Independent School Advice/Head Royce/Redwood Day/BlackPine Circle
With only a few hours to go, we are trying to decide between Head Royce, Redwood Day, and Black Pine Circle for our daughter's kindergarten year. We are looking for a good balance between academics and opportunities to express oneself creatively. Also concerned and curious about way down the road--where do these graduates end up for college? She is currently attending a Reggio Emilia based language immersion preschool. I will be grateful for your feedback! Thank you!
Mar 22, 2018
Parent Replies
As a former Head Royce grad (along with all four of my siblings) I'd say 100% HRS is a wonderful environment with great and caring teachers with space for creativity and growth. Obviously, I can't compare it to other day schools but there is an excellent alumni community and I felt lucky to have gone there - I felt extremely well-prepared for college and I think my siblings would agree. HRS graduates in our family attended Tufts University, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Pitzer colleges and many of us have stayed friends with the friends we made at HRS to this day. Feel free to message me with specific questions!
Our children, now 16 and 18, attended Black Pine Circle starting in kindergarten. We loved the school, which combined excellent academics with music and the arts. Each year Black Pine Circle hosts an event for high school seniors about to go off to college, which my daughter attended last spring. Many students go on to UC schools, often Berkeley, Davis and Santa Cruz. Alumni also were headed to private schools such as Yale, Brown, and USC (my daughter).