Students Should Focus on Both During their crucial high school years, students should prioritize community service alongside their studies, extracurricular activities, and leadership roles within the school. Service to others offers a wide array of benefits for high schoolers, from personal growth to academic improvement, social development, and even career exploration and community engagement. [...]

A Systematic Approach to Academic Goal-Setting Today, students and their families are realizing the importance of individual academic planning throughout the high school years when charting a course toward a preferred college. Academic planning not only helps students navigate their educational journey, but also allows them to maximize their school experience by choosing their preferred [...]

Get Started on Good Habits Now The jump from the expectations in 8th grade to the expectations and workload in 9th grade is a significant transition in a student’s life, especially if they’re attending a college prep institution. Suddenly, proactive life skills like time management, goal-setting, effective study habits and remaining organized are not [...]

It’s Time to Make A Strong Impression After careful research and deliberation, you’ve decided to apply to private school – congratulations on this important decision. Private schools typically have limited seats and a competitive application process, so it’s essential to make a compelling case for yourself to stand out among other applicants. First of all, [...]

Parents who want the best for their students have many educational options. You may have already decided that private school is your preference; but within that group, you’ll find religiously affiliated schools that do an excellent job at creating tomorrow’s leaders. For many Catholic families – and others – Catholic high schools are appealing [...]

It’s only natural that families want the best for their students navigating those all-so-important high school years. These years have the power to determine the direction of a person’s life, so the potential educational, social, spiritual and career outcomes of enrollment in a particular school are often of top concern for families. Research has [...]

Where a student decides to attend high school – four of the most formative years of his life – is a major decision for him and his family. This is when gathering information, doing thorough research and asking the right questions come into play – but nothing is as informative as an actual campus [...]

When considering school options for your son, maybe you’ve wondered about the benefits of an all-boys option. This is a fine educational tradition that goes back generations, and for good reason: Single-gender education makes sense for a lot of students, and the positive aspects – educational, social, self-esteem and even spiritual – are many. [...]

Ok, you’ve considered your options, looked at the data, and made an informed decision: you are sending your child to private school. For many families, rankings, facts and figures are only part of the equation: the deciding factors in choosing a specific school often come down to selecting the one that best aligns with [...]