Business of Boarding Schools
Private School Financial Aid: Are We Eligible?
Our new infographic, Can We Afford Private School? (see below) provides a quick look at where your family might fit in the private school financial aid equation. In partnering with School and Student Services By NAIS (SSS), we’ve taken the regional cost of living adjustments and data used by SSS to calculate estimated family contributions toward tuition and [...]
Read MoreNew Military School Set To Open In August 2012
Forest Hill Military Academy (Millersburg, KY) leaders are busy preparing to welcome the new boarding school’s first class of cadets this coming fall.
Read MoreThe Contributions that Chinese Students Bring to Boarding Schools
Over the break offered some quiet time to catch-up on reading and a chance to work on posts that might require some digestion and rumination. This brings me to Idylwild Arts Academy president Brian D. Cohen’s response to two recent articles, “Chinese Students Lose as U.S. Schools Exploit Need” and “The China Conundrum,” each of [...]
Read MoreBerkshire School Goes Solar
Lowering electricity prices and consumption in Massachusetts is serious business. Berkshire School doing something about it for their campus.
Read MoreInterested in Opening A Private School? A great physical plant is on the market
What happens when a school closes? Cold realities get played out and one such reality is the sale of the campus. The 62 acre Fox River Country Day School campus is on the market. Back in June we wrote a brief story on the closing of Fox River Country Day School in Elgin, Illinois. Few [...]
Read MoreHow Boarding Schools Are the Gateway for Chinese Student Success
Back on November 3rd, The New York Times ran a collaborative article, “The China Conundrum” combining the work of their reporter, Karin Fischer, and Tom Bartlett of The Chronicle of Higher Education. I call attention to their piece in this forum because the demand and influx of Chinese students into American higher education parallels the [...]
Read MoreHead of School Searches: It’s Announcement Time
Update (11/16/2011 11/18/2011 11/29/11 12/1/11): since posting this piece, we’ve learned of head of school announcements at Gould Academy, Tilton School, Miss Hall’s School, West Nottingham Academy & Brentwood College School. Thanks to all for reaching out. Full write ups are below. We’ve seen three five six seven eight head searches for summer 2012 appointments concluding in the past few weeks and we suspect that [...]
Read MoreThe Gunnery Appoints a New Head of School
Peter W.E. Becker will become The Gunnery‘s 11th Head of School this coming July 1. Becker brings a portfolio of varied experiences to the Washington, CT campus. He will be coming directly from The Lawrenceville School where he currently serves as a Master of History and Interdisciplinary Studies. Prior to his eight years at Lawrenceville, [...]
Read MoreA New Head Brings a Great Combination of Boarding School and Maine Roots
New Kents Hill School head Jeremy LaCasse spoke with Kennebec Journal writer Susan McMillan for an interview published in this past Monday’s paper. Reading “Son of Augusta comes back to lead Kents Hill School,” it’s clear LaCasse brings a great combination of boarding school and Maine roots to his new post. The interview covers expected [...]
Read MoreDeveloping a Charter Boarding School
Knoxville College president Dr. Horace Judson and Genesis Rock Foundation president Russ Smith are working to bring their vision for a charter boarding school in the South up and running on the Knoxville College Campus by the coming fall. The men believe that a boarding environment offers the strongest path to school success for their [...]
Read MoreA Boys Learning Differences Boarding School Adds a High School: A Q&A with the Head of The Greenwood School
Following-up The Greenwood School‘s announcement of their expansion to include a full high school program, Greenwood headmaster, Stewart Miller spoke with us about the opportunities and motivations behind Greenwood’s growth. Brian Fisher (BF): What’s the impetus behind growing to include a high school? Does Greenwood just work better for some kids to have a consistent [...]
Read MoreRabun Gap-Nacoochee School Appoints Anthony Sgro 10th Head
Anthony Sgro, who holds a Ed.D from the University of Pennsylvania, comes to Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School from a twelve year tenure at Woodbury Forest (VA) where he concluded as assistant head and dean of students. His Woodbury Forest, and personal experiences, evince a deep, wide understanding, as well as a commitment to, boarding school. Sgro [...]
Read MoreA Junior Boarding School Expands to Include a Full 9-12 High School
Following on the heels of their June announcement about adding grades nine and ten, The Greewood School‘s expansion plans have grown. Greenwood (Putney, VT) is adding a full high school with the first graduating class scheduled for spring 2014. The school will now be able to work the boys from the fourth to twelfth grades, [...]
Read More8 Man Football Keeps Saint Andrews-Sewanee on the Field
You can’t have the South without football, which is why in small towns a couple of scaled down variations of the game keep small high school teams on the field. Six and eight man football is lifeblood of the game throughout the South. The eight man game is now also given life to football at [...]
Read More$2.3 Million Donation Supports Kents Hill School Learning Center
Exciting new from our friends at Kents Hill School (Kents Hill, ME). The school will use a $2.3 million donation from the Harold Alfond Foundation to build a new learning center. The Akin Learning Center will support the 40-50 KHS students who receive instruction as part of the school’s learning differences program. The center takes its [...]
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