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Norway, the world's 10th-largest oil producer, wants to guarantee every child a subsidized kindergarten spot by the end of 2008.

CAROLINE HALL was supposed to sign the contract a month ago guaranteeing a kindergarten spot for her son at an Upper East Side private school.

They wanted to move before the school year ended, too, so their children could get situated and learn their new routine, and so Dutch could more easily gain a coveted kindergarten spot.

Those children competed for approximately 1,700 kindergarten spots in the city's private schools.

At St. Philip's, applications for the 18 kindergarten spots are cut off at 100.

In addition, to increase kindergarten spots, the city moved prekindergarten classes elsewhere, replacing them with extra kindergarten classes.

"There were 450 parent requests for 37 open kindergarten spots this year," said Ron Machado, the school's principal.

"Jobs were very scarce when I came out of college and I just so happened to learn about a district that had two kindergarten spots open up.

Trinity, among the most competitive schools in the city, received 698 applications for the 60 kindergarten spots in this year's class.

The online application, called Kindergarten Connect, was tested in 2012 in three districts — one each in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan — and "significantly more" parents applied early for kindergarten spots as a result, the city said.

Trinity administrators say their admissions process — only 400 students are interviewed for 60 kindergarten spots — is not first come first served, and they even relaxed their process by removing the limit on the number of applications they would consider.