The Harker School

  • Founded: 1893
  • Address: 500 Saratoga Ave., San Jose - California, United States (Map)
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Applying To Harker

We appreciate your interest in The Harker School, and we look forward to sharing more about our warm, inspiring and vibrant community with you and your family.

We invite you to submit an inquiry as the first step of the admission process. Harker‘s application uses Ravenna Solutions, and through your Ravenna account, you will be able to receive notifications from Harker, register for Harker admission events, and apply and track your progress toward application completion.

We hope the information here and the detailed application steps in the Harker Ravenna application [link “Harker Ravenna application” to www.ravenna-hub.com]) answers all your questions about the application process. Our goal is to make things as easy as possible. If you have any questions at any time after reviewing this information and the detailed steps in your Ravenna Harker application, please contact us!

Our standard points of entry are kindergarten and grades 3, 4, 6 and 9. New students may enter Harker at all grade levels except grade 12. In grades 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 11 the number of openings depends on attrition and there are usually more qualified applicants than spaces.

Application Process

Here is some information to give you an idea of the application process. Due date and application requirements are described in detail in Ravenna.

We look forward to meeting you!

Lower School K-5

Required Application Components

  • Application Checklist
  • Parent statement
  • Student photo
  • Family photo
  • Student activities
  • Cognitive assessment (K-2)
  • Current Year Teacher recommendation
  • Report cards/transcripts (1-5)
  • Classroom visit/entrance exam

Middle School 6-8

Required Application Components

  • Application Checklist
  • Parent statement
  • Current English teacher recommendation
  • Current Math teacher recommendation
  • Current Principal/Counselor recommendation
  • Transcripts
  • Proctored writing sample
  • Activity session (grade 6)

Optional

  • Entrance exam results (ISEE or SSAT). We have adopted a test optional model for applicants to grades 6-12 for the fall.
  • Prior English teacher recommendation

Upper School 9-11

Required Application Components

  • Application Checklist
  • Student essay
  • Student Activities and Interests
  • Interview
  • Parent statement
  • Current English teacher recommendation
  • Current Math teacher recommendation
  • Current Principal/Counselor recommendation
  • Transcripts
  • Proctored writing sample

Optional

  • Entrance exam results (ISEE or SSAT). We have adopted a test optional model for applicants to grades 6-12 for the fall.
  • Prior English teacher recommendation

Grades 10 and 11 applicants

Grade 10 and 11 applicants are invited to complete an interest form for applying to Harker. Due to the low probability of spaces in grades 10 and 11, we will contact you in the spring if we believe we will have any openings and invite you to complete an application then.

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