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[quote=Anonymous]Parent of a middle school girl here. We've been at SR for four years. We are a non-Catholic but Christian family. We are upper middle-class and don't fit in to the Mercedes / Country Club / lifer crew, which is definitely a real thing. Tuition is a huge stretch for us. Here are my impressions of SR. First of all, head of school is very impressive. She is smart, polished, and has a goal in mind, which is to build the best all girls school in the County, Catholic or not. This is a stretch goal with Holton, but SR is definitely increasingly running neck-and-neck with HA, at a cheaper price point. Secondly, the HS is awesome. Everything we've seen is that HS has amazing teachers, great girls, etc. The culture in HS seems quite tolerant, academically focused, and involved. The head of the HS follows in the head of school's footsteps; he's nice, smart, tolerant, competent, and the girls seem to love him. Now, on to MS. MS has been... a mixed bag. Still; happy we're at SR but could be better. MS is made up of three groups of students; (1) lifers who tend to be filthy rich and... let's just say it... mean; (2) people like us who came in looking for an upgrade from public school around 4th-6th grade; and (3) new girls who came in 7th-8th looking for a leg up on competitive admission into the HS. Of these groups, the lifers tend to dominate, and there is definitely bullying (not physical--emotional) and huge clique-y-ness. Is it worse than anywhere else? Hard to say. It's middle school, middle school sucks everywhere... but I'd have to say that the lifer / social club dynamic is really strong and not helpful. As far as parents complaining that the school doesn't do enough to address it, I don't think there's much they can do. These kids (parents) exist and they dominate. It is what it is. Middle School academics have improved massively in the past two years. The MS had a problem with lots of very old, very tenured teachers who just weren't dynamic. These have been aggressively moved out to make room for young, dynamic, great teachers. This year was my daughter's best year BY FAR at SR as far as academics, so kudos there. In 9th grade, A LOT of new girls come in, and admissions demand was very strong this year. My sense is that this seriously dilutes / destroys the mean girl dynamic--which happens naturally as well as girls mature--and makes the academics even more rigorous. We are very much looking forward to HS at SR. As far as those comparing SR to Visi, my sense is it's a tad more liberal but not in any meaningful way.[/quote]

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