Relocating with 9th grade girl- serious student

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC private schools are not big on math acceleration. my daughter at NCS is on track for calc BC in 11th and she's one of 10 or so kids in this cohort and nobody is more accelerated than this.
My son applied for 9th and he was on track for calc BC in 10th. GDS was open to keeping him on this track. Sidwell has fantastic math but does a sequence of classes called math 1, 2, 3, 4 for their strongest math students. Had he attended Sidwell he would have gone into Math 1 in 9th (after taking geometry in 7th and algebra 2 in 8th at his previous school.

In general though, the privates around here do not accelerate kids in math. your daughter will be an anomaly.

Maret accelerates for math. My DC was in multivariable calc in 12th grade. There were maybe 18 kids in the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC private schools are not big on math acceleration. my daughter at NCS is on track for calc BC in 11th and she's one of 10 or so kids in this cohort and nobody is more accelerated than this.
My son applied for 9th and he was on track for calc BC in 10th. GDS was open to keeping him on this track. Sidwell has fantastic math but does a sequence of classes called math 1, 2, 3, 4 for their strongest math students. Had he attended Sidwell he would have gone into Math 1 in 9th (after taking geometry in 7th and algebra 2 in 8th at his previous school.

In general though, the privates around here do not accelerate kids in math. your daughter will be an anomaly.

Maret accelerates for math. My DC was in multivariable calc in 12th grade. There were maybe 18 kids in the class.

Also St Andrews Episcopal and Stone Ridge offer accelerated math. DD doing PhD in advanced math now and scored perfectly on SAT math, AP math and multi variable cal in HS. I think many other good privates in area offer accelerated math without pressure that all students are expected to be on similar tracks. Good private schools also have strong arts programs and a range of athletic teams that youth of varying abilities can participate in.

There are many good options in DMV apart from the mythical Big 3.

I would explore different schools and see where your DD can imagine herself being happy.

[Anonymous]

Adding that I am pretty sure all privates have kids in multivariable calc or above. I have sons so don’t know girls school as well but can’t imagine they don’t if the boys schools do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, in your shoes, I would seriously consider delaying your move until your DD graduates. Or have the parent changing jobs commute if that is your situation.

In your shoes I’d consider boarding school.

As someone whose kids went to NE boarding schools, I'd second this.