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Private School Scholarship Opportunities

Depending on your financial situation, location, and religious or ethnic background, the range of scholarship sources available to your child may include school-administered awards as well as scholarships from local, regional and national organizations.

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Private School Scholarship Opportunities

Elements of the Admission Process

As part of the private school selection process, many schools require applicants to take an entrance examination to gauge a perspective student's aptitude and his or her potential for future academic success...

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Standardized Admission Testing

As part of the private school selection process, many schools require applicants to take an entrance examination to gauge a perspective student's aptitude and his or her potential for future academic success...

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Rated PG – Some Students May Not Be Suitable for College (Yet)

It's the educational path drilled into students as early as preschool: Work your way through the elementary and middle school grades, earn your highschool diploma, and immediately enroll in a four-year college...

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PG Programs List

Community Service as a Curricular Requirement

Community service, long a staple of private school life, may well be gaining in popularity among private school administrators. According to data compiled for the past three editions of The Handbook of Private Schools, more and more schools are requiring their students to engage in community service. In the 2008 Handbook, 880 of approximately 1700 listed schools...

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Quaker Schools: A Surprising Success Story

After one of the most eagerly anticipated school selections in recent American history, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, elected to send their two daughters to Sidwell Friends School, a Quaker private school that once enrolled another "first daughter," Chelsea Clinton. Although perhaps viewed as a curiosity by the public at large, Quaker schools now represent...

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Beyond Academics

One of the advantages of private elementary and secondary education is the likelihood of more extensive student resources and opportunities than one can typically find in a public school setting. Perhaps this disparity between public and private schools has always existed, but budgetary shortfalls in many communities resulting from the recent economic ...

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International Baccalaureate Programs

One of the interesting recent trends in both public and private school settings in the United States has been the increasing adoption of International Baccalaureate (IB) programming. Although still somewhat unusual, these three programs are becoming more of a curricular element in today's elementary and secondary schools. That being the case, a discussion of IB....

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The Alternative Scene

Specialized and nontraditional private schools provide invaluable options for unique students. Unbound by the government curricular and testing requirements followed by public schools, private schools provide a range of educational alternatives for students whose needs aren't being...

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Coming to America

When The Washington Post interviewed eighth-grader Min So Kim for its March report on rising numbers of international students at area private schools, the 14-year-old offered a simple explanation why her parents in Chungbuk, Korea, sent her to...

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