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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few senior executives where I work have had kids graduate from Barnesville and they've all been happy with the school/ exmissions.  We've only experienced the summer camp which we have had a mixed result with.  Our older one was sort of bullied at the camp one year but was adored by the teachers.  The programs themselves have varied in quality/ organization.  The staff though has always been very friendly and flexible.  The problem I think Barnesville has is that it is very expensive relative to its nearest competitors (Seneca ,Butler,MON).  I know two families midlevel career people who have left for financial reasons.  If the school was 8k per year rather than approx 20k, we would have considered.[/quote]

OP here again.  As earlier mentioned, we attended Seneca for a while, and had a very bad experience. Just last night we happened to run through some old e-mails with Seneca and reminding ourselves of just how saddening it was.  I don't have experience (not even a visit) with the other two schools you mention.

We were fortunate in being able to look both at the down-county schools and the ones north of us.  We hadn't originally intended to go up in that direction, it just worked out that way.  For most of our search we assumed we'd be down-county.  If events had worked out slightly differently we might have wound up at SAES or Norwood, but our choice of Barnesville was the best fit for our particular situation.

Again this set of reviews is not intended to sell everyone on our choice but to provide capsule reviews of 14 schools.  We did a lot of visits these last two years and we picked up a ton of information.  In 2012 we did one round of visits that didn't ultimately wind up in our applying, and then in 2013 we did another.  Along the way we got quite the crash course in all the MoCo private elementary schools.[/quote]

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