Please tell me everything about McDonogh in Baltimore County
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Anonymous
Maybe but Baltimore schools really aren't' comparable to DC's. Compared to DC schools it would not be a 1st tier school let alone big 3... |
Anonymous
I’d say Park over Mcdonogh, based on academic rigor. Mcdonogh has more of a spread of kids in academic ability than the others. |
Anonymous
Bullis |
Anonymous
If your kid is not Jewish you will always be an outsider at Park. |
Anonymous
Park is alright. The progressive curriculum has limited appeal and the curriculum is not as rigorous as you seem to think. Not a “Big 3” from the recent thread. |
Anonymous
Of course they exist in different cities, it was an attempt for DC people to understand Baltimore. |
Anonymous
Please elaborate with details. |
Anonymous
Gilman has more current systemic child rape issues, so the PP feels it is a better school. |
Anonymous
Gilman’s endowment is significantly larger than the endowment of any other private school in Baltimore, nearly double. Mcdonogh had one very large bequest that funded some of its newer buildings, but it has also borrowed to build. |
Anonymous
Mcdonogh has more than its share of thar as well |
Anonymous
Several people mentioned Park in that thread. My kids don’t even go there but I would put it ahead of Mcdonogh for academics. Mcdonogh has some smart kids there to learn, and even more athletic kids there for sports. |
Anonymous
That was the stereotype 25 years ago. Not so these days. There are Jewish families who will not look at Park because it's too progressive. Baltimore doesn't have a Big three. During the private school boom years of the 1990s-2008, the schools recognized as having the most rigorous academics backed up by their college placements were Gilman, Bryn Mawr, McDonogh, Park, and Friends. SAT scores were comparable across all these five schools. Since then Friends has slipped down to solidly second tier and Park is a bit of a hit or miss. But I don't consider any of these schools as uniquely capable, they just had the more academically performing students. A PP is right in that McDonogh was popular among aspirational black professional families in the 1990s and 2000s. McDonogh's location in Owings Mills was more convenient for the black professional classes, who tended to live around there. And it was always bigger than the other schools, which translated into more black kids, which in turn made it more attractive to black families. McDonough is popular these days, more so than it was 25 years ago. It's probably due to a combination of factors. It's closer to Howard County, which is where much of the new money is. It's coed, but not left-progressive like Park and doesn't have the "what the heck is Quakerism" issue that Friends suffers from, plus Friends is also further left on the ideological spectrum these days. Conservative/centrist families do flock to McDonough along with St. Pauls. It ticks most of the boxes. I can easily see why the school draws a lot of interest, more than any of the other schools do. Downsides are, as PP have pointed out, students are spread over a huge region. There's a divide between McDonough and the rest of the privates as families tend to send all their kids to McDonogh instead of splitting them up at multiple privates. Good school. But it's also not the only good school in the area. |
Anonymous
This is a troll. Not sure if there is interracial dating, but racism against Blacks has been reported there for years. And the school only has around 15% Blacks, which is comparable to most of the DCUM privates, but nowhere near the percentage of Blacks in Baltimore City Schools. |
Anonymous
What is Gilman’s endowment good for? Their campus and facilities seem fine but do not stand out. Curious where the money goes. How do students benefit? |
Anonymous
For one thing, it helps Gilman maintain a lower tuition than the other private schools while also leading the local market in teacher compensation. I suspect Gilman also gives the most financial aid, about $5 million a year, but am too lazy to investigatethis. |