most diverse private elementary schools

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:oddly enough Sidwell is more diverse than GDS.

Sidwell is very diverse, but people on this board make it out to be the white supremacy headquarters of DC

Sidwell is the most diverse and even stated they want to keep doing better.

Damning with faint praise.

[Anonymous]

If you’re looking for racial diversity you can start by looking at the faculty. Don’t trust pics of students as most schools keep old photos online of the same few kids of color.

For religious diversity you will likely need to ask.

You can estimate the socioeconomic diversity based on how much FA they award each year and to how many students.

You will find the most diversity at schools founded on diversity versus the schools that started off as havens for white children and then added on a diversity goal.

[Anonymous]

Don’t know how accurate, but niche usual has diversity and percentages of each group online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:oddly enough Sidwell is more diverse than GDS.

Sidwell is very diverse, but people on this board make it out to be the white supremacy headquarters of DC

I thought the headquarters were at the cathedral schools.

Your assumption is false. NCS is 46% diverse. This year my daughter’s math, science, foreign language and history teachers are people of color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re looking for racial diversity you can start by looking at the faculty. Don’t trust pics of students as most schools keep old photos online of the same few kids of color.

For religious diversity you will likely need to ask.

You can estimate the socioeconomic diversity based on how much FA they award each year and to how many students.

You will find the most diversity at schools founded on diversity versus the schools that started off as havens for white children and then added on a diversity goal.

The higher the tuition, the less diverse. Regardless of history.

[Anonymous]

You will find that the majority of private schools in the DMV are racially diverse. If you email or talk to people in admissions at these schools they can give you the numerical breakdown (AA - 20 percent, Hispanic/Latinx - 6 percent, Asian 12 percent, etc. for school A). I agree that is it a good sign when you see POC among the faculty and staff.

However, most of these schools are populated by very wealthy people of every stripe. There MAY be a handful of economically disadvantaged students who get close to a full ride, but most of the financial aid goes to middle- or upper middle- class families who can pay a good portion of the tuition. I'd imagine the schools would argue they can't support many students needing full tuition. So you aren't likely to find, say, a Hispanic student whose parents are both blue-collar workers who work multiple jobs and speak little English at home. Families like that don't have the money for the tuition or the time, resources or assistance to go through the long application process with essays, interviews, possible online tests and visits to these schools. It's a shame. I think the schools should designate at least one or two slots per grade to a genuinely needy child whose life could be changed by attending these schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have already weeded our one kind of diversity: economic. So does it really matter? Are rich black families that different than rich white families?

Yes. Absolutely. Is this a serious question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:oddly enough Sidwell is more diverse than GDS.

Sidwell is very diverse, but people on this board make it out to be the white supremacy headquarters of DC

I thought the headquarters were at the cathedral schools.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will find that the majority of private schools in the DMV are racially diverse. If you email or talk to people in admissions at these schools they can give you the numerical breakdown (AA - 20 percent, Hispanic/Latinx - 6 percent, Asian 12 percent, etc. for school A). I agree that is it a good sign when you see POC among the faculty and staff.

However, most of these schools are populated by very wealthy people of every stripe. There MAY be a handful of economically disadvantaged students who get close to a full ride, but most of the financial aid goes to middle- or upper middle- class families who can pay a good portion of the tuition. I'd imagine the schools would argue they can't support many students needing full tuition. So you aren't likely to find, say, a Hispanic student whose parents are both blue-collar workers who work multiple jobs and speak little English at home. Families like that don't have the money for the tuition or the time, resources or assistance to go through the long application process with essays, interviews, possible online tests and visits to these schools. It's a shame. I think the schools should designate at least one or two slots per grade to a genuinely needy child whose life could be changed by attending these schools.

That wouldn’t work because people send their kids to $$$ private schools to avoid low-income/ESL families with few resources

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, let’s check with OP.

OP, what kind of diversity are you looking for? You don’t want your child to be the only what?

Think covered in the penultimate sentence in OP's post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So everyone just defaults that diversity to mean "are there children of color"? Talk about narrow minded.

Are you looking for diversity in race, religion, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic, national origin, sexual orientation, disabled/nondisabled?

OP please be specific.

OP is pretty specific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So everyone just defaults that diversity to mean "are there children of color"? Talk about narrow minded.

Are you looking for diversity in race, religion, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic, national origin, sexual orientation, disabled/nondisabled?

OP please be specific.

OP is pretty specific.

Which race?

[Anonymous]

My daughter is at Green Acres and her year is diverse.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell, GDS.

[Anonymous]

Three miles out of DC, but Grace Episcopal Day School walks the talk on diversity better than anywhere else, IMHO.