Parents who were unable to secure a nursery seat for their children last year will have to continue their hunt for a school seat well into March/April this year as per the KG-admission schedule released by several popular private schools in the city.
While most claim that they may not actually open for KG admissions this year, others say that they will take in students depending upon seat availability which can be assessed only after the nursery admission are over.
Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan and Pusa Road, will open for KG admissions only by the third week of March. “Since the basic entry to the school is at nursery (3 plus) stage, there are very few windows of entry to the school. Most parents refer that the child continues in the school and we have very few vacant seats for KG then. Parents will need to check back with us in the third week of March to see if there are seats available for entry to KG,'' said Springdales School (Pusa Road) Principal Ameeta Mulla Wattal.
Most popular schools refusing to give out the exact number of seats available in the KG have asked the parents to follow the policy of watch and wait. “All the parents seeking admissions for the children to KG have been advised to leave an application at school and then wait for a call from the school,'' said Sumit Vohra, founder of the website nurseryadmissions.com which is a portal helping parents seeking admissions to various schools in Delhi.
Schools including Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Sanskriti School and Bal Bharati Public School, Pusa Road, are asking parents to apply and wait for a vacancy.
“Most of the popular schools in the city are not taking in fresh admission in KG saying their seats are full with nursery batch promoted to KG. Besides a few schools that start admissions in KG for a child who did not manage to secure admission in nursery, seats are few and far between. Several schools like Delhi Public School, Springdales and Mother's International has not opened admission in KG yet. Some of them may have one or two vacancy in KG provided existing students in nursery withdraw,'' said Seema Kohali, who is seeking admission for her four-year-old daughter.
