<p>My son is a day student and his departure time really varies-- some nights he stays for dinner and into the evenings, some nights he goes home before dinner. He usually is on campus at least some on the weekends. His school is only 12% day students, and I have not seen ANY decisions concerning scheduling with day students in mind. That’s actually mostly fine-- we don’t live too far (20 minute drive) and the school is ALWAYS welcoming for day kids to stay for any meal and to sleep over. Some day kids are almost boarders-- don’t just stay every night until 9:45 or 10, but sleep over several nights a week. All this is fine. A friend of my son’s is a boarder at a BS with about 40% day kids, and he is happy there! but does feel like the campus gets very quiet on weekends-- with even a fair number of boarders going home with day kids, and fewer organized activities than at some school. A friend of the family also has a daughter going to a different BS as a day student ,</p>