Admissions

Process

Calendar

Tuition Aid

Online Common Application for ISSL Schools

WELCOME

We appreciate your interest in Burroughs and welcome you to our web site. We value each applicant, and, through the course of the admissions process, we attempt to get to know each candidate as best as we can. Above all, we want to be available to you.  Please contact us if you need more information about a topic that interests you or if you need additional materials.  I can be reached at clavigne@jburroughs.org or 314.993.4045 ext. 227 and my assistant, Nancy Vogt, is at extension 242 and nvogt@jburroughs.org.

There are several steps in the admissions process, including a school visit, an interview, recommendations, and an examination.  No one factor is more important than another. Please take a moment to review Admissions Process and Admissions Calendar for basic information.  And if you are in fifth grade, you might be interested in an optional preliminary step – a practice test we offer in the spring before your sixth grade year which can help identify areas you might want to review before taking the entrance exam which is required to complete your application.

Please remember that the entrance exam is only one part of the application. When we are making admissions decisions, we carefully examine the complete file on each applicant.  

We realize everyone has something to contribute and honestly wish that we could accept everyone who applies.  But generally, there are more qualified applicants than we have space for, and we are committed to maintaining our small grade size, a seventh grade class of approximately 90-95 students. 

No specific type of student is sought; each individual is considered for who he or she is, as well as for who he or she might become.  We are also interested in the diversity of the class. We seek students with different abilities and skills – academic, musical, artistic, and athletic. We want children from different backgrounds, cultures and view points.  Our student body comes from a large number of elementary schools (typically between 20-30 schools) and from a wide range of communities in and around metropolitan St. Louis. While preference is given to siblings and children of alumni, each year more than half of the incoming 7th grade is new to our community.

We hope you will have fun exploring us on-line.  Lots of other opportunities to get acquainted with Burroughs are ahead.  I look forward to working with you and your family.


Sincerely,
Caroline LaVigne  '92
Director of Admissions & Tuition Aid

755 S. Price Road
St. Louis, MO 63124
Phone: 314-993-4040
E-Mail: admiss@jburroughs.org

revised 09/05/07