Beyond Post Oak
Prospective parents often ask, "Where do your students go when they leave The Post Oak School?" Each year we work closely with the schools where our students apply, and wait eagerly for the acceptance letters in March. We look forward to the news of high-school acceptances, and on to our older alumni's college selections and then professional careers.
Graduates of our Middle School have a variety of choices when seeking admission into schools, both private and public. Over the past five years, 97% of Post Oak graduates have been accepted to their first or second choice of high school—we include two choices to allow for the healthy tendency to apply to “stretch” schools. Then the school tracks alumni performance for the first grading period in their new high schools. Some high schools grade on a four-point scale; students in those schools in 2007-8 had a composite grade-point average of 3.2. Other schools grade on a 100-point scale; Post Oak graduates in those schools had a composite average of 92.
After Post Oak, our alumni go on to an outstanding array of high schools and universities nationwide, pursuing a variety of majors and interests. Every January the school hosts an Alumni Night, at which alumni return from high school, university, or adult professional life to talk about their Post Oak experiences and how they prepared them for life. We encourage interested visitors to attend, to hear from the young people themselves how well prepared they found themselves to be.
