Most famous DC Private

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While it's true that Josh Hart may have been a journeyman before joining the Knicks, he's now firmly in the limelight and leads the league in postseason minutes. By the time his current deal ends, he will have made over $100M in salary. ESPN.com published a piece recently about his Sidwell roots.

All that said, I agree that it's ridiculous for PP to have cited him as evidence for category 3. He's hardly a no-name player though. Journeymen don't have over 800K IG followers.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Laguna Hills? Kardashians? Friday Night Lights? Lol! When is the last time you read a book? Only reality tv watchers know those schools or people.

Further more OP said DC schools.

I think we're getting to the heart of this pointless conversation.

98 percent of people don't think about famous private schools. If you're in the 2 percent who do, you can probably be broadly split into three categories:

1. those who are close to major population areas who think about the traditional definition of education eliteness. These are the people who think of and definitely have heard of St. Albans, Sidwell, Madeira, Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Choate, Hotchkiss, Dalton, Chicago Latin, Lawrenceville, et al

2. those who watch a lot of TV and care about things like where the Kardashians send their kids, and I guess then you know about Laguna High School or whatever it is

3. people who follow sports closely, who are likely to know all kinds of batshit no-name highschools that play national sports schedules, and a handful of famous jock schools (St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, IMG Academy etc) and on that list are several notable DC area schools... If you're the kind of person who knows anything about where NBA players come from, you definitely know DeMatha... And, I had to look this up, but apparently, the school that has sent the most kids to the NBA is Oak Hill Academy, in Dulles. Love it or hate it, Gonzaga has moved onto that list of private schools that are well known by people who pay attention to sports highschool hotspots.

Either way, tldr, almost nobody knows of any highschools. In the select world of nerds/freaks and weirdos who do, DMV does okay.

LOL Oak Hill Academy is south of Roanoke, 5.5 hours from DMV. Not the same as Oak Hill Christian. It grew in popularity after Kevin Durant attended for a year or two before coming back to MD. It's a similar school as IMG.

Agreed, but categories 2 and 3 are far bigger than category 1. If you only followed this forum, you’d think it was the reverse. Since there’s no school in this area that fits into category 1, the most “famous” school in the DC area is still Dematha by a mile.

Sidwell easily fits into category 1. As a matter of fact, the poster who created the categories above used Sidwell as an example. Sidwell was put on the national/international map by the Clintons and the Obamas (arguably category 2, but way better than the Kardashians). Sidwell basketball (and two NBA players —Bey and Hart) also ticks the category 3 box. One could convincingly argue that Sidwell is the only school on the East coast that checks all 3 “fame” boxes.

It appears that you struggle with reading comprehension and/or you attended Dematha.

Comments like this are a great look for Sidwell.

Please get over yourself.

Instead of sitting around pining for the long gone obama days, maybe Sidwell parents can push the school to actually update and maintain its buildings. It's not yet dilapidated, but it's certainly faded. Sad that they've let it go. Same with Maret (actually much worse for Maret).

Lol—Sidwell’s current campus is fine, but allow me to introduce you to Sidwell’s new Upton Campus (for grades 9–12), which is scheduled to open fall 2026. The current US will be renovated and open to LS students in 2029. Click on the photos.

Link: https://shine.sidwell.edu/the-new-upper-school/

When this new and improved campus is unveiled, I wonder what Sidwell’s dedicated critics will say then. I know they’ll come up with something.

Sidwell needs it. The upper school has a lot of cinder block. NCS and STA facilities blow them away.

Their facilities blow Sidwell’s away? Surely you’re joking.
Have you seen the inside of STA’s gym?
It looks as if contractors haven’t touched it since it was built at the turn of the 20th century.
NCS’ gray building looks lovely from the outside. The inside is a completely different story. It looks like some parts have been renovated, and others completely ignored—all on the same floor. And why do they make visitors walk through that dank and stinky cafeteria on the ground floor? Finally, why do you have to walk outside to get to all three buildings? Who wants to walk a city block to get to PE classes in the rain and snow?
The campus (and the miserable grind atmosphere) was a deal breaker for our family.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Laguna Hills? Kardashians? Friday Night Lights? Lol! When is the last time you read a book? Only reality tv watchers know those schools or people.

Further more OP said DC schools.

I think we're getting to the heart of this pointless conversation.

