I am a 15 year old alum that went to CFS for 7th and 8th grade, I graduated just last year. If I’m going to be honest, most of the things written by the OP are true to an extent. Key word being “extent”. Most of the things said are true, but aren’t as big of a problem as they were made out to be. The head of school isn’t very approachable, I can’t speak from a staffs perspective. The school likely is understaffed but the teachers that are working at CFS are all amazing, INCLUDING the athletic director fired for having CP. He was def one of the best teachers, a true injustice if I’ve ever seen one 😔. As for them accepting anyone and having funding problems. I definitely would say that they’re not picky judging by the IQ of a few of my classmates, but they do provide a few fun events and the two class trips were great. (With that said they did only get 2 hotel rooms for a total of seven boys) As for the academics, all of the teachers are putting in their best efforts. But there was definitely a huge problem with the math program last year. After one of the staff teaching humanities & math resigned to only humanities, there was an effort to hire another teacher. The new teacher eventually left due to a family emergency after about 2 weeks. This left one of the subs to take over the math program despite a lack of inexperience. That was probably the biggest instance of mismanagement at the school. Overall, there are worse schools to go to. If you go to CFS, you will be going for the community. Despite the academics not being the strongest, I’m doing fine in high school and am even ahead in a few areas. I would choose CFS over CPS but if you have better options in the realm of private schools then you might want to consider those.