Founded
1991
Accreditation
Student Body
Boys and girls in Preschool to grade 8. 5:1 student:teacher ratio.
Faculty
80% of teachers hold advanced degrees.
Program
Pre K students work with specialists in Spanish, Music and Physical Education. Beginning in K-1, students work twice weekly with specialists in Science, Spanish, Music, Art, and Physical Education.
All middle school students take Spanish as a core subject and take Regents level Math and Earth Science in 8th grade.
Facility
23,000 square foot architect-designed building on 77 acres of meadows, woods and streams. Outdoor pavilion classroom, tree house classroom, and greenhouse. 5K trail system. Raised garden beds. Site of the Rensselaer County Master Gardeners Demonstration Gardens, Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Where do students come from?
Students hail from four counties and 13 school districts.
Transportation
Busing is available for students whose home school district is within 15 miles of Parker. Current districts busing to Parker: Averill Park, Bethlehem, Brittonkill, East Greenbush, Ichabod Crane, Guilderland, Lansingburg, North Colonie, Ravena-Coeymans, Schodack, South Colonie, Troy, Wynantskill. Note: Districts that do not bus students within their district, will not bus to Parker.
Families also arrange carpools from Albany, and the Chatham and Cambridge areas.
Where do students go after Parker?
Each year about half of our graduating eighth graders go to their local public high school and half to area independent schools and boarding schools. Because Parker students take advanced courses they are placed into advanced levels in high school. Click here for a list of schools that Parker students attend.
