Private schools Plano

[DFWGuy422]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

Wow. Thank you for judging my faith. How very American Evangelical of you. Would you like to be my Celebrate Recovery sponsor at Watermark since you can clearly diagnose “church hurt” by reading a few internet posts a stranger wrote?

But, back to this post:

1. Where did I lead the OP wrong? He said they are not religious and all three of PCA, LCA, & TCA require a signed statement of faith & letter from pastor to apply. That is a fact and not disparaging these schools.

2. By the metrics used to evaluate any school for strength of academics (SAT, AP pass rates & participation, & college acceptances / matriculation), those three schools do not stack up well against the top private schools in DFW. They post SAT scores hundreds of points below the top academic schools, including 100+ point variance between the premier Catholic and Episcoal high schools . As you said, where a family chooses to educate their children is based on what’s right for that family - it’s not ridiculing them to say that families self-selecting these schools put a priority on Bible-based classroom, not the classic academic classroom.

There is a reason why so many families drive from Frisco, Plano, McKinney, etc into Dallas to attend Greenhill, ESD, St Marks, Jesuit, Hockaday, Ursuline, Parish, etc - there are no comprable private schools in Collin County.

From what I’ve observed TCA doesn’t belong in the same academic category as PCA. It’s very religious, hence why I didn’t recommend it to OP, but it’s pretty in-line with the other privates academically IMO. In fact, I know some who went with TCA over Parish

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by DFWGuy422

From what I’ve observed TCA doesn’t belong in the same academic category as PCA. It’s very religious, hence why I didn’t recommend it to OP, but it’s pretty in-line with the other privates academically IMO. In fact, I know some who went with TCA over Parish

TCA is a step above, for sure. I would put it on par with Jesuit, Ursuline & Parish based on stats.

I know families leaving ESD & Parish for TCA but they’re leaving because those schools aren’t conservative / Christian enough, not for academic reasons.

[DFWGuy422]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

TCA is a step above, for sure. I would put it on par with Jesuit, Ursuline & Parish based on stats.

I know families leaving ESD & Parish for TCA but they’re leaving because those schools aren’t conservative / Christian enough, not for academic reasons.

I’m shocked that ESD is considered not conservative enough by some. The families I know from ESD are uniformly very conservative — perhaps the admin. isn’t.