Post by Jeremy B.

Six years ago, with a founding team that had more ambition than infrastructure, we began building an academic programme from nothing. A year later, Stratford Preparatory Blackford opened its doors. Today, that work has a name — 65 of them, in fact. Watching the first graduating class earn acceptances to over 100 universities worldwide — including Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, the University of Cambridge and many more — and seeing 14% recognised as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, is something worth pausing to mark. Congratulations, Class of 2026! (And to the founding leadership team — a quiet but sincere thank you for your early investment in this programme and the students now graduating from it.)