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High school counseling
A critical step in each student’s success
Gordon ends in eighth grade, and the high school counseling process is critical to the overall success of each Gordon student. Gordon places a fresh class of eighth graders into high schools each year, giving the administration the opportunity to ensure that each student has a smooth transition academically and socially into a new school.
- With guidance from the Head of School, the Middle School Director and High School Placement Counselor, eighth grade students compile a list of schools to visit and apply for admission.
- Advisors and teachers review student essays for admission and help students practice interviewing skills.
- Gordon staff communicates constantly with the secondary schools and ensures that all supporting application materials are delivered in a timely fashion.
- The majority of Gordon graduates place in honor classes at the high school level and receive recognition for their academic capabilities, leadership skills, thoughtful citizenship and unique contributions to class discussion and projects.
The statistics below were drawn from the classes of 2017 through 2021.
The 192 students from these classes chose to attend thirty-two different schools in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, North Carolina, Ohio and France.
- 68% chose independent day schools
- 17% chose public schools
- 12% chose boarding schools
- 3% chose parochial schools
- 8% chose single gender schools
- 66% chose schools that begin in preschool
- 31% chose schools that begin in ninth grade
Where do they go?
In the past five years, Gordon students have chosen:
Barrington High School
Bay View Academy
Bishop Hendricken High School
Charlotte Country Day School
Classical High School
Concord Academy
Cranston East High School
Dighton-Rehoboth High School
East Providence High School
École Jeannine Manuel
The Jacqueline M. Walsh School
La Salle Academy
Lincoln School
The Loomis Chaffee School
The MET School
Middlesex School
Milton Academy
Moses Brown School
Mount St. Charles Academy
Orange High School
Phillips Academy, Andover
Portsmouth Abbey School
Portsmouth High School
Proctor Academy
Providence Country Day School
Putney School
Rocky Hill School
St. Andrew’s School
St. Raphael’s Academy
School One
Tabor Academy
Wheeler School
Students from that group were also accepted at:
Brooks School
Deerfield Academy
Emma Willard School
Groton School
Holderness School
Noble and Greenough School
Pomfret School
St. George’s School
St. Sebastian's School
Thayer Academy