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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. So the school within a school thing is only for freshman year. In handbook it’s documented as Small Learning Community

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Learning_Community

The 9th Grade "Small Learning Community" (SLC)
W-L specifically targets the transition to high school by organizing 9th graders into Small Learning Communities.
• How it works: Freshmen are grouped into cohorts where they share a core set of teachers (English, Science, and Social Studies).
• The Goal: This allows teachers to collaborate more effectively on a specific group of students, ensuring no one falls through the cracks during the critical first year.[/quote]

They do this at Swanson (or have in some years...not sure anymore) and it's a total nothing.  It might be more effective at WL.[/quote]

They also have the mentorship program where upperclassmen are paired with freshmen and new transfer students to help with the transition to high school. Note sure about Wakefield, but this has been a thing at W-L and Yorktown for many decades now. [/quote]

Huh.  I think my Yorktown student was paired with no one ever.[/quote]

At W-L it's called the Connect Mentoring Program and it is wildly popular with students. It really helps with adjusting to a large school and the higher expectations of challenging high school courses. [/quote]

Yorktown has The Bridge Mentoring Program which pairs the most accomplished student-scholars with younger students. [/quote]

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