Please tell me about Mater Dei

[Anonymous]

Looking for any information. Academic rigor? What tier schools it compares to? Community? Is there transportation from VA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking for any information. Academic rigor? What tier schools it compares to? Community? Is there transportation from VA?

Strongly Catholic
Little Diversity
Most students are from Bethesda, Potomac, NW DC, Kensington and Rockville. Not an impossible commute from Virginia if you live cluse to the American Legion bridge.
40 students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades
30 0f the 40 graduates end up at Georgetown Prep. Graduates also go to Gonzaga and St Johns.
Curriculum and Instruction are aimed at qualifying boys for one of these Catholic schools, not Sidwell or St Albans level.
Famous (or infamous) for boys that have been red-shirted. New students may be asked to repeat a grade.
Athletics are a big deal especially lacrosse, football and basketball.
All male teachers in grades 6-8. Many of them are also coaches.

Probably most similar school is Landon (All boys, male teachers, emphasis of athletics, redshirting. But Landon is rarely considered by the families that send their boys to Mater Dei or Georgetown Prep.

[Anonymous]

Country Club Level: High.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Country Club Level: High.

Especially Columbia and Congressional.

[Anonymous]

Great school!

[Anonymous]

Best student parking lot in K-8 education

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best student parking lot in K-8 education

One other thing about Mater Dei.

Parents of players on teams that lose to Mater Dei reason that it must be the boys are older. It couldn’t possibly be that they are better athletes who are better coached. The PP is an example of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best student parking lot in K-8 education

One other thing about Mater Dei.

Parents of players on teams that lose to Mater Dei reason that it must be the boys are older. It couldn’t possibly be that they are better athletes who are better coached. The PP is an example of that.

Sounds like PP hit a nerve.

[Anonymous]

Lots of nice kids, but a handful of bullies who set the culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best student parking lot in K-8 education

One other thing about Mater Dei.

Parents of players on teams that lose to Mater Dei reason that it must be the boys are older. It couldn’t possibly be that they are better athletes who are better coached. The PP is an example of that.

I know nothing of the school as a non-Catholic parent of HS kids that lives in Arlington with kids going to school in DC. That said, any parent that “defends” the athletic performance of middle school kids as “they’re just better atheletes” imputes a certain mega-prickish culture among the families.

[Anonymous]

Awesome school! My son loves it there!

[Anonymous]

Basketball teams were getting crushed in the winter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best student parking lot in K-8 education

One other thing about Mater Dei.

Parents of players on teams that lose to Mater Dei reason that it must be the boys are older. It couldn’t possibly be that they are better athletes who are better coached. The PP is an example of that.

I know nothing of the school as a non-Catholic parent of HS kids that lives in Arlington with kids going to school in DC. That said, any parent that “defends” the athletic performance of middle school kids as “they’re just better atheletes” imputes a certain mega-prickish culture among the families.

Bingo! Tells you all you need to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of nice kids, but a handful of bullies who set the culture.

The handful of boys in my neighborhood who attend that school are not the nicest ones of all the kids.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean Mater Delay?