High school choices

The next steps for Gordon graduates

Gordon's high school placement team is Lynn Bowman, Assistant Head of School, Gabe Burnstein, Middle School Director, Veronica Jutras, Admission Director, and faculty member Caroline Walsh.

Susanna Beckwith '84 is consulting with the team on boarding schools, and Head of School Noni Thomas López and Middle School Assistant Kim Mongeon are present throughout the process. This team provides personal counseling to each student and his or her family throughout the process. They also serve as advocates at each school to which the student applies.

The statistics below were drawn from the classes of 2015 through 2019.
 
The 202 students from these classes chose to attend thirty-one different schools in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

71% chose independent day schools
10% chose boarding schools
15% chose public schools
4% chose parochial schools

15% chose single sex schools

53% chose schools that begin in preschool
28% chose schools that begin in ninth grade