Eastwoods, Oyster Bay school experiences

[SeventhFloor]

I must say, interesting commentary regarding the North Shore, admittedly it is a part of LI I do not frequent. If anything, I am relegated to the South Shore and/including Five Towns Area. So thank you to all who provided some insight for OP, as it is definitely some knowledge to be learned.

[twingles]

Originally Posted by kmrlongisland

You are concerning yourself over nothing. If you feel comfortable spending 60k of gross income on East Woods you will fit right in. I would guess the median household income of an East Woods family is about 250-300k.

I would love to know what "school’s program offerings have everything I could hope for". I will guarantee every north shore public elementary school has the same "program". You do know the teacher turnover at these privates is quite high due to the low pay scale of their teachers? In the public schools a teacher can make $100k+ after about 7-8 years. Very few teachers at the privates make $100k. What kind of talent do you think the privates are attracting when offering less than 50% of the public compensation?

And yes, I have lived on the north shore for a long time and know teacher's, parent's and student's of East Woods, Greenvale, Friends, St. Mary's , Chaminade, etc ... and have heard the pros and cons of attending private over public.

Privates also don't care if you have a master's or not. My sister is a teacher at a Catholic school in NY, not only does she not have a masters her degree is not even in education.

My other sister (who does have a masters) interviewed at the Portledge school once and she was not interested after seeing the facilities.