98 percent of people don't think about famous private schools. If you're in the 2 percent who do, you can probably be broadly split into three categories:

1. those who are close to major population areas who think about the traditional definition of education eliteness. These are the people who think of and definitely have heard of St. Albans, Sidwell, Madeira, Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Choate, Hotchkiss, Dalton, Chicago Latin, Lawrenceville, et al

2. those who watch a lot of TV and care about things like where the Kardashians send their kids, and I guess then you know about Laguna High School or whatever it is

3. people who follow sports closely, who are likely to know all kinds of batshit no-name highschools that play national sports schedules, and a handful of famous jock schools (St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, IMG Academy etc) and on that list are several notable DC area schools... If you're the kind of person who knows anything about where NBA players come from, you definitely know DeMatha... And, I had to look this up, but apparently, the school that has sent the most kids to the NBA is Oak Hill Academy, in Dulles. Love it or hate it, Gonzaga has moved onto that list of private schools that are well known by people who pay attention to sports highschool hotspots.

Either way, tldr, almost nobody knows of any highschools. In the select world of nerds/freaks and weirdos who do, DMV does okay.

LOL Oak Hill Academy is south of Roanoke, 5.5 hours from DMV. Not the same as Oak Hill Christian. It grew in popularity after Kevin Durant attended for a year or two before coming back to MD. It's a similar school as IMG.

Agreed, but categories 2 and 3 are far bigger than category 1. If you only followed this forum, you’d think it was the reverse. Since there’s no school in this area that fits into category 1, the most “famous” school in the DC area is still Dematha by a mile.

Sidwell easily fits into category 1. As a matter of fact, the poster who created the categories above used Sidwell as an example. Sidwell was put on the national/international map by the Clintons and the Obamas (arguably category 2, but way better than the Kardashians). Sidwell basketball (and two NBA players —Bey and Hart) also ticks the category 3 box. One could convincingly argue that Sidwell is the only school on the East coast that checks all 3 “fame” boxes.

It appears that you struggle with reading comprehension and/or you attended Dematha.

Comments like this are a great look for Sidwell.

Please get over yourself.

Instead of sitting around pining for the long gone obama days, maybe Sidwell parents can push the school to actually update and maintain its buildings. It's not yet dilapidated, but it's certainly faded. Sad that they've let it go. Same with Maret (actually much worse for Maret).

Lol—Sidwell’s current campus is fine, but allow me to introduce you to Sidwell’s new Upton Campus (for grades 9–12), which is scheduled to open fall 2026. The current US will be renovated and open to LS students in 2029. Click on the photos.

Link: https://shine.sidwell.edu/the-new-upper-school/

When this new and improved campus is unveiled, I wonder what Sidwell’s dedicated critics will say then. I know they’ll come up with something.

LMAO. You've sent a link to a fundraising campaign that's been going on for about a decade. They've got glitzier photos now of something that still doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean it's real. And with the costs of material, construction labor, and interest going up like crazy, my bet is it's never happening.

Maybe they can raise a little money by letting the nursing home patients back into that white elephant of a building that's been draining Sidwell's funds since 2015.

Construction starts this summer (June).
I can already tell that Sidwell’s haters are really going to be upset in 2026. Oh well…

It’s not easy being the best at so many things.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Laguna Hills? Kardashians? Friday Night Lights? Lol! When is the last time you read a book? Only reality tv watchers know those schools or people.

Further more OP said DC schools.

I think we're getting to the heart of this pointless conversation.

98 percent of people don't think about famous private schools. If you're in the 2 percent who do, you can probably be broadly split into three categories:

1. those who are close to major population areas who think about the traditional definition of education eliteness. These are the people who think of and definitely have heard of St. Albans, Sidwell, Madeira, Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Choate, Hotchkiss, Dalton, Chicago Latin, Lawrenceville, et al

2. those who watch a lot of TV and care about things like where the Kardashians send their kids, and I guess then you know about Laguna High School or whatever it is

3. people who follow sports closely, who are likely to know all kinds of batshit no-name highschools that play national sports schedules, and a handful of famous jock schools (St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, IMG Academy etc) and on that list are several notable DC area schools... If you're the kind of person who knows anything about where NBA players come from, you definitely know DeMatha... And, I had to look this up, but apparently, the school that has sent the most kids to the NBA is Oak Hill Academy, in Dulles. Love it or hate it, Gonzaga has moved onto that list of private schools that are well known by people who pay attention to sports highschool hotspots.

Either way, tldr, almost nobody knows of any highschools. In the select world of nerds/freaks and weirdos who do, DMV does okay.

LOL Oak Hill Academy is south of Roanoke, 5.5 hours from DMV. Not the same as Oak Hill Christian. It grew in popularity after Kevin Durant attended for a year or two before coming back to MD. It's a similar school as IMG.

Agreed, but categories 2 and 3 are far bigger than category 1. If you only followed this forum, you’d think it was the reverse. Since there’s no school in this area that fits into category 1, the most “famous” school in the DC area is still Dematha by a mile.

Sidwell easily fits into category 1. As a matter of fact, the poster who created the categories above used Sidwell as an example. Sidwell was put on the national/international map by the Clintons and the Obamas (arguably category 2, but way better than the Kardashians). Sidwell basketball (and two NBA players —Bey and Hart) also ticks the category 3 box. One could convincingly argue that Sidwell is the only school on the East coast that checks all 3 “fame” boxes.

