Calhoun School

New York · NY · Private independent · K-12 combined

Private

At a glance

Programs & features
  • Teaches no APCollege-level courses with a national exam each May. A score of 3+ "passes" and can earn college credit; the pass rate tells you whether a school's AP program has substance behind the course list.-designated courses — common among independent schools that run their own advanced curriculum

Composed from the school's own published profile (2020), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Calhoun School compares for families

What families should know about Calhoun School.

  • LocallyNY sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: The Smith School, The IDEAL School of Manhattan, Robert Louis Stevenson School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Your state's public flagship

Stony Brook University

49%
admit rate
$10,931
in-state tuition/yr · $32,741 out-of-state
1320–1490
SAT 25–75 · ACT 28–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $18,784/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Pay for college in New York

New York's public scholarships

New York's Excelsior Scholarship makes SUNY and CUNY tuition-free for middle-income families — there's no GPA or test gate, but you commit to staying in New York after you graduate.

Promise Excelsior Scholarship
Free SUNY/CUNY tuition (last-dollar, up to $5,500/yr)
Income: Household AGI ≤ $125,000

Tuition-free SUNY/CUNY for NY families under $125k AGI — no GPA or test gate, but you must stay on track and live in New York after graduating. (Stay on-track (30 credits/yr); live & work in NY afterward for the years you received it.)

Official program details ↗

Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

Calhoun School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 122 colleges, in the document's own order.

Years, as the document states them
2015-2019

Academy of Media Arts Cologne American University American University of Paris Arizona State University University of Arizona Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Bennington College Berklee College of Music Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brown University Bucknell University CalArts University of California Los Angeles Carleton College Chapman University University of Chicago Clark University Cleveland Institute of Music Colgate University University of Colorado Boulder Colorado College Columbia University Concordia University Connecticut College University of Connecticut
and 92 more
Cornell University CUNY/Macaulay Honors College Dalhousie University Dartmouth College Davidson College Delaware Valley University University of Delaware Drew University Drexel University Elon University Emerson College Emory University Fairfield University Fashion Institute of Technology Fordham University Franklin & Marshall College George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology Gettysburg College Goucher College Hampshire College Harvard University Haverford College Indiana University Ithaca College Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Leeds College of Art & Design Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College LIM College Loyola University Maryland Loyola University New Orleans Manhattan College Maryland Institute College of Art University of Massachusetts Miami University University of Miami University of Michigan Muhlenberg College The New School New York University Northwestern University Oberlin College University of Oregon Pace University Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania Pitzer College Pratt Institute Princeton University Purdue University Quinnipiac University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rhodes College University of Richmond University of Rochester Royal Holloway, University of London Sarah Lawrence College Savannah College of Art & Design School of Visual Arts Skidmore College Smith College University of Southern California Stony Brook University SUNY Binghamton SUNY Geneseo SUNY Purchase Susquehanna University Swarthmore College Syracuse University University of Tampa Temple University Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University Union College University of Vermont Villanova University Virginia Tech Wake Forest University Wellesley College Wesleyan University Wheaton College MA College of William and Mary Williams College University of Wisconsin The College of Wooster Xavier University Yale University

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Calhoun School — Calhoun School: The Facts and the Figures 2019–2020 ↗. Found at: p.4, 'MATRICULATIONS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS BY INSTITUTION (2015-2019)' — a 3-column bare list, no counts.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 691 in 2018 to 565 in 2022 — over 4 years.
-18.2%
Why only 3 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

For a more current snapshot, see Calhoun School's own published school profile (as of 2020-21): resources.finalsite.net/images/v1572569056/calhou… ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -4.9%/year, projecting from 2022's 565 students:

2023
537
2025
486
2027
439

≈ 126 fewer students by 2027 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At tuition per student, the 126 students projected to be lost by 2027 represent ≈ $2,016,000/year in tuition at risk.

Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.

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