisions Released

April 14, 2022: Enrollment Contract and Deposit Due

Rolling Admission/Waitlist

April 4, 2022: Rolling Applications Accepted

Two Weeks After Application is Complete: Decisions Released

Pre-School Waitlist

While the Pre-School Program is currently full for 2022-23, families are still encouraged to finalize an application as qualified applicants will be offered a place in the waiting pool allowing for your child to be considered if space becomes available later in the spring or early summer. Those who have been in the waiting pool but not offered a place before the start of the 2022-23 school year (August 24, 2022) will be encouraged to update their application for the following year as those applicants would have priority in the process for the next school year if space were to become available.

Start of 2022-23 School Year

August 24, 2022: First Day of School

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Academics

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Admission Events

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Tuition & Fees

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Day in the Life

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School News

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Pre-School Stories

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Meet Our Team

Stacey Gearhart, Director of Admission for Pre-School – Grade 4

Stacey Gearhart, M.Ed., P. '32 is the Director of Admission for Pre-School – Grade 4, and a member of the Residential Life team. If she had to sum up the School in one word, Stacey would say “inspiring” because she is inspired by the genuine care and concern our students and teachers have for each other.

She earned a B.S. in geology from Washington & Lee University in 2003, and went on to earn a M.Ed. in educational psychology from the Curry School at the University of Virginia in 2013.