DCPS schools with good music programs
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Anonymous
| Are there any DCPS schools that have a strong music or arts program at the elementary (or middle) school levels? Asking for a musically inclined young kiddo entering K in the near term. |
Anonymous
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ITDS has a musical but only grades 2-8 are in it. The music teacher is okay.
Maybe Eaton? I know some schools have DC Youth Orchestra violin lessons after school. |
Anonymous
| Takoma has band and orchestra, and the DCYOP practices take place there on weekends (and are free for TKES students). The school has an arts integrated curriculum. |
Anonymous
| Eaton has a fantastic program and it feeds to Hardy which also has a strong music program. We have been very happy. |
Anonymous
| Ludlow-Taylor has a pretty strong music program with very inexpensive afterschool options in choir, keyboards, drums & more; the teacher also lets kids reserve the music room to practice during their lunch times if it's free. They also have an extremely robust afterschool dance program and a great K-5 spring musical. |
Anonymous
| Wells has three or four levels of orchestra as well as a ukulele class. The teacher is really fantastic. |
Anonymous
Honestly, the Walls top level orchestra just isn't too hot as compared to those at middling suburban programs in the DMV. No great shakes. |
Anonymous
PP said Wells, not Walls. |
Anonymous
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The city overall is completely lacking in any sort of good music program in the schools. That is the reality. If you want that, you need to move to the burbs.
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Anonymous
| Brent has an amazing music teacher who has done a lot for my kids' musical education. But I'm not sure that's what you meant by a music program. |
Anonymous
| Stuart-Hobson has orchestra, jazz band, gogo band, musical theater, visual art and museum studies. A lot of kids from there have been accepted to Duke Ellington. |
Anonymous
| Key hired a superhero-terrific music teacher from Fillmore who stood up the Key School Band from scratch. They were the first elementary school to play at the DCPS performing arts festival at the Kennedy Center, a few years ago (I think now there's are others). |
Anonymous
There are quite a few now. L-T’s choir & its keyboard orchestra both perform. |
Anonymous
Yes, but he's not in a position to provide free instrumental music lessons to the kids, other than on the recorder, because DCPS doesn't fund such a program. In MoCo, the kids get instrumental music lessons at school daily from 4th grade if they want them. MoCo works in close partnership with Strathmore in Bethesda to support MCYO (MD Classic Youth Orchestra programs, many ensembles). DCPS has no equivalent, not even close. |
Anonymous
I’m sure it’s not the same, but the music teacher at our DCPS ES does formal keyboard instruction to all students beginning in 3rd. |