Most famous DC Private

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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.

I know that’s your fervent dream. However, logic, reason and commonsense say otherwise.

To make matters worse (for you), it’s also the oldest and most prestigious independent school in DC.

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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.

Ha ha ha. Just admit your kids couldn’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The fact that Sidwell expelled Josh Hart in the first place, for academic reasons, is precisely why Sidwell is very different from schools like Landon, Bullis, SJC, etc. Josh would have sailed through those schools with mostly Bs. He was only allowed to return to Sidwell because parents and students advocated on his behalf. His return to Sidwell was conditioned on the fact that he had to improve his academic performance—and he did.

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There can’t possibly be anything new to say after 11 pages of this inanity.

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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.

I know that’s your fervent dream. However, logic, reason and commonsense say otherwise.

To make matters worse (for you), it’s also the oldest and most prestigious independent school in DC.

It's no STA.

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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.

Ha ha ha. Just admit your kids couldn’t get in.

My oldest daughter was admitted to every school she applied to, including NCS and Sidwell. Do you honestly believe that NCS is a harder admit than Sidwell? 😂

She now wonders why she even bothered to apply to NCS (I tried to warn her about the mean girl/soul-sucking grind reputation). She definitely dodged a bullet!

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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.

I know that’s your fervent dream. However, logic, reason and commonsense say otherwise.

To make matters worse (for you), it’s also the oldest and most prestigious independent school in DC.

It's no STA.

Thank God for that! He isn’t interested in joining a cult.

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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.

I know that’s your fervent dream. However, logic, reason and commonsense say otherwise.

To make matters worse (for you), it’s also the oldest and most prestigious independent school in DC.

It's no STA.

You’re right, it’s much better.

Sidwell Friends School (founded in 1883), consistently ranked the #1 private school in DC.

St. Albans School (founded in 1909), consistently ranked somewhere behind Sidwell.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The fact that Sidwell expelled Josh Hart in the first place, for academic reasons, is precisely why Sidwell is very different from schools like Landon, Bullis, SJC, etc. Josh would have sailed through those schools with mostly Bs. He was only allowed to return to Sidwell because parents and students advocated on his behalf. His return to Sidwell was conditioned on the fact that he had to improve his academic performance—and he did.

The fact that Sidwell gave him any route back means that his prior academic performance became completely irrelevant. For all practical purposes, they wiped the slate clean.

And you like to brag so much about Sidwell having no academic peer, well, Villanova doesn't light a candle to the schools where some of the other athletes upthread graduated.

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Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

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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.

If a shovel actually hits dirt there this summer, then come back and tell us all about it. Will it be worth having kicked the nursing home patients to the curb a decade ago?

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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.

I know that’s your fervent dream. However, logic, reason and commonsense say otherwise.

To make matters worse (for you), it’s also the oldest and most prestigious independent school in DC.

It's no STA.

You’re right, it’s much better.

Sidwell Friends School (founded in 1883), consistently ranked the #1 private school in DC.

St. Albans School (founded in 1909), consistently ranked somewhere behind Sidwell.

Ranked number one where?

You're really childish.

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Landon and Georgetown Prep for their scandals. Madeira back in the 80s for its scandal.

No one cares where lower Gore went. And only in DC does anyone remember where Chelsea or Sasha went, especially when the end result has been pretty average people. No stars there.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The fact that Sidwell expelled Josh Hart in the first place, for academic reasons, is precisely why Sidwell is very different from schools like Landon, Bullis, SJC, etc. Josh would have sailed through those schools with mostly Bs. He was only allowed to return to Sidwell because parents and students advocated on his behalf. His return to Sidwell was conditioned on the fact that he had to improve his academic performance—and he did.

The fact that Sidwell gave him any route back means that his prior academic performance became completely irrelevant. For all practical purposes, they wiped the slate clean.

And you like to brag so much about Sidwell