Notre Dame is the co-ed Holy Cross high school on Riverside Drive in Sherman Oaks — ten minutes from my desk, and the closest Catholic high school to Studio City. I tutor its applicants through the HSPT, and its enrolled students through the year — one-on-one, at your home or online. Every session is with me.
Clear Concepts Tutoring is an independent tutoring practice and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Notre Dame High School. I tutor students who attend or are applying to the school.
Different needs, different plans.
Path one · Applying
Notre Dame gives the HSPT on its own campus on Saturday, January 23, 2027; applying and paying the fee registers your student automatically. A composite of 95 or above, taken at Notre Dame, earns an automatic merit scholarship — which turns one eighth-grade morning into real tuition money. We start with a full timed diagnostic and build backward from the date.
Path two · Enrolled
Nearly every Notre Dame student sits at least one AP exam before graduating. I support enrolled students with steady weekly sessions across math, English, the sciences and history — not emergency scrambling the week before finals.
One accountable person with a phone number — not an agency roster. The rhythm below is the same one every family on my calendar gets.
I've worked with LA independent- and neighborhood-school families since 2013. The expectations, the calendars, and the pace are all familiar ground.
Sessions intensify before assessment weeks and ease after. The plan follows your student's actual calendar, not a generic curriculum binder.
I work until 9 PM, in-home across my service area or online — so sessions land after practice or after dinner — not in the middle of a working parent's afternoon.
Same tutor in September and in May, and a written note to you after every single session. You always know where things stand.
Yes — both eighth graders applying to Notre Dame and students already enrolled there.
Applicants get HSPT prep built around Notre Dame's January test date; enrolled students get year-round support across the core subjects. Either way, every session is with me, in your home or online.
Notre Dame administers the HSPT on Saturday, January 23, 2027, at its Sherman Oaks campus, and a composite of 95 or above earned there brings an automatic merit scholarship.
Admission depends on transcripts, the HSPT, an interview, and eighth-grade English and math recommendations. Check Notre Dame's admissions page for the current date; my HSPT page explains how I prepare students for it.
No — Clear Concepts is an independent tutoring practice, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Notre Dame High School.
What I bring is thirteen years of working with families at LA's independent, Catholic and neighborhood schools — as an outside, accountable tutor with a phone number.