Secondary School Information

Guides to Schools & The Application Process • Public Schools • Private Schools

Many students enrolled in private secondary schools qualify for financial aid offered directly by their school. The School and Student Service for Financial Aid accepts financial applications for many schools. Students may qualify for additional resources through priviate scholarship funds, contest awards, and competions.

Guides to Schools & the Application Process

Private Schools (Peterson's Guides)

SSAT: Secondary School Admissions Test - standardized test used by many private school as part of admissions process.

Independent School Entrance Examination (Educational Records Bureau) - an alternative admissions test used by private and parochial schools.

TABS: The Association of Boarding Schools

CAIS: Connecticut Association of Independent Schools -

NAIS: National Association of Independent Schools -

Parent's Guide to Independent Schools - choosing, applying, and financing a private school education

School/District Data, Connecticut State Department of Education - statistics for Connecticut public schools

Boarding School Reviews - commercial site with comparative data about many (but not all) American boarding schools with some international listings as well; some figures not readily available in published sources; reviews include detailed evaluations by current and graduated students of about 100 of the schools, although methods of soliciting and posting these reviews are not disclosed; includes critical as well as laudatory comments.

PrepReview - commercial subscription site which compares statistics (including many not widely publicized) about schools and placement success at Ivy Leauge colleges, MIT, & Stanford.

Vincent Curtis Educational Register - approximately 1200 schools and programs throughout the U.S. and Europe are profiled; free matching service; resource articles on private school options.

Scholar Search Associates Guide to Independent Schools - "independent schools and programs for the motivated student"; essays and interviews of students, parents, and faculty at about a dozen schools.

Secondary School Fairs

17 Sept. - Western Connecticut Boarding Schools School Fair & Student Panel, at Westover School, Middlebury

7 Oct. - TMA Secondary School Fair

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Public Schools

Some of the area public schools that Talcott Mountain Academy graduates have attended:

Avon High School (Avon)

Farmington High School (Farmington)

Greater Hartford Academy of Math & Science (Hartford)

Simsbury High School (Simsbury)

Hall High School (West Hartford)

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Private Schools

The print edition of the Peterson's Guide to Private Secondary Schools is available in the TMA Library (Click here to access the companion website, which includes many helpful essays.) Some of the area private schools that Talcott Mountain Academy graduates have attended:

Avon Old Farms School (Avon) (boys/boarding & day)

Canterbury School (New Milford) (coed/boarding & day)

Chase Collegiate (Waterbury) (coed /day)

Cheshire Academy (Cheshire) (coed/boarding & day)

Choate-Rosemary Hall (Wallingford) (coed/boarding & day)

Deerfield Academy (Deerfield, MA) (coed/boarding)

East Catholic High School (Manchester) (coed/day)

Ethel Walker School (Simsbury) (girls/boarding & day)

Groton School (Groton, MA) (coed/boarding)

The Gunnery School (Washington) (coed/boarding & day)

Hebrew High School of New England (West Hartford) (coed/day)

High Mowing School (Wilton, NH) (coed/boarding & day)