It appears that you struggle with reading comprehension and/or you attended Dematha.

I mean come on Sidwell people, Hart and Bey, are journeymen players. Neither at any point in their career has been a top 50 NBA player. No one other than Sidwell people would know they graduated from there. High school is only known for a few of the most high profile players. Until the recent Knicks run how many people even knew Josh Hart was still in the league? No one was watching him on those terrible Pelicans teams.

People might know where Kobe or Lebron went or where Cooper Flagg goes now, but no one knows random players like Josh Hart and even fewer for Mr. Bey. I’m a hardcore NBA fan and I’m not sure if he is still on the Hawks or not.

How many CURRENT NBA players do any other DC private schools have? I’ll wait.

While I’m waiting, how are the academics at any of those other high schools? Rigorous? Or is it more like SJC, where the athlete always comes before the scholar?

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Luka Garza went to Maret, won the Wooden Award twice (plus runner-up once), and is on the Timberwolves. His NBA career won't pan out, which most predicted even though he was dominant in college.

That said, why are you limiting to basketball only? There are a good number of DC area private school alums in the pro baseball, football, and soccer leagues.

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Anonymous wrote:Luka Garza went to Maret, won the Wooden Award twice (plus runner-up once), and is on the Timberwolves. His NBA career won't pan out, which most predicted even though he was dominant in college.

That said, why are you limiting to basketball only? There are a good number of DC area private school alums in the pro baseball, football, and soccer leagues.

The discussion is not limited to basketball. Which top* DC private schools have professional athletes CURRENTLY playing in the NBA, NFL, MLB? Professional soccer in the US is meh, so let’s skip that one.

* Please don’t list DC schools that are essentially sports factories. Those are schools that will graduate any athlete as long as he/she can still play the sport.

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^ Also include the WNBA because it’s on the rise.

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Anonymous wrote:Luka Garza went to Maret, won the Wooden Award twice (plus runner-up once), and is on the Timberwolves. His NBA career won't pan out, which most predicted even though he was dominant in college.

That said, why are you limiting to basketball only? There are a good number of DC area private school alums in the pro baseball, football, and soccer leagues.

The discussion is not limited to basketball. Which top* DC private schools have professional athletes CURRENTLY playing in the NBA, NFL, MLB? Professional soccer in the US is meh, so let’s skip that one.

* Please don’t list DC schools that are essentially sports factories. Those are schools that will graduate any athlete as long as he/she can still play the sport.

STA Matt Bowman current player on Yankees MLB.

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Do you consider Stone Ridge a sports factory? Because Katie Ledecky (a far more decorated athlete than Josh Hart) went to Stanford and graduated in under 4 years.

Bullis and Georgetown Prep have players currently in the NFL. There's a player on the Chicago Cubs who went to Georgetown Prep and Duke. The Arizona Diamondbacks have a pitcher who went to STA and Princeton.

Kristian Fletcher went to Landon and was a trialist with Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund before signing with DC United as a 17 year old.

You would have us think that Josh Hart and Saddiq Bey are special snowflakes?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you consider Stone Ridge a sports factory? Because Katie Ledecky (a far more decorated athlete than Josh Hart) went to Stanford and graduated in under 4 years.

Bullis and Georgetown Prep have players currently in the NFL. There's a player on the Chicago Cubs who went to Georgetown Prep and Duke. The Arizona Diamondbacks have a pitcher who went to STA and Princeton.

Kristian Fletcher went to Landon and was a trialist with Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund before signing with DC United as a 17 year old.

You would have us think that Josh Hart and Saddiq Bey are special snowflakes?

None of the schools listed above, except perhaps STA, is Sidwell’s academic peer. You don’t have to worry much about your grades if you’re an athlete at Bullis, Gonzaga, Prep, etc. Sidwell expelled Josh Hart due to poor grades. The Sidwell community protested for months before he was allowed to return, and he was tutored by teachers, parents and other community members until graduation.

US soccer (especially men’s soccer) is not qualified to be a part of this conversation. You can’t even name the Bullis and Prep players. Nameless, faceless players on teams with 60+ players each. While Katie Ledecky is certainly a “decorated” swimmer, I missed the name of her professional sports team…because that’s what this conversation is about.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you consider Stone Ridge a sports factory? Because Katie Ledecky (a far more decorated athlete than Josh Hart) went to Stanford and graduated in under 4 years.

Bullis and Georgetown Prep have players currently in the NFL. There's a player on the Chicago Cubs who went to Georgetown Prep and Duke. The Arizona Diamondbacks have a pitcher who went to STA and Princeton.

Kristian Fletcher went to Landon and was a trialist with Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund before signing with DC United as a 17 year old.

You would have us think that Josh Hart and Saddiq Bey are special snowflakes?

Landon? 🙄

Don’t get me started on the sorry athletes Landon produces. You can invoke Landon’s name when we start talking about murderous athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you consider Stone Ridge a sports factory? Because Katie Ledecky (a far more decorated athlete than Josh Hart) went to Stanford and graduated in under 4 years.

Bullis and Georgetown Prep have players currently in the NFL. There's a player on the Chicago Cubs who went to Georgetown Prep and Duke. The Arizona Diamondbacks have a pitcher who went to STA and Princeton.

Kristian Fletcher went to Landon and was a trialist with Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund before signing with DC United as a 17 year old.

You would have us think that Josh Hart and Saddiq Bey are special snowflakes?

None of the schools listed above, except perhaps STA, is Sidwell’s academic peer. You don’t have to worry much about your grades if you’re an athlete at Bullis, Gonzaga, Prep, etc. Sidwell expelled Josh Hart due to poor grades. The Sidwell community protested for months before he was allowed to return, and he was tutored by teachers, parents and other community members until graduation.

US soccer (especially men’s soccer) is not qualified to be a part of this conversation. You can’t even name the Bullis and Prep players. Nameless, faceless players on teams with 60+ players each. While Katie Ledecky is certainly a “decorated” swimmer, I missed the name of her professional sports team…because that’s what this conversation is about.

Keep moving the goalposts.

And citing the academic troubles that Josh Hart experienced doesn't help your case in any way. The athletes I listed were able to cut it at top universities, whether or not you consider their high schools to be Sidwell's "academic peer," so clearly they were well-prepared.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you consider Stone Ridge a sports factory? Because Katie Ledecky (a far more decorated athlete than Josh Hart) went to Stanford and graduated in under 4 years.

Bullis and Georgetown Prep have players currently in the NFL. There's a player on the Chicago Cubs who went to Georgetown Prep and Duke. The Arizona Diamondbacks have a pitcher who went to STA and Princeton.

Kristian Fletcher went to Landon and was a trialist with Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund before signing with DC United as a 17 year old.

You would have us think that Josh Hart and Saddiq Bey are special snowflakes?

None of the schools listed above, except perhaps STA, is Sidwell’s academic peer. You don’t have to worry much about your grades if you’re an athlete at Bullis, Gonzaga, Prep, etc. Sidwell expelled Josh Hart due to poor grades. The Sidwell community protested for months before he was allowed to return, and he was tutored by teachers, parents and other community members until graduation.

US soccer (especially men’s soccer) is not qualified to be a part of this conversation. You can’t even name the Bullis and Prep players. Nameless, faceless players on teams with 60+ players each. While Katie Ledecky is certainly a “decorated” swimmer, I missed the name of her professional sports team…because that’s what this conversation is about.

Keep moving the goalposts.

And citing the academic troubles that Josh Hart experienced doesn't help your case in any way. The athletes I listed were able to cut it at top universities, whether or not you consider their high schools to be Sidwell's "academic peer," so clearly they were well-prepared.

Josh Hart was able to successfully complete his degree at Villanova. No doubt due to his Sidwell education.

Those high schools are not Sidwell’s academic peers. That’s a fact, not my opinion.

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The fact that Sidwell let Josh Hart return means they’re no different from the schools where you claim the athletes don’t need to worry much about their grades.

And I don’t think you believe that Sidwell has any academic peers. So this discussion is basically moot.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you consider Stone Ridge a sports factory? Because Katie Ledecky (a far more decorated athlete than Josh Hart) went to Stanford and graduated in under 4 years.

Bullis and Georgetown Prep have players currently in the NFL. There's a player on the Chicago Cubs who went to Georgetown Prep and Duke. The Arizona Diamondbacks have a pitcher who went to STA and Princeton.

Kristian Fletcher went to Landon and was a trialist with Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund before signing with DC United as a 17 year old.

You would have us think that Josh Hart and Saddiq Bey are special snowflakes?

None of the schools listed above, except perhaps STA, is Sidwell’s academic peer. You don’t have to worry much about your grades if you’re an athlete at Bullis, Gonzaga, Prep, etc. Sidwell expelled Josh Hart due to poor grades. The Sidwell community protested for months before he was allowed to return, and he was tutored by teachers, parents and other community members until graduation.

US soccer (especially men’s soccer) is not qualified to be a part of this conversation. You can’t even name the Bullis and Prep players. Nameless, faceless players on teams with 60+ players each. While Katie Ledecky is certainly a “decorated” swimmer, I missed the name of her professional sports team…because that’s what this conversation is about.

Actually, this conversation was about most famous DC private. It's still not Sidwell.