Analy provides school guidance counseling at an approximate ratio of 300 students to one full-time counselor.  We presently have 4.6 counseling positions.In 2008, for the first time, we've decided to have a dedicated counselor for incoming ninth grade students. Our plan is to "graduate" students after grade 9 to the counselor they will keep for their final three years in high school.

Analy also offers career counseling services through our Career Center.  All students go through a progression of career counseling, starting in grade 9. The Career Center is located in the school library.

Most parents don't realize it, but we also host MFT counselors four days per week, who meets with students individually when referred by parents, teachers or students, themselves. These counselors will often screen a student who is having serious adjustment issues and will often assist in referral to outside agencies or providers.

Counseling staff do a little of everything, but our primary responsibility is to work with the students to ensure that, when they graduate from our school, they are prepared for their post-secondary plans, whether that be going to a two or four-year college, a tech school or the world of work.  We help students with schedules, advocate for students with administration and teachers, discuss grades and study habits, review credit requirements, help with college applications and SATs, just to name a few things.  We also make ourselves available to help with personal issues if a parent or child requests it.

Our involvement with students varies by grade.  Generally speaking, we try to meet with students at least once per semester.  Usually, we meet with a majority of our caseloads more than once a semester.  From experience, we find that we meet with 70 to 80% of our caseload around scheduling issues in the first month of school.  Except in the hectic first weeks of the fall semester, we try to take advantage of our opportunities to meet with students to address more than one issue at a time.

A good rule of thumb is to remember that we attempt to honor all requests to see us within a reasonable time frame.  Generally, in the beginning weeks of the fall semester, we will field up to one hundred requests daily, so it may take three or four days to get back to your student.  Once we are underway, we usually get back to students within twenty four hours.  Things do go wrong, at times.  Teachers do not pass on our "call slips" if they are engaged in an important activity.  Students may be in the library when we send for them.  Tell your student to be persistent.  They shouldn't feel they are "bugging" us if they put in multiple requests to see us.  We are also available on a "drop-in" basis on Tuesdays and Thursdays during tutorial, before the school day begins.