Each year students at The Rhoades School take the IOWA Tests of Basic Skills, a reliable, nationally normed academic achievement test. Achievement is assessed, and then reported by national percentile scores for our students. Through percentiles, families can learn how their students rank among other students in the same grade across the country.

At the same time the school can learn its ranking nationally. The high scores of Rhoades students in 2007 again rank the school itself in the 99th percentile, or the top one percent of all schools in the nation taking the IOWA Tests this year. Likewise, each grade level at The Rhoades School ranks in the 99th percentile.

The average Rhoades student reading score is at the 95th percentile, and the math score is at the 96th percentile.

Eighty-six percent of our students in grades 5-8 qualified for the Johns Hopkins University and/or the UCI Talent Searches this year.

Rhoades students typically attend college preparatory high schools in the community, including The Bishop's School, La Jolla Country Day, Francis Parker, Cathedral High School, Canyon Crest High School, Torrey Pines High School, San Dieguito Academy, La Costa Canyon High School, Rancho Buena Vista High School, Pacific Ridge, and St. Paul's School.

Universities attended by our alumni include Amherst College, Boston College, Brigham Young University, Brown University, California Institute of the Arts, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the Claremont Colleges, Dartmouth, Davidson College, Duke, Harvard, Haverford, Loyola Marymount, Middlebury, M.I.T., New York University, Northwestern, Occidental College, Oxford, Princeton, Purdue, Smith, Stanford, Swarthmore, Tulane, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCI, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, University of Arizona, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, United States Naval Academy, Wellesley, and other highly respected universities.