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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy answer: whichever school your child will do best in. What I mean by that is success inside the classroom -- the classes and teachers they'll respond to best -- and outside -- sports, ECs, whatever. And the place they'll feel most comfortable and thrive. For some, that's a parochial school. For others, a public school. Four years is a long time for a child to develop, so focus on the place that will best help them do that, not the one with the impressive list of college matriculations (which may vary wildly from year to year). [/quote]

THIS.

If you're fortunate enough to have choices, this is the way to go. Whether a school sent 0, 1, or 10 kids to Harvard last year has very little bearing on whether YOUR kid will have (or want to have) the same outcomes in four years. The best you can do, given multiple options, is to pick a place where they will be challenged and engaged as they are now. Trying to game the system is a sure way to be disappointed.

If you do look at the college list, don't look at the top. Look at the middle 50% over multiple years. I know we all think our kids will be in the top tier, but you want to be comfortable with the average outcome. ([b]To me, one appeal of a private HS is the average outcomes are still very solid, whereas our zoned public HS has a steep drop off outside the very top tier of achievers[/b].)
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How do you quantify this though?  Privates are not very transparent or precise (is one student’s stellar record counted multiple times for several acceptances?  Are several years combined?), and our public has a large range of acceptances and placements that seem to correspond to the large amount of kids from all backgrounds that go there. How do you see the steep drop off at your public?   How do I read deeper into the numbers, or take away more from what information we get?[/quote]

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