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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are trying to make the same decision.

Clearly HB has more resources and better facilities. Smaller class sizes. Better test scores.

Our impression is that it also gets, on balance, the more engaged and committed teachers—all of whom are dealing with fewer students and are more supported than at Y or WL.

But what about HB for a kid who isn’t all that “quirky”, doesn’t have an elaborate menu of pronouns, and is just a good student, highly social? It’s difficult to tell what % of the student population is [b]fairly normal[/b] v those that are more in the (maybe stereotypical) “freaks and geeks” or ultra-woke mold that HB seems to cater to? (FTR it’s great those kids have a place they can thrive, and no issue with DC being in that kind of environment… just unclear whether *everyone* is like that or there’s more of a mix than is readily apparent.) [/quote]

PP here - no, as I said before, HB actually has less resources - fewer class offerings, fewer extracurriculars.

As to lower class sizes - probably slightly lower at HB because HB uses its allotment for counselors for teachers and elects to have no counselors. So that is a tradeoff. Some of the class sizes that look tiny on paper actually are not. An AP class may look small on paper, but it's combined with a non AP class so it's really not. I don't see that as an upside.

I can tell you that I know plenty of kids in the group you describe who transferred out of HB back to their home school because they wanted a more traditional social experience. [/quote]

This is not the school for your child if you think in these terms. [/quote]

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