What is your child's school's counselor to student ratio?

<p>Overseas private. No GC. No need for one--most students just need one or two letters of recommendation to get int their student housing. Housemistress who erved as GC happened to be a good writer but we hired a GC to review second son's apps.</p>

<p>One GC for all 500 students at my public school.</p>

<p>Public, 1:500</p>

<p>My high school had 3 counselors for almost 1700 students...so that's 1:566</p>

<p>private. 1:40 seniors. process begins junior year (we got our Naviance log-in when school started in September, two fat questionnaires came home last week, one for the student to fill out, the other for parents and our first orientation/info meeting is mid-Jan). Advisor is a separate position and academic counseling is a team approach: academic dean, advisor and college counselor.</p>

<p>1 for 28, international school</p>

<p>bump</p>

<p>my school, 1900, doesn't have college counselors. none. the principle, VP of academics, VP of discipline, VP of activities and the VP of "guidence" (with whom no one has met with outside of seeing her be a yard duty during lunch) are the authors of our counselor recs.</p>

<p>1 for 250 students, 1 per 60 seniors.</p>

<p>Large CA public h.s. There are two counselors assigned to 800 freshmen. Then there are six counselors for the other 2,270 students, probably about 725 seniors. So 1:400 for freshman and 1: 380 or so for the rest.</p>

<p>1600 students, 7 counselors (so 200-plus students per counselor). Each has about 60 seniors and a similar number in each of the other classes.</p>

<p>3 college counselors for about 250 seniors. But they also work closely with the Juniors as well, so I guess officially the ratio is 3 counselors for 500 students. Some people here lare isting the total number of students in their HS and others just the # of seniors. And does your HS have grades 9-12 or 10-12? The numbers here will differ greatly depending on these variables</p>

<p>we are spoiled! 2 counselors to about 480 students 9-12 at our public, rural hs. They work with two grade levels each and follow those kids throughout their time enrolled. One has 9th and 11th grade the other 10th and 12th this year. But they also fulfill other roles like registrar and provide their own clerical support.</p>

<p>Public, excellent school with excellent admissions results for students at all levels of selectivity.</p>

<p>3 counselors ~520 total students, ~130 seniors.</p>

<p>1:43 for seniors. 1: 140 total.</p>

<p>1 counselor per 23 seniors. 1 counselor per 25 juniors.</p>

<p>3 counselors and 1 administrative assistant for about 300 hs students 9-12.</p>

<p>2.5 counselors for roughly 800 seniors (the .5 divides her time between seniors and juniors). No separate college counselors. Large suburban Chicago high school.</p>

<p>1600 students/ 3.5 counselors.</p>

<p>grades 9-12, lots of challenges. No dedicated "college counselors."</p>

<p>public 1:200; about 1:50 for seniors but probably 1/3 are not college-bound</p>

<p>Public, 5:~200 seniors strictly for college, but the counselors also have one other grade (7-11) with another ~200.</p>

<p>At my school (private), it's 1:84 (roughly)</p>

<p>I am Book Addict's mom. When she was going to high school , it was 2 counselors for the entire school of 2200 students, or about 1:1100. </p>

<p>Just this year , the school hired 2 more counselors, so now it is 4:2200 or 1:550 kids. Still not adequate in my opinion but MUCH BETTER than 2 years ago, when Book Addict was a senior and it was 2:2200 students or 2: 550 seniors.</p>

<p>2 years ago, when we were finding out good fits for Book Addict, and we were looking at some OOS schools, I had to inform the counselor about OOS scholarship opportunites, etc. as the counselor had no clue. </p>

<p>Counselor told me only 10% of a senior class of 550 (eg about 55) would go to 4 year colleges, of the 55, only 20% or so (or about 11) would go to a UC, and only less than 10% of the original 10% ( or about 5 students in a class of 550) would go out of state to a school outside of California -- so that's why the counselor didn't need to know much about OOS merit/need scholarships, and that's why she didn't have to focus too much on requirements of Ivy league type schools.</p>

<p>Truth be known, the counselors have a hard enough job, keeping kids in school long enough to graduate, and to get them to apply to the 2 year local community colleges.</p>

<p>FYI, my daughter "Book Addict" ended up being accepted 12 out of 12 prestigious /OOS schools such as UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, USC, Cal, UCLA, etc. Our goal was to focus on schools giving out merit aid and she got scholarships for 8 out of the 12 schools she applied for. She ended up attending Baylor on a full tuition scholarship.</p>

<p>We now have another Senior Daughter, and are going through the college selection/application process all over again. Even though there are now 4 counselors for the school, we are doing it on our own, as I know WAY more about the process than D2's counselor does (and counselor even admits this).</p>