Your kids may have not taken Latin, but in grad school they’ll most likely (hopefully) take academic writing and acquire all sorts of nerdy habits.
As a scientist, I’ll get killed if I use data with a singular verb.
“Income data for the US population were obtained from 1.4 billion deidentified tax records between 1999 and 2014. Mortality data were obtained from Social Security Administration death records. These data were used to estimate race- and ethnicity-adjusted life expectancy at 40 years of age by household income percentile, sex, and geographic area, and to evaluate factors associated with differences in life expectancy.” http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2513561
I don’t think private vs public is much of a diversity factor in BS anyway. Many/Most of the people that have BS on their radar are affluent - period - and come from affluent suburbs. So even he public school kids there are white and affluent (although they would probably label themselves as middle class as everyone seems to do).
Parochial schools seem to draw in a mix of upper middle class kids and lower middle class kids of families that value private education but can’t afford the 25K+ per year day schools in their area. So just because they are lumped in with ‘private school’ kids in the stats doesn’t mean the kids are not social-economically diverse. Again, not sure why public-vs- private is a diversifier… the more important diversity stat is socio-economic class.
FWIW, I just saw that Niche is ranking SPS higher on diversity than Exeter.
Here are their diversity rankings for NH private schools: https://www.niche.com/k12/rankings/private-high-schools/most-diverse/s/new-hampshire/.
Here is their methodology for ranking boarding schools: https://www.niche.com/k12/rankings/private-high-schools/best-boarding/methodology/
^just to make sure I include a disclaimer: I am not a fan of Niche methodology and don’t necessarily put much weight on their rankings.
@GoatMama, I am quite sure their data sources do not capture private school information accurately (not looking at the schools you mentioned but looking at ones in my area I know well.) Department of Education info is self reported, and how schools do this is variable. (For example, students have been talking about how they don’t want a label, especially if they are bi-racial so check no boxes. Does the school go back and change this? Or rely on the student.) Weighing is given to categories completed by niche responders. BS with relatively high numbers of foreign students, most of whom are not white, may have few African American or Latino students. Is that diverse? If you’re white, maybe. If you’re African American, maybe not. There is something great about holding people accountable to data, yet there are so many problems with turning humans into data!
This is a fun site for reading student reviews, many at the extremes of the satisfaction spectrum, though…
^ I completely agree, @gardenstategal. I have multiple issues with Niche methodology alone. Just posted the info because it seemed counterintuitive, all things considered. Another interesting obeservation, again based on a meaninglessly tiny sample, is that the majority of SPS students perceive their peers as well-rounded, but zero perceive them as diverse. On the other hand, zero Exeter students perceive their peers as well-rounded, but there is some perception of diversity.
Niche rankings seem heavily weighted based on reviews and comparisons based on 12 reviews are not really distinguished from comparisons based on 200 reviews. Our local high school was rated A+ yet, per the state tests, only 37% are proficient in reading and 35% are proficient in math.
I wouldn’t trust anything on that site - although the reviews are sometimes interesting to read.
I just read that site for qualitative remarks on the schools, which sometimes provide insights.
I think there are better sources for data on the schools (Boarding School Review, greatschools, state data, etc).
Actually, @HMom16 , the reviews – especially of the college social scenes – are almost always interesting to read! I l