Specialties
Since 1969, Educational Services has been helping students achieve their highest potential on standardized tests, academic work, executive function coaching, and college essays. ES is a family-owned company that offers a comprehensive approach to test preparation and academic tutoring, and delivers highly-personalized attention through 1-to-1 sessions. ES's goal is to ensure each family feels well-informed about all options available with each step of the testing/tutoring process, and to ensure the process is as comfortable, fun, and effective as possible for the students.
History
Established in 1969.
In the 1960's, Avery Snyder worked at The Agnes Irwin School teaching both Math and English to high school juniors and seniors. Of course, all of his students were taking the PSAT and SAT and he wondered why his academically-inclined students were bombing the test, and even more amazingly, why were his less gifted students scoring so high.
Avery enrolled to take the SAT again at age 22. He learned that the test had little to do with what he was teaching in the academic classroom, and that there seemed to be too little time to be thorough. Also, there were the same patterns repeated over and over again. This test was beatable!
In 1969 Avery began tutoring his Agnes Irwin students one-to-one after school for the SAT. The results were amazing. Avery approached headmistress Anne Lenox who reviewed the results and suggested that he start his own licensed private school to benefit area-students. ES was founded, and Anne left Agnes Irwin to work for ES the next year. The rest is history.
Meet the Business Owner: Julia T.
I was raised in the world of test preparation and academic tutoring. As a child, I used to work on SATs (instead of coloring books since tests were readily available) in the waiting room of ES as my father Avery Snyder (the founder of ES) spoke with families about how to help their children. His passion for education and helping students open doors to their future was contagious and made it an easy decision for me and my sister (and co-director) Alexandra to take the helm in later years. We have made a commitment to embody Avery's passion, depth of knowledge, and openness to helping all students.
As a family-owned company, we treat our team and client-families like our own family. If the student is successful, the family is successful, and ES is successful. We're all in the same boat together, and we're ready to help you navigate the world of testing and academics!