Stone Ridge School - Who do they tend to reject?

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to tell who they are not looking for before applying? For example, what type of girls will make this a reach school and which will make this school a safety school?

[Anonymous]

They don't reject many girls, esp those whose parents can pay full tuition.

[Anonymous]

DD got rejected for 9th this year. She had fantastic interviews, shadows, and good SSAT scores, and we did apply for FA. She's currently at one of the other Catholic HS schools, is in a couple honors classes and is on a partial scholarship. We're quite happy with the way things turned out.

It's a great school, go for it. I think it may be easier to get into MS though....GL!

[Anonymous]

What about young girls with diagnosed ADHD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about young girls with diagnosed ADHD?

It depends on the child.
My daughter has mild ADHD with a mild processing disorder. Her WISC was 55%. Solid recommendations from her current school and decent grades. Not all A's but A's and B's.
She got turned down for lower school based primarily on the shadow day. She had difficulty focusing on and completing the work. They were very kind and let me see what she had completed and it was almost a grade level ahead of what she was doing at her current school. It was felt that she would struggle too much to not only catch up with the rest of the class but to try to catch up with the processing delay would be very difficult. I would say to apply and see how it goes but they don't seem to have a lot in place for girls that need more than just minimal support. The Admissions staff are very nice, very responsive and were very kind but honest throughout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about young girls with diagnosed ADHD?

Holy Child was recommended in another thread for ADD or ADHD. Although I think they start at 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about young girls with diagnosed ADHD?

It depends on the child.
My daughter has mild ADHD with a mild processing disorder. Her WISC was 55%. Solid recommendations from her current school and decent grades. Not all A's but A's and B's.
She got turned down for lower school based primarily on the shadow day. She had difficulty focusing on and completing the work. They were very kind and let me see what she had completed and it was almost a grade level ahead of what she was doing at her current school. It was felt that she would struggle too much to not only catch up with the rest of the class but to try to catch up with the processing delay would be very difficult. I would say to apply and see how it goes but they don't seem to have a lot in place for girls that need more than just minimal support. The Admissions staff are very nice, very responsive and were very kind but honest throughout.

Good info, thanks. Where did your DD end up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about young girls with diagnosed ADHD?

Holy Child was recommended in another thread for ADD or ADHD. Although I think they start at 6th grade.

Yes, thanks, I saw that, but we have a way to go until 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

We were told to steer clear of our parish parochial school for our ADHD child. I'd rather not name it, but it one of the popular ones. A child with ADHD does better with smaller classes and more support than most of the the parochial schools can offer. I would have thought that Stone Ridge might work for ADHD, but PP's posts seems to indicate that it wouldn't. Washington Episcopal (WES) is suppose to have great support specialists in place for kids with issues like ADHD, as is the McLean School.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were told to steer clear of our parish parochial school for our ADHD child. I'd rather not name it, but it one of the popular ones. A child with ADHD does better with smaller classes and more support than most of the the parochial schools can offer. I would have thought that Stone Ridge might work for ADHD, but PP's posts seems to indicate that it wouldn't. Washington Episcopal (WES) is suppose to have great support specialists in place for kids with issues like ADHD, as is the McLean School.

PP, I don't want to "out" her on here.
Feel free to email me at mageical at gmail dot com and I would be happy to share and give you more details on why the current school is working for us, why the prior school wasn't and how getting rejected from SR was a blessing in disguise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about young girls with diagnosed ADHD?

It depends on the child.
My daughter has mild ADHD with a mild processing disorder. Her WISC was 55%. Solid recommendations from her current school and decent grades. Not all A's but A's and B's.
She got turned down for lower school based primarily on the shadow day. She had difficulty focusing on and completing the work. They were very kind and let me see what she had completed and it was almost a grade level ahead of what she was doing at her current school. It was felt that she would struggle too much to not only catch up with the rest of the class but to try to catch up with the processing delay would be very difficult. I would say to apply and see how it goes but they don't seem to have a lot in place for girls that need more than just minimal support. The Admissions staff are very nice, very responsive and were very kind but honest throughout.

Good info, thanks. Where did your DD end up?

Sorry, answered you further down. 21:33 - please email me.

[Anonymous]

Silver and bronze medalists ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about young girls with diagnosed ADHD?

Holy Child was recommended in another thread for ADD or ADHD. Although I think they start at 6th grade.

Yes, thanks, I saw that, but we have a way to go until 6th grade.

Also, check out Brookewood in Kensington.