Ready for anything.
Everything we do builds to prepare our students for entry into an impressive range of the top high schools in the city and region. Students graduate from our program as well rounded, articulate, confident, and morally responsible individuals who are prepared to meet the challenges of a demanding secondary education and continue on the path of lifelong learning.
Process
In the spring of 7th grade, families begin working with our High School Placement Director, learning about the mechanics of the high school application process. Families then devote time during the summer to explore high schools.
As the students enter their 8th grade year in the fall, they embark on visits and interviews to prospective schools, while benefiting from our weekly Decisions classes, where we offer support and guidance throughout the process. In addition, a series of parent meetings and regular, detailed communication from the Placement Director ensure that families remain well-informed and on the right path.
We embrace a collaborative approach involving the Placement Director, the Head of Upper School, the student support team, and teachers. The Head of School also actively participates by conducting mock interviews with students. Our aim is to establish a robust support system that not only provides comfort and security to students and their families, but also encourages thorough consideration of all available options.
Relationships
Town partners closely with students and their families throughout the high school application process.
Our Director of High School Placement, Head of Upper School, and Upper School student support team all teach our 8th grade students regularly, which means that deep knowledge of each individual child informs reference letters, meetings with families, and conversations with high school admissions officers.
We are known for our integrity in advocating for our students with other schools. High school admissions officers know that our goal is to help students get to know schools and for the admissions teams to get to know our students. The information we share is based on real, lived experience with each student.
Outcomes
Our graduates enter high school with the confidence and self-knowledge that can only be achieved through a rigorous, well-designed placement process. Town alumni/ae go on to attend the best schools in New York City, including independent day schools, performing arts academies, and specialized public high schools, as well as boarding schools in the tri-state area and beyond.
“The special thing about Town to me was that I enjoyed most of my classes and felt encouraged to keep pursuing a portfolio of learning rather than a single track. I enjoyed English the most and it led to more differentiated skills in my career. Learning to love reading, scan text for the arguments and core theses, write with clarity and concision all came from Town. Though there were clear rewards for focusing on quantitative subjects, I was unwilling to give up the other half of my brain that I developed in Town English courses. That led me to take Philosophy and Economics courses in college, helped spur my interest in language models over other machine learning subjects, and it made me a more effective communicator as I've tried to start my own business.”
High School Destinations
Classes of 2022 - 2026
Over the past five years, Town graduates have attended the following schools:
American School in London*
Avenues: The World School*
Avon Old Farms
Berkeley Carroll School
Birch Wathen Lenox School*
Blair Academy*
The Brearley School
The Bronx High School of Science*
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School*
Copenhagen International School
The Dalton School*
Darien High School
Dwight Englewood School*
Elisabeth Irwin High School
Ethical Culture Fieldston School*
Fordham Preparatory School
Frank Sinatra School for the Performing Arts*
Friends Seminary
Garden School
Grace Church School*
Greenwich Academy
Greenwich Country Day
Gulliver Prep (FL)
Hackley School*
Abraham Joshua Heschel School
High School of American Studies
High School of Math, Science & Engineering
Horace Mann School
Kent School*
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts*
LaSalle Academy*
The Loomis Chaffee School
Loyola School*
The Masters School*
Miami Country Day (FL)
Edward R. Murrow High School*
The Nightingale Bamford School*
Poly Prep Country Day School
Pomfret School
Riverdale Country School*
Rumsey Hall School
The Spence School*
St. Ann’s School
Trevor Day School*
Trinity School*
Urban Assembly New York Harbor School*
W. T. Clarke High School
Walnut Hill School for the Arts
Williston Northampton School
Xavier High School*
York Preparatory School*
*Indicates that two or more graduates attended
College Destinations
Classes of 2018 - 2022 (high school graduation years of 2022 - 2026)
Over the past five years, Town graduates have attended the following colleges and universities:
Amherst College*
Babson College*
Barnard College
Boston College*
Boston University*
Brown University*
Bucknell University*
Case Western Reserve University
Chapman College
Clark Atlanta University
Colgate University*
Cornell University*
Dartmouth College*
Dickinson College
EHL Hospitality Business School (Lausanne)
Elon University
Emerson College*
Emory University*
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Haverford College
Indiana University Bloomington
Lafayette College
Lehigh University*
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Loyola Marymount University
McGill University
Mohawk Valley Community College
Mount Holyoke College
New York University*
North Carolina State University
Northeastern University*
Northwestern University*
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Parsons School of Design
Princeton University
Purdue University
Regents University (London, UK)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rice University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Shenandoah University
Skidmore College
Smith College
Stanford University
SUNY Binghampton
Swarthmore College*
Syracuse University*
Temple University
Trinity College*
Trinity College Dublin
Tufts University*
Tulane University*
UCLA
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago*
University of Colorado
University of Madrid
University of Maryland
University of Miami*
University of Michigan*
University of Nevada, Reno
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania*
University of Richmond*
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of St Andrews*
University of Texas
University of Wisconsin*
Vassar College*
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Wake Forest University*
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan University
*Indicates that two or more graduates attended.