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Elevate your community with Smart City Kids! From understanding school admissions to tackling child anxiety, our workshops are designed to empower parents, educators, and corporations. Join our workshops to gain invaluable insights and practical strategies!

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A Legacy of Success: 98% of our full-service families are admitted to their first choice school.

Premier Educational Consulting Firm in NYC.

For more than 20 years, Smart City Kids educational consultants have successfully and compassionately guided families through the admissions process. We support families at all stages of their children’s educational journey, from Nursery School through College. We offer wraparound services ranging from educational assessments, parenting support, tutoring, and all areas of the admissions journey. Our in-depth knowledge of Private, Public, Boarding Schools, Special Education Programs, Colleges and Universities is unparalleled. We provide clarity in the complex process of admissions and guide families with warmth, intention, and integrity. Our admissions consultants, all formerly admissions directors themselves, are educators first, and prioritize school fit for each student’s journey in ways that enable them to spread their wings and flourish. We are happy and here to help in every way we can.

Since its founding, Smart City Kids has been a partner to many esteemed organizations in New York City and beyond. We offer a wide range of workshops to comprehensively explain the admissions and financial aid processes from Preschool to College. We partner with Work/Life teams to customize programming to address the needs of each community with a lens toward topics in education, parenting, and well-being. We offer comprehensive support to corporations when they are recruiting new talent by helping to find schools for relocating families.

Smart City Kids works with a wide variety of Independent Schools throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area. From managing placement processes for schools to tailoring workshops, demographic reporting, mapping compliance, and developing growth plans, we provide customized institutional consulting services to meet the demands of a range of programs, from newly established to revered institutions. We develop leadership transition plans, advise on staffing needs, admissions and exmissions processes, marketing, communications, and messaging.

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Adriana Payne

Boarding School Consultant, K-12 Education Consultant, Managing Director

MARIEL KESSEL, MA

College Division

LORELLE BABWAH BRENNEN

College Division

LEILA SMILEY

Smart City Tutors Program Manager

Adriana

“I cannot tell you how fantastic Adriana has been. Her guidance has been invaluable. Adriana has added an incredible amount of value to the process as well as for my husband & me. She has been instrumental in creating our child’s narrative.”

Roxana

Roxana has profound wisdom, knowledge and experience of the admissions process. She truly listens to each family – the parent(s) and the child – and keeps all the various considerations and factors in mind. She ‘got’ us. And that’s pretty amazing!”

Erica

Erica made us feel so much more comfortable that we were doing everything possible to succeed. She taught us all the tricks of the trade, and it certainly paid off.