School life, between the linesBy Admissions Diary
School stories, admissions adventures, and the things parents talk about on the way home.
School portraits · New York City
Teachers at a Manhattan school for children with learning differences staged a "crime scene" to teach inference. The clues led, correctly, to the top.
School portraits · Carpinteria, California
On a California boarding school's spring family weekend, students showed their parents what assembly looks like. The announcements had a runway.
School portraits · New York City
Students at New York's public arts high school learned to put on an exhibition the professional way, with a checklist. Meanwhile the department needed paper towels.
School portraits · Atherton, California
Families compare academics, arts and commute times. In 2021 one Atherton sophomore added a column nobody else had: hives.
School portraits · New York City
A bilingual school in Manhattan put eighteen children through a French diploma exam, then offered the same preparation to the adults. The adults had further to go.
School portraits · New York City
The Rampage, the student paper at an Upper East Side school, reviews whatever the building does next. In November 2024 the building made a new noise.
School portraits · Brooklyn
Two sisters greet students at two Brooklyn Friends buildings a few blocks apart. When one was out for a week, the parents of the preschoolers all had the same report.
School portraits · The Bronx, New York
To get to the stars at the Bronx High School of Science, take stairway D to the third floor and follow the signs. In 2023, a senior held the title of planetarium director.
School portraits · Brooklyn, New York
On the seventh and eighth floors of Brooklyn Technical High School is a two-story metal-casting room, with a hundred-foot skylight and a furnace. It is used for storage.
School portraits · Boston, Massachusetts
Certamen is a buzzer quiz about the ancient world. Before a 2024 tournament at Yale, Boston Latin's advanced team trained for five weeks, with conditioning.
School portraits · New York City
The Lycée Français de New York's student film festival has a speed category with strange required ingredients. In 2023 they were a firefighter and a mop.
School portraits · New York City
A Riverdale Jewish day school was designed in the 1970s around open space. Its alumni remember the design, the stairs and the one wall that took a hit.
