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Originally Posted by Nancy
I have heard a couple of second-hand stories like this, but when I check the stats for Bishop Carroll on provincial exam scores, graduation rates, time to complete diploma, etc., Bishop Carroll does quite well. (Excellent, in fact.) St. Mary's is one of our other options, I don't know what it was like when you went there, but these days it does not look so good. So, it's either Ernest or Carroll for our son.
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Unfortunately, St Mary's took a nosedive when it became more of a district school. It used to be a specialty school in that it only took mostly kids who did full IB (like I did). It was the third best academic school in Calgary in 1998 when I graduated behind Western and Churchill. By the time my sister got to High school in 2003, she switched to the Public School system because in terms of pure academics, they were much better.
Only you know your son best, I know in hindsight I would've probably had problems in Carroll based on my group of close friends, but thats because I have always needed a teacher to kick me in the butt when I was behind as a teenager lol