A strong retreat program provides significant benefits for high school students. Retreats emphasize spiritual growth and personal development, preparing students to become good, moral, and ethical individuals. When exploring educational options, you may come across schools that offer retreat programs. These programs provide added benefits for your student's high school experience. What are these benefits? [...]

Benefits Beyond Academics When choosing a private high school, prospective students and their families should take a good look at extracurricular offerings – including sports, clubs, activities, performing arts and more – that both complement the academic experience and contribute to students' personal growth and overall well-being.  Remember: Because they are independent, private schools are [...]

Students Should Focus on Both During their crucial high school years, students should prioritize community service alongside their studies, extracurricular activities, and leadership roles within the school. Service to others offers a wide array of benefits for high schoolers, from personal growth to academic improvement, social development, and even career exploration and community engagement. [...]

A Systematic Approach to Academic Goal-Setting Today, students and their families are realizing the importance of individual academic planning throughout the high school years when charting a course toward a preferred college. Academic planning not only helps students navigate their educational journey, but also allows them to maximize their school experience by choosing their preferred [...]

Get Started on Good Habits Now The jump from the expectations in 8th grade to the expectations and workload in 9th grade is a significant transition in a student’s life, especially if they’re attending a college prep institution. Suddenly, proactive life skills like time management, goal-setting, effective study habits and remaining organized are not [...]

It’s Time to Make A Strong Impression After careful research and deliberation, you’ve decided to apply to private school – congratulations on this important decision. Private schools typically have limited seats and a competitive application process, so it’s essential to make a compelling case for yourself to stand out among other applicants. First of all, [...]

Parents who want the best for their students have many educational options. You may have already decided that private school is your preference; but within that group, you’ll find religiously affiliated schools that do an excellent job at creating tomorrow’s leaders. For many Catholic families – and others – Catholic high schools are appealing [...]

It’s only natural that families want the best for their students navigating those all-so-important high school years. These years have the power to determine the direction of a person’s life, so the potential educational, social, spiritual and career outcomes of enrollment in a particular school are often of top concern for families. Research has [...]