Business of Boarding Schools
A 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 (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 name from [...]
Read MoreWelcome Back prepGATE!
We learned this morning that prepGATE has returned to the private school K-12 education loan market- making loans to families as they finance boarding and private school tuition. prepGATE, like many other lenders, had exited the boarding and private school loan business during the economic downturn. Prior to their withdrawal, prepGATE had been a mainstay [...]
Read MoreA Boarding School Expands
Understanding that its students would benefit greatly from extending The Greenwood School experience into early high school, Greenwood is adding 9th and 10th grade programs beginning fall of 2011. Greenwood has been a boys junior boarding school up to this expansion. Greenwood’s specialized program is geared to work with “bright and talented boys with learning [...]
Read MoreThe Decline of Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies
If you were in schools, in any capacity, during the past 20, or so, years, you’re familiar with zero-tolerance discipline policies- policies put in place to provide clarity both, in the rule, and the punishment. Do X and you’re removed from school. Boy, did the clarity of zero-tolerance sound good on paper. Everyone would know [...]
Read MoreSadly, We Note the Closing of Fox River Country Day School
With heavy hearts, we read about the announced closing of Fox River Country Day School in Elgin, Illinois this morning. Many people may not know that Fox River has a boarding school history, and operated a small junior boarding program (20 students, grades 5-8) through this year. The school began in 1913 as Chicago Junior [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Goes Back to the Future: Public School Develops Boarding Program
Michael Winerip’s “Tiny Town Recruits Students Worldwide,” in Saturday’s New York Times chronicles the rise of an international boarding student program at Newcomb Central School (Newcomb, NY). A town under stress as industry declined and its population seeks opportunity elsewhere, Newcomb school enrollment had fallen to 55 students, K-12. Necomb’s solution comes right out of [...]
Read MoreGrand River Academy Head Randy Blum To Retire
Grand River Academy (an all-boy boarding school in Austinburg, OH) Headmaster Randy Blum will retire after graduation ceremonies in spring 2012. Mr. Blum has been at Grand River 37 years- the past 23 as Headmaster. His announcement opens the search process for his successor. GRA trustees chairman Dr. John DeCato offered this quick description: “In [...]
Read MoreStoneleigh-Burnham School Adopts the IB
Stoneleigh-Burnham School (Greenfield, MA) joins the growing list of American boarding schools adopting the International Baccalaureate program to shape their acdemic programs. Stoneleigh becomes the third girls boarding school, and the first in New England girls boarding school, to adopt the IB. Stoneleigh is currently wrapping up its IB accredidation and adoption process. SB-S will [...]
Read MoreICEF is Coming to Vancouver in May!
Many schools use educational consultants to help them find and select suitable students. It makes sense. Why fly half-way across the world to find students when you can hire someone on the ground in any specific country to find students for you? These consultants (sometimes referred to as agents) vary in ability and professionalism, so [...]
Read MoreWorcester Academy Builds Sister-School Bonds with Abaarso Tech
As part of the Worcester Academy‘s “Open Gates” program, the school has formed a sister school relationship with Abaarso Tech, Somliland, Africa. The new program pairs: “10th Grade Worcester Academy students with 10th Grade Abaarso Tech students in a sort of 21st century pen pal program. They are not only learning about different cultures, but [...]
Read MoreChristchurch School Boarding Program To Go Coed in 2012
Christchurch School announced last week that girls will become part of the school’s boarding program beginning fall 2012. Founded as a boys school in 1921, girls have been part of Christchurch as day students since 1973. From the Christchurch announcement: “…In 2009, the Christchurch School Board of Governors commissioned a consultant to study coeducational boarding [...]
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