Gordon's next alumni

above: members of Gordon's Class of 2022 celebrate after their victory in the eighth grade vs. faculty and staff basketball game link

Every year, Gordon graduates a new set of alumni who go on to make their mark on a wide variety of high schools: public, independent and charter, locally and nationwide.

This June, Gordon will have forty-five new alumni as the Class of 2022 graduates.

Over the past few weeks, Gordon's eighth graders have been hearing from high schools who understand what Gordon graduates can bring to their community. 

There's been a lot of good news, and many of these eighth graders have tough choices to make in the coming weeks.

Here's a snapshot of where things stand now:

Gordon has forty-five eighth graders.

Twenty-one of them passed the entrance exam for Classical High School, which continues to rank as one of the highest performing public high schools in the country. 

They applied to twenty-two different independent and Catholic high schools, including ten boarding schools. 

Of those students, 91% were were accepted at their first choice school and received aid if they applied for it.

Every student who applied to a Catholic school was accepted.

Local independent schools issued seventy acceptances to Gordon students - a 95% acceptance rate - including:

Twenty-four accepted to Moses Brown
Nineteen accepted to Wheeler School 
Fifteen accepted to Providence Country Day 
Nine accepted to Lincoln School 
Six accepted to St. Andrew's School 

These schools know what Gordon graduates can bring to a community. Gordon alumni are compassionate leaders. They are courageous advocates. They are critical thinkers, they are joyful community members, and they are the kinds of ninth graders these schools want.

Congratulations to the Class of 2022. We can't wait to see what comes next.

March is alumni giving month, and Gordon alumni can welcome the Class of 2022 to their ranks with a gift to the Gordon Fund. When alumni give during March, the first $25,000 will be matched by Rob Glancy '97. For each alumni gift in March, a tulip will be added to the alumni garden in front of the school. Alumni can give now at www.gordonschool.org/alumnigarden