Visit & Apply

List of 5 items.

• Step 1- Create an Applicant Account

  • Create an applicant account on Blackbaud, our online admissions portal.  This ensures that you will receive notifications about upcoming admissions events and application updates. *If applying multiple children, please create an account for each child.
  • Submit your online admissions application.

• Step 2- Visit LCDS

  TOUR
  Schedule a campus tour/interview in your Blackbaud applicant account.  
  

  • • Preschool to Grade 2
      • Only parents are required to attend.
    • Grades 3-8:
      • Applicants are required to attend the tour with their parents and guardians.

  
  SHADOW DAY
  Schedule your "shadow day" visit in your Blackbaud applicant account.
  

  • • Preschool to Grade 1: The shadow day visit will be a playgroup session.
    • Grades 2-8: The shadow day visit will be a full school day visit with their current peers.

• Step 3- Application Checklist

  Each Division at LCDS (Early Years, Lower School, Middle School) has a different application "checklist" with different requirements. 
  These requirements are listed in your applicant portal.
  
  Please contact the Office of Admissions with any questions.

• Step 4- Testing/Assessment

  Each Division at LCDS (Early Years, Lower School, Middle School) has different testing or observation procedures to properly assess an applicant's readiness to the grade they are applying.  
  
  These requirements can be found in your applicant portal.

• Step 5- Decision

  A complete application has all required "checklist" components marked as complete.  All completed applications will receive an admissions decision.
  
  As members of the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW), notification of the admissions decision will be released in your applicant portal on Friday, February 27, after 4:00 p.m.