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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Enough with the Tom Sawyer psychology. Why would anyone give out confidential Board-type data on an anonymous website?[/quote]

You are certainly no Board member.  Your longstanding relationship with Norwood must be with the janitorial services since the  information the poster requests is not high level, NSA, or sercret but information any intelligent parent would like to help inform decisions about private schools for their children.

We are new to the area.  Five or so years ago, we almost committed to sending our 2 children to St Francis (Potomac).  We liked the leadership and their block education curriculum (particularly for math)  so children were appropriately placed in math classes based on ability, accomplishments, and performance) and not age and grade.  On revisits we discovered  that while PK, K, and grade 1 were loaded there were less than 8 students in the graduating 5th grade classroom.  There appeared to be important student attrition in the higher elementary grades.  We instead opted for our local public school (later HGC and middle school magnet programs).  Six to 9 months later we read in the Gazette about the merger of St Francis with St Andrews (Potomac area).  In retrospect, we are happy we did not plunk down $50K for the 2 kids and went with our gut regarding the viability of the school.

Any private school in this market unwilling to share (transparent) the numbers of students in their grades and graduating classes raises a [b]huge[/b] red flag and should not deservice any attention in the education marketplace.

Are you then surprised there have been discussions about a merger in the past ... and most surely in future?

signed Huck Fin
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