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Types of Boarding Schools

There are many different types of Boarding Schools. The most widely known are the Traditional Boarding Schools. Traditional Boarding schools are schools that are looking for students who are academic overachievers, whose main thought processes are school and only school. They are the upper echelon of schools and produce highly motivated college students.

There are some Traditional Boarding schools that offer day programs, meaning, although the school is a Boarding School, they also allow "day" students to attend, for academic services only. Day students often live very close to campus so they arrive when school starts and go home at the end of the school day. There are Partial Boarding Schools, where the student would arrive at the school at the beginning of the school week and leave at the end of the week, spending the weekend at home.

Therapeutic or Specialty Boarding Schools are making a name for themselves as great alternatives to public school systems. Students who are struggling academically, behaviorally, emotionally, sometimes even legally, have a chance to enter a structured setting where the only thing they have to work on is themselves. Outside influences and a zero tolerance for bad behavior are removed. Self acceptance and strong support from qualified staff, allow children who would probably have ended up not even finishing high school, to go on to attend some of the most prestigious colleges available.

There are Parochial Boarding Schools are schools that implement a religious education right along side of the academic education. Schools such as Brigham Young University and Notre Dame are parochial schools.

Military Boarding Schools can be a couple of different things. Traditional Military Boarding school would consist of schools like Carson Long Military Institute and Army and Navy Academy. Schools where the military aspect of it is serving our country. The other military schools are schools that are for teens who have broken the law and are in need of a "wake up" to get them back on the right track.