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[quote=Anonymous]What does your child want out of his high school experience? How much time does he want to have on the weekends? Is he interested in going to football games/school spirit or big, fun dances?

The Abbey definitely has the academics. When you are in high school, the boys take AP everything. So there isn't an option to take regular/honors English instead of AP, for example. Your son needs to be very strong academically and love working for hours on end to succeed at this school. Some of the teachers are better than others, but that's the case everywhere.

Other schools like St John's or Gonzaga offer more of a traditional high school experience with football games, pep rallies, and well attended dances. The Abbey tries to organize pep rallies around the basketball and soccer games, but 50 people on a field on a Friday afternoon with the BBQ club grilling burgers doesn't come close to a Gonzaga/St John's football game with hundreds of kids cheering.  Gonzaga and St John's have the added benefit for kids of being able to take AP classes in their strengths, while dialing it back a bit in areas that are more of a struggle.

Finally, look at the schedule. I know that St John's runs on a block schedule now and I believe Gonzaga does as well. The Abbey runs a straight 9 periods each day, which doesn't give them much time to get any work done outside of lunch. (SAAS doesn't give you a study hall/free period until 11th/12th grade.)

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