Choosing a Boarding School

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People often associate boarding schools with "troubled" or "at-risk" students, and while they can help guide a troubled student they also offer excellent and unique learning opportunities for students who simply want the chance to excel and prepare for the future.

What is a boarding school?
Boarding schools are private schools that offer not only an education but also residential facilities for both students and faculty. The residential aspect offers students a chance to experience college life in a smaller, more personal setting. Because many of the faculty also lives on campus, boarding schools are often tight-knit communities where students have learning opportunities that extend far beyond the classroom. Students and faculty getting to know each other enable the faculty to give their students focused attention in the areas where it's most needed.

Though there are dormitories at boarding schools, living on campus phone number data always required. In some schools, less than half the students live in the dorms; the rest commute. For those who choose to live on campus, they get the added benefit of a team of "house advisors" who oversee the day-to-day happenings in the dorms. House advisors are a team of adults - typically faculty who also teach at the school - who live in or near the dorm. Students have almost 24 hour access to the house advisors, who act not only as residential managers, but often become mentors for the students.

What types of boarding schools are available?
Though there are a wide variety of boarding schools, most of them fit into one of three categories: college-prep, junior and therapeutic boarding schools.

College-prep
College-prep boarding schools are specifically designed to prepare students for college. College-prep schools are great for students who are academically motivated and want the opportunity to thrive in a more challenging environment. College-prep schools typically offer advance courses and opportunities for additional study or focus in a particular area of interest.

There are several different types of college-prep boarding schools and each type offers its own style, focus and culture.

Single-sex boarding schools are just what they sound like, either all boys or all girls. The general academic focus is the same in a single-sex school, but many parents and teachers believe that students are better able to focus in a single-sex setting. Studies have indicated that, free of some of the pressure that exist in co-ed settings, both boys and girls feel freer to explore areas of interest that might be less accepted in a co-ed environment. For example, more girls pursue technical-related courses in an all-girls school, and more boys express interest in language arts.