Updated NMH vs. St. Mark's Comparison

payn4ward
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:30:04 +0000

The two schools are very different. If you can do revisits, have your child pick the one that feels right for him/her. I don’t think either is a pressure cooker environment although both places are competitive. Kids looked happy at both places. St. Mark’s, IIRC, has dress code and NMH don’t, thus that gave SMS more traditional/conservative feel and NMH more progressive. Although some info on CC is outdated, most of them felt true to me.
We had the same choices two years ago but DS1 decided to stay home, which is working fine.
In the end, I preferred SMS but DS liked NMH better. There is something cool about having a farm in campus and a hog as a mascot I felt SMS might be slightly better for DS in academics (STEM kid) with Math Institute, etc. I don’t remember much about science/math in NMH although I am impressed by their Arts center and the spectacular campus.