Tours and interviews are held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings throughout the school year. Please click here to fill out an admissions Inquiry Form. Following that, please contact our school office at (310) 451-1332 to set up an appointment.
Online applications are made available to prospective parents following a tour of the school and an interview with a member of our Admissions Committee.
Kindergarten applications are accepted at any time following your school tour, but MUST be returned to Carlthorp School by November 1st of the year preceding your child’s desired entrance to Kindergarten.
To receive an application for grades other than Kindergarten, prospective parents must tour the school and have an interview with a member of our Admissions Committee. Carlthorp School accepts applications on a rolling basis for children in Grades 1-6. Families who have submitted completed applications by January 15, will have the greatest opportunity to be considered for the first round of spaces that become available for the following September. Applicants are kept in our applicant pool/wait-pool and reviewed as spaces arise. In late February, our re-enrollment contracts are due, alerting us to grade level spaces that will become available, but sometimes spaces open up well into the summer. We do not meet or assess 1st – 6th Grade applicants until we know we are likely to have an opening in the appropriate grade.
Official school (instructional) hours are from 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Early care beginning at 7:15 a.m. and special clubs and late care, lasting until 5:00 p.m. are available for students. For the first two weeks of school, Kindergarten students are dismissed at 11:30 a.m.
In addition to our school closure for the summer, Carlthorp School will be closed this year for a week at Thanksgiving, two weeks at Christmas, Presidents’ week, and the week of April 6. We are also closed for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Good Friday, and most national holidays.
For the 2019-2020 school year, tuition is $31,725. There is a one-time new student fee of $1,000. Every year we invite current families to contribute to our Annual Fund, a fund in which 100% participation is the primary goal.
Carlthorp School is committed to having a socio-economically diverse community and Financial Aid is available to students based on verifiable, qualified need.
Because we recognize the benefit of having children from the same family attend the same school, sibling applicants (of currently enrolled students) are given priority consideration. However, siblings must individually meet our admissions criteria; an offer of admission is not guaranteed.
No. Many kinds of students from many kinds of families thrive at Carlthorp School. We seek to enroll students who are joyful learners and come from families who value our Code of Conduct and support our mission and culture. We are a warm and diverse community of eager learners and committed parents. Our most recent Kindergarten class lives in thirteen different zip codes and comes to us from over twenty-two different sending schools.
We are extremely proud of our matriculation rates into the finest secondary schools in the city. Historically, 97% of students have matriculated to the secondary school of their first choice. Our students most often matriculate to the following schools, in alphabetical order:
Brentwood School Campbell Hall School Crossroads School Harvard-Westlake School Lincoln Middle School Marlborough School Milken Community School New Roads School Oaks Christian School Paul Revere Middle School St. Matthew's Parish School The Archer School for Girls The Geffen Academy at UCLA The Mirman School Viewpoint School Wildwood School Windward School
