What’s on your wish list?
Start by working with your family to determine your ideal educational community. Ask yourself whether the school would be:- Small or large?
- A day school or boarding school?
- Coeducational or single-sex?
- Traditional or progressive?
- A source of special programs (for example, arts, sports, or computers)?
- A diverse community?
- Sensitive to your child’s special needs, whether for rigorous intellectual preparation, for programs devoted to average learners, or for a curriculum geared to students with learning differences?
- Regional guidebooks on the shelves of your local library or bookstore;
- State or local associations of independent schools;
- School fairs, usually sponsored in the fall by local groups of day schools or by regional groups of boarding schools;
- Teachers who have worked with your child.