Would your child be interested in shadowing anyway? The small school that my kids are at, we initially dismissed at the info session since it did not seem to be what we were looking for at all, but we ended up going with it after meeting with neuropsych on best options for DS and his results which stunned us.

We did have an added issue of DS missing public school cutoff by just one day (and some private schools that were more rigid about that, we ignored). It ended up being nothing like we thought it would be, and the best fit for DS (and DD is there now, and it is working well for her too).