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The Schilling School For Gifted Children
8100 Cornell Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45249
Ph: 513-489-8940 Fax: 513-489-8941
Email: schillingoffice@yahoo.com
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Schilling School for Gifted Children is an independent coeducational institution founded in 1997, chartered by the Ohio Department of Education, and maintaining membership in the Ohio Association of Independent Schools. Nationally, it is one of only two schools serving gifted students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Percentage of students with IQs 130-144: 67%
Percentage of students with IQs 145-200: 33%
UNIQUE FACULTY:
Our faculty is comprised of gifted adults who are experienced teachers, subject specialists, and practitioners in their fields of expertise, many of whom are currently teaching at local universities.
Percentage of staff with Doctorates: 32%
CURRICULUM:
Both Lower School and Upper School academic programs are accelerated. All academic courses at the Upper School level are considered honors courses and many are taught at the college level. (i.e. Differential Equations, Discrete Math, Advanced Chinese, Asian Literature and History) Foreign language classes begin in kindergarten and continue through high school. 100% of Schilling graduates go on to college with 31% of Schilling alumni selected as National Merit Finalists and Commended Students.
Schilling students have been accepted at the following colleges and universities:
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Alfred University
American University
Antioch College
Bard College
Bates College
Beloit College
Boston College
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Centre College
Claremont McKenna College
College of Mount St. Joseph
College of Wooster
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Dairdson College
Denison University
DePauw University
Drew University
Dickinson College
Earlham College
Franklin and Marshall College
Grinnell College
Hampshire College
Harvey Mudd College
Haverford College
Hiram College
Illinois State University
Indiana University
Kalamazoo College
Kenyon College
Knox College
Longy School of Music
Manchester College
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Miami University—Oxford
Mount Holyoke College
Muskingum College
New College of Florida
New School University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Illinois University
Northland College
Oberlin College
Ohio Northern University
Ohio State University
Ohio University
Ohio Wesleyan University
Reed College
Rhodes College
Sarah Lawrence College
Simon's Rock College
Skidmore College
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Smith College
Southern Illinois University
Tufts University
Tulane University
United States Air Force Academy
University of Arizona
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado
University of Dayton
University of Illinois
University of Kentucky
University of Massachusetts
University of Michigan
University of Rochester
Washington University in St. Louis
Westminster College
Westmont College
Wheaton College
Willamette University
Wittenberg University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Wright State University
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From those to whom much is given, much is expected.
SCHOOL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
The Schilling School has the highest average SAT score among Greater Cincinnati public and private high schools (Cincinnati Magazine April 2003).
The Ohio Department of Education and the Canadian Department of Education requested permission to use the Schilling curriculum as a model.
Newsweek Magazines 1998 SCORE! Publication included a picture of a Schilling student taken in class during an interview regarding giftedness.
Special television reports focusing on gifted children have featured The Schilling School.
The school submitted 17 artistically decorated theme pigs, (more pigs than any other school in Cincinnati) to the Little Pig Gig, a piggyback to Cincinnatis phenomenally successful Big Pig Gig.
STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Two Schilling students have received perfect scores in the National Latin Exam.
A board game patent was awarded to a Schilling Lower School student, possibly the youngest patent holder in American history.
Four Schilling writers from grades 2, 8 and 9 have been published.
Three Schilling students received full scholarships to attend the Freedoms Foundation Camp at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Two Rotary International Exchange students were selected from Schilling: one studied in Taiwan for the 2001-2002 school year, one of only three of the 36 sponsored students from around the world selected to attend the top school in Taipei, and one studied in Japan for the 2003-2004 school year.
Upper level science students from Schilling attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in Washington, DC, and spent time with Stephen J. Gould, whose books had been studied in class and with whom they had corresponded.
FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Our Math/Science Department chair, who teaches Calculus, Differential Equations, Advanced Physical Mathematics, and Differential Phenomena, was nominated for a Nobel Prize. This brought him international acclaim, with his work featured in scientific books and international journals, including cover articles in Science and Naturwissenschaften. He has more than 50 scientific publications to his credit and is internationally regarded as an expert in Auger spectroscopy.
Our Environmental Science teacher, a researcher at the University of Cincinnati Medical School, has taught medical students and undergraduates and finds teaching gifted children at the Schilling School more stimulating intellectually.
Our U.S. Government and Law and Economics teacher is an attorney who comes to us from private practice.
Our Innovation and Creativity teacher is a retired professional engineer who received the highest engineering career award and taught graduate and undergraduate courses.
Our Comparative Religion teacher, prior to moving to the Greater Cincinnati area, was the denominational chaplain at Yale University.
Our Architecture teacher has been the Director of the School of Architecture and Interior Design of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.
Our oil painting teacher's painting of Emperor Tsar Alexander II Nikolaevich, Tsar of Russia, and Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, became a part of the permanent collection of the Tsarlcoye Selo Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia in January of 2008.
Our faculty has graduated from top tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, Columbia, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Vanderbilt, Emory, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Brandeis, Furman, University of California San Diego, University of Illinois, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Our faculty has taught at Yale, Penn, Brown, Michigan, Purdue, Indiana University, University of California Santa Barbara, U.S. Army, Northern Kentucky University, University of Toledo, Miami University and the University of Cincinnati. | | |
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NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
The Schilling School for Gifted Children, Inc. recruits and admits students of any race, color, or national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities. In addition, the School will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, scholarships/loans/fee waivers, educational programs and athletics/extracurricular activities. In addition, the School is not intended to be an alternative to court or administrative agency ordered, or public school district initiated, desegregation. The Schilling School for Gifted Children, Inc. will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion or national or ethnic origin in the hiring of its certified or non-certified personnel. | | |
