Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments Anyone familiar with Quest Academy in Palatine,IL?

I thought The Elgin Academy was a high school. We will be touring The Einstein Academy in Elgin next week. We have been waiting until after dd tests tomorrow. DS already qualifies for any of the schools based on his testing from December.

Thanks Jedimom. That is a really useful summary of all the area options!

We were also looking at houses in Lake Zurich last summer, the public schools do look great there.

Quest has a very good math team. That is the extent of what I know about them.

Schools that feed into Stevenson High might be worth checking out as well. You can find info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_High_School_(Lincolnshire,_Illinois)

Elgin Academy is Pre-K - 12th grade. They only accelerate in Math starting in 7th grade unless it was done in a previous school.

Northwestern CTD is in the process of making them a host site for most programs from K-12 for the Northwest suburbs for AWE and summer camps. They have been hosting the Explore ACT for several years.

I know many Quest students filter into Elgin Academy for high school and seem to be successful there.

I have two friends who started at Einstein Academy this year and absolutely love it, but their kids have not been identified as gifted. I've been on their campus for basketball games and the students there are very polite and courteous.

Einstein Academy accepts students in the 80th percentile and above from what I have read on the website. I want to find out if the accelerate or what because 80th percentile is very different from 98th and 99th (my kids)