Best private schools in Greater Boston?

camilli
Mon, 12 Jan 2015 03:49:39 +0000

Also, going back to your question of day student at boarding school: the experience varies a lot, by school and by kid.

Phillips was more or less 80:20, and while students were assigned to dorms and residential clusters, it was easy to feel left out. It was worse for me because I was moving to town just as I started school, so I didn’t even know the local Andover kids. Milton sounded like a better deal at 50:50, but when we looked there for our daughter, it seemed that all the day students left in two rounds of buses at the end of the afternoon and weren’t there for dinner-- which was an important bonding experience. Also, you have a lot of day students moving up from middle school, so a 9th grade day student may have to fight to find a peer group. One of the big factors is that Milton takes kids who have long commutes from a wide radius. And driving there is a real pain from pretty much any other place in the area. Andover (and probably Exeter and a few others) will restrict non-boarding options to the nearest towns.