Last night, I attended a reception organized by our friends at Léman Manhattan to welcome–or make one last attempt to win over–the parents of students who have been accepted into their high school for 2025-2026. Our partnership is going from strength to strength; I clinked glasses with many parents from The École (which, I’m not afraid to say, remains the gold standard when it comes to hosting social gatherings!) because all of our 8th Grade students who applied to Léman have been accepted.
That doesn’t mean, however, that all our students who have been accepted to Léman will go there because, make no mistake, Léman is not doing us a favor by accepting our students; they are accepted because their profiles are particularly attractive: our students are multilingual and cultivated with impressive academic results. They have a strong foundation in both knowledge and skills–powerful indicators of long-term academic success.
What our colleagues at Léman Manhattan see in our students other schools see as well: all our 8th graders who applied to the Lycée français, UNIS, and Dwight were accepted there too. Other students, depending on their individual passions and aspirations, applied to different private high schools and achieved the same level of success at excellent schools such as Trinity, Avenues, Grace Church, and LREI (we’re keeping our fingers crossed for one student who is still holding out hope for a place at Dalton.)
Léman didn’t set the date for their reception on a whim–it coincided with the release of public high school admissions offers yesterday afternoon and I would like to take a moment to congratulate two of our 8th graders who aced the SHSAT exams that open the doors to New York’s specialized high schools. Both achieved the results required to secure their first choice: Stuyvesant for Gauthier and Brooklyn Latin for Ella. We are also delighted to see that two of our students have been “matched” as they say, with Clinton, a highly reputable public high school that prepares students for the IB diploma, just like Boerum High School for International Studies in Brooklyn (two students) and other top-notch high schools, such as Millenium and Design Works, whose curriculum is constructed around design thinking. Others again have been accepted into the artistic programs they hoped for, and we are, of course, both happy for and proud of them, too.
Our 8th Grade students and their families now have to decide which high school suits them best. Talk about tough choices! For some, there is no doubt, while others are still hesitating between the outstanding options available to them. Being a student at The École is not always an easy task, as you can see. Bravo to all for their impressive results, and congratulations to Melissa Millan for her unwavering support throughout this process.
Finally, I also wanted to mention our wonderful Maternelle. Maternelle families occasionally decide to leave us–we don’t talk about it much because it happens so rarely, and obviously, we’d love it if everyone stayed! Two families, in particular, made that choice this year, and this fall, their children will join Spence and Hunter, two extremely selective schools, which just goes to show that The École stands on equal footing with the very best!