"Boarding School News"
Perkiomen Students Help Establish African Libraries
Perkiomen School middle school students collected books during May in their efforts to help establish libraries in Swaziland. Working with The African Library Project, PERK students packed and shipped 2,500 books to Swaziland where every 1,000 books create a working library.
Perkiomen Headmaster Christopher Thompkins told The Mercury News (Perkiomen School establishes library … in [...]
Emotion Trumps Reason in Student Effort to Conserve: Brooks School Students Use TellEmotion
In the ever present battle to stay aware-of and curb personal consumption, appealing to emotion may turn out to be a better motivator than our sense of reason. Students at Brooks School (Andover, MA) have turned to TellEmotion to help them stay on top of personal consumption and conservation.
In simplest terms, TellEmotion connects the well [...]
In Any Market, the Down Portion of the Cycle Offers Buying Opportunities: Private Schools Are No Different- Carpe Diem
In a piece for SmartMoney (The Private School Pinch), Neil Parmer makes the case for the current private school admission cycle as a buyers opportunity. He doesn’t sugar coat the costs but he makes the case for- and provides ideas and examples- of the negotiating and buying opportunities available to parents.
Boarding and private schools [...]
Shared Sacrifice: Jim Wickenden Echos the Call
Jim Wickenden, principal of his eponymous firm, Wickenden Associates called out school heads in the name of shared sacrifice in his blog post titled “Setting an Example.” Citing school cost cutting efforts, Jim notes the symbolic importance of school heads sharing in communal sacrifice and the message that a school heads public sacrifice would send.
“…And [...]
Olney Friends School Helps Reclaim Forest
Learned about this one via AQ’s Twitter.
Working to re-forest coal mining lands in the surrounding area, Olney Friends School faculty and students- working together with BARK (Barnesville Area Reforestation Kommittee)- have participated in the planting of more than 30,000 trees over the past six years.
Learn more about their commitment on the school’s blog, Olney [...]
Steady Application Numbers- Increased Aid Applications: Confirmation of what we’ve been hearing
Admission professionals have been telling us the same story throughout the school year. Applications and inquiries are steady. Financial aid requests are up.
Using interviews at a few schools and with the National Association of Independent Schools, the New York Daily News ran a piece (Private schools see more financial aid requests during recession – [...]
Some Interesting Good News: Knox and St. Bede working to grow
We realized that we’ve published two posts last week about schools that are building dormitories and/or working to expand their boarding populations this week. While not a silver lining, nor confirmation that everything is rosy, it’s great to find two schools well positioned and so dedicated to boarding that they’re building dorms and working to [...]
Read MoreRoss School Offers Merit Scholarships
File this under the ‘fantastic opportunity’ category.
Ross School in Bridgehampton, NY “is offering $20,000 annual Merit Scholarships for students in grades 5-11 who demonstrate academic achievement and exceptional promise” in a number of areas.
Have a demonstrated talent for the Arts, Athletics, Community Service, Math, Media, Music (Jazz), Science, or Theater? This may be [...]
Knox School Wakes From Slumber with Ambition and a Plan
With new head of school George Alison at the helm, The Knox School is focusing its mission and looking to grow its current student population by 40 over the next few years- to about 170 from its current 130 students.
Jennifer Lawrence joined the Knox board of trustees and set to realizing the schools potential by [...]
Olney Friends School Placed on National Register of Historic Places
Peter drew attention to this on AQ’s twitter account the other day and I thought I’d follow up with a mention here.
The National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior approved listing the Olney Friends School campus on the National Register. The buildings date from the late 19th century and feature local materials.
Head [...]
St. Bede Academy Returns To Boarding Roots: A commitment to build two new dormitories
St. Bede Academy- a small Benedictine Catholic school in Peru, IL- broke ground this past Monday on a new building that will house female boarding students beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year.
Reclaiming its boarding mission, St. Bede reopened its boarding department boarding department with the 2007-2008 school year, with four girls and eight boys [...]
Shattuck-St. Mary’s Blends Elite Hockey and Boarding School
An article from today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Minnesota prep school spawn hockey elite) highlights the strong qualities of Shattuck-St. Mary School’s community and the school’s hockey program. S-SM produces great prep hockey teams and individual players, but more than just the hockey, S-SM provides a great setting for hockey players to mature.
As S-SM alumnus and [...]
Community Consequences as Parents and Students Shift from Private to Public Schools
Rinker Buck of the Hartford Courant wrote an interesting piece this week, “Enrollment Shift Could Burden Farmington Valley Towns” in which he lays out the linkages between public and private school enrollment in private school dense areas. Looking at Hartford and its surrounding area, its private school density and the changing fortunes of private school [...]
Read MoreA Sad Passing: Pine Ridge School Announces June 5th Closing
We saw today in the Burlington Free Press that Pine Ridge School (Williston, VT) will close after graduation in June.
Twenty faculty member will lose their positions; Pine Ridge will help students and their families find schools for the fall during these final months.
Pine Ridge had restructured and changed its mission over the past few [...]
Western Independent Schools Meet and Explore Green Campus Ideas and Initiatives
We’ve published a few pieces on environmental initiatives of eastern boarding schools (Green Cup Challenge) and, not to ignore western schools, we just learned that Cate School hosted the Schools Going Green Conference back on January, 15th.
Faculty and students from 15 school convened for a day-long conference exploring the successes and future of campus environmental [...]
