Future first lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not be moving to the White House after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, The Post has learned. 
 
 The president-elect’s 46-year-old wife and their 10-year-old son are staying put at the family’s glitzy Trump Tower penthouse so that Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school, sources told The Post. 
 
 “Melania is extremely close to Barron, and they have become closer during the campaign,” said a source close to Trump’s transition team. “The campaign has been difficult for Barron, and she is really hoping to keep disruption to a minimum.” 
 
 Another source said Melania Trump will travel to the White House as needed, but that her primary focus is on Barron. 
 
 “Melania is very supportive of her husband and is fully on board of doing everything that’s needed as first lady,” said the second source familiar with the Trump transition. 
 
 That source said also that there is a possibility that Melania and Barron may move to the White House at the end of the school year, but no plans are in place. 
 
 “She is really devoted to Barron,” said a source close to the family, adding that Melania has not relied on nannies to raise the child and is frequently seen picking the fourth-grader up from his prep school, where annual tuition is north of $40,000. 
 
 The decision to remain in their Midtown home will increase the security presence around Trump Tower — an effort that will involve both Secret Service and the NYPD, an expert familiar with high-level security told The Post. 
 
 “That building is going to become the White House of New York,” said Jim Reese, a former Delta Force commander and president of TigerSwan, a global security company based in North Carolina. 
 
 “The Secret Service is going to have to keep that whole area cordoned off so that some wacko can’t get close and detonate a car bomb.” 
 
 Strict security measures around Trump Tower will remain in place, with two of the five lanes on Fifth Avenue between East 56th and 57th streets closed because of barriers, said officials at a joint NYPD, Secret Service and City Hall news conference Friday. 
 
 Following the presidential election, the area around Trump Tower has turned into a traffic nightmare, with East 56th Street closed to traffic between Fifth and Madison avenues, and shoppers having to go through a security cordon and subject to bag checks. 
 
 Barron and Melania will each have an unknown number of Secret Service agents assigned to them in addition to a driver and armored vehicle to take Barron to school, Reese said. An advance team of agents will swoop down on the school each morning to make sure it’s safe, he added. 
 
 Additional reporting by Daniel Halper ||||| President-elect Donald Trump acknowledges his son Barron after delivering his acceptance speech at the New York Hilton Midtown on Nov. 9 in New York City. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) 
 
 It’s been 35 years since a First Kid has attended a school other than Sidwell Friends, the private school whose student body has included Chelsea Clinton and both Obama girls. The elite Quaker institution in leafy upper northwest Washington has educated many a political offspring, from Vice President Biden’s grandchildren to Al Gore III to both Nixon daughters. 
 
 But will President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, enroll their 10-year-old son, Barron, there? Some educational experts say it’s unlikely. 
 
 First of all, we’re not even sure that The Family Trump will actually decamp from their glittery penthouse spread high atop Trump Tower (where the boy has his own floor) for the relatively more cramped residence at the White House. Which could mean Barron would continue at his current private school in Manhattan, Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School. 
 
 And even if the Trumps do put down roots in Washington, some doubt that the Trumps would pick Sidwell, a school that’s become associated in recent years with the Clintons and the Obamas. “It’s associated with the liberal intelligentsia of Washington,” says educational consultant Steven Roy Goodman, who has helped many a high-profile family navigate the area’s private-school landscape. Ditto the Washington International School, whose internationalist philosophy might not jibe with Trump’s build-the-wall ethos. “I don’t see that as a fit here.” 
 
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 That still leaves plenty of options. Shall we put aside the idea that he’d attend public school, as Amy Carter did? According to D.C.’s enrollment guide, a kid living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., is slated to attend the School Without Walls at Francis Stevens, a public pre-K-8th-grade institution in Foggy Bottom. But despite Trump’s populist bent, he enrolled Barron (and all his other kids) in private schools. 
 
 Starchy uniforms aren’t a problem for the suit-loving boy, whose mom proudly told ABC “isn’t a sweatpants child.” 
 
 And whatever school they land on will benefit from the prestige of schooling presidential offspring, the marketing value of which is more than enough to offset the hassle of a Secret Service presence. 
 
 Goodman says he often counsels parents to look at their own schooling when picking a spot for their children, since that’s most likely to put them in their comfort zone. “Given what I know about President-elect Trump, which is that he comes from more of a traditional, classic background, I think that might lead you to Virginia schools,” he says. St. Stephen’s and Agnes or Burgundy Farm Country Day School in Alexandria or Westminster in Annandale might fit the bill, he says (though a 703 commute may not sit well with the Secret Service). 
 
 St. Albans, the all-boys school near Washington National Cathedral (short commute!), and St. Anselm’s Abbey in Northeast are often mentioned as possibilities for the future First Kid. And the Potomac School in McLean is no stranger to political kids, either — students have included the grandchildren of former vice president Dick Cheney. 
 
 Leigh Ann Cahill, of the consulting group Independent School Options, notes that the Trumps might want a school that’s similar to the one their son currently attends. Columbia (where Barron is either a fourth- or fifth-grader) is a coed, secular school that’s not thought of as one of Manhattan’s academic pressure-cookers. 
 
 The Landon School, though it’s all-boys, could be a good fit, she says, or a “religion-lite” option, like St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day. 
 
 No matter the school, she says, young Barron might experience some “social bumps” after such a divisive political campaign. “He might find that there’s a level of awareness and even commitment among his classmates,” she says. “It’s not necessarily like that in New York.” ||||| Melania and Barron Trump have arrived in Washington, D.C., to live in the White House, after spending the first months of President Trump’s term in New York City while 11-year-old Barron finished the school year. 
 
 Melania Trump posted a photo to Twitter of the view from a White House window on Sunday evening. 
 
 “Looking forward to the memories we’ll make in our new home!” she said. 
 
 Looking forward to the memories we'll make in our new home! #Movingday pic.twitter.com/R5DtdV1Hnv — Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 12, 2017 
 
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 Pres and Mrs Trump and son Barron step off Air Force One on arrival at @JBA_NAFW from NJ. pic.twitter.com/ybwB6MWfx2 — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 12, 2017 
 
 President Trump, who spent the weekend at his golf club in New Jersey, deplaned Air Force One with his wife and son on Sunday evening, according to the White House press pool. 
 
 It was reported last week that Melania and Barron would be joining Trump in the White House this week. The two had stayed in New York City to allow Barron to finish school. 
 
 Melania Trump’s parents, Amalija and Viktor Knavs, were with the family on Sunday evening and are expected to become more familiar figures in Washington. They were living with Melania and Barron Trump in their Trump Tower penthouse in New York City. ||||| Melania Trump, who over the course of the campaign has repeatedly talked of how close she is with her and the mogul's only son together, will remain at Trump Tower with Barron through the end of his school year at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, a source close to the situation told The News.
– The New York Post first reported on Melania and Barron Trump's post-election plans, and now NBC News echos the newspaper: Sources say the two will not accompany Donald Trump to the White House in the immediate aftermath of his Jan. 20 inauguration, but will rather remain largely in Trump Tower until the completion of Barron's school year at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. He'll wrap up the fourth grade in June, per the New York Daily News. The Washington Post earlier this month speculated about which school Barron would end up attending in Washington, DC. For 35 years, the kids of presidents have enrolled in just one: Sidwell Friends. But an educational consultant thinks Trump may look south, and suggests some possible options in Virginia.