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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a look at St Paul’s upper school. They just ended the IB program bc so few boys were actually earning the diploma. DS graduated a couple of years ago and only 4 kids of about 24 who attempted full diploma did well enough to earn diploma. And only 1/3 of the class even attempted the program. Not very strong academics. [/quote]

As the parent of a St Paul's IB Diploma recipient, this is sad to hear. He's a few years older than your son and when he went there it really seemed like a place where every boy could be personally supported while pursuing what he liked most - academics, arts, athletics. Since the merger with SPSG (and, I have to say it, the emergence of MAGA) it feels much more like a place for non-academic rich kids from the Greenspring Valley. Maybe it always was and the attempt to instill academic rigor via the IB Program was the aberration. The turnover in faculty has also been saddening - when my son attended, there were teacher-coaches that had been there for literally decades, and they're all gone now.

Middle School still seems like a gem but that doesn't mean much if it elevates you into a less-than-stellar Upper School [/quote]

We have two family friends who retired from longtime upper school teaching positions at St. Paul's.  When we started looking at schools and doing the admissions process a few years back the feedback we got from both of them them didn't instill a whole lot of confidence in then current state of things.  We still applied and would have happily enrolled if we hadn't gotten into our first choice but good or bad there's certainly been a shift in what they are doing.[/quote]

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