Lots of factors to consider, but I'm just going to throw in my 2¢ about this:
I am concerned that a private church-based school is not the real world, where our daughter would have to learn to work with many others in her classroom.
I truly believe this is an unfounded concern. Kids this age need an environment that best meets their needs, not the environment that best approximates the situations they will eventually have to deal with...I truly believe that the best way to prepare a kid for what they will have to deal with is to give them a strong foundation now. They will then have the resiliance to deal with the stressors of life later.
Kids are adaptable -- if she needs to switch to a larger, more varied peer group in a few years, she'll be able to make the switch.
