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Originally Posted by Suburbsearching
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. What is Fox Lane like? Are people happy with it?
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Unlike Chappaqua, John Jay etc FLHSis surprisingly diverse owing to the minority population in Mt Kisco. This means resources for ESL etc and a significant group that is not college bound. OTOH, there are also preppies and the Ivy-bound. If your kids would be ivy-bound in Scarsdale they'd be equally so at FLHS. So, for those looking for an excellent school with some diversity, the same diversity that drags down average test scores and perturbs the test-score-obsessed, it's an amazing school with amazing resources.
FLHS is surprisingly mixed socially. "Style" groups exist (preppies, emo/goth, artsy etc) but boundires are porous so movement between groups/styles is relatively easy and fluid. The social boundaries aren't concrete walls. Pound Ridge is called "Pound Rich." Still, PR'ers mix with Mt K and Bedford Hills kids and vice versa. Ditto Bedford.
And, like anywhere, there's always somebody with a horror story of some kind. FLHS is and there are drugs (like everyplace else) and there are parties (like everyplace else). What's different from the downcounty bored-rich-kids-partying-on-drugs phenomenon is that there are so many huge houses on huge lots. If the guy next door is separated by 400 feet of woods there's effectively nobody next door to call the cops. And parents have the resources to travel, so there are some epics. But this plays out the same way in Chappaqua, New Canaan, etc.
What's telling is that some fabulously wealthy Bedford folks send their kids there
because of the diversity. Case in point: one of my son's classmates and buddies was Rooney Mara (girl with draggon tatoo, daughter of John Mara of the NY Giants dynasty). There are lots of other kids from similarly situated families.
[Full disclosure: both my kids and a niece went through PRES and FLHS (classes of 2003, 2005 and 2009) + 2 more nieces there now. All are doing great, the college grads all went to sub-ivies.]