I read the WaPo and the NYTimes everyday (LA Times when I lived there), and I still never heard of TJ until relatively recently. I can’t name a single famous TJ alum (or any famous TJ parents), but I can name several from Sidwell, STA, Gonzaga, GDS, Prep. |
Lazy? Why are you resorting to name calling? I have never been interested enough to lookup where SCt. Justices send their children. |
There was a movie about this where Annette Benning played the Head of School and Ben Kingsley played the murdered doctor. |
That makes Madeira infamous, not famous. |
To answer Op - STA, NCS, and Sidwell
Bush family, Roosevelts, Shrivers, John Kerry, Gore either attended themselves or sent kids to either STA or NCS or both schools - definitely was aware of both of those Obamas and Clintons to Sidwell |
You wrote “if true”. Rather than look it up. Ya l consider that lazy. It’s not name calling. |
Roosevelts and Nixons also attended/graduated from Sidwell. |
🙄 No one cares about GDS that much. Move along. |
Not every school on this list is recognizable to the casual basketball fan, but many hardcore hoops fans are familiar with teams in the top ten, including #5. https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/greatest-high-school-basketball-teams-de1f0baf83734149 |
BIM is the most famous. Ranked nationally. Everyone else doesn't matter. |
True. BIM was recently ranked the #1 private school in the DMV, and one of the top nationally. |
Who? What? |
Stop trying to make Prep happen. Absolutely nobody knows them outside DC/MD. |
I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.
WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football. |
Probably the most well known schools are:
Sierra Canyon (Kardashians/jenners/bronny) Crossroads (so many celebs) Beverly Hills High School (same; shout out to West Beverly too ) Andover Exeter Permian (Friday Night Lights) IMG Academy (sports factory across multiple sports) St. Vincent-St. Mary (lebron; because he didn’t play college this one has a higher profile) Lower Merion (Kobe; same) Laguna Hills (Hills, Laguna, etc. this is fading but still a fairly broad demo) Sidwell (Clintons/Obamas). Nothing else in DC is on this level of name ID. Not sure what from NYC breaks through — could see a case for Dalton, Spence, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant but none seem that famous to like an average person in the Midwest. This is macabre but the most famous are probably actually the ones with major tragedies like Columbine and the like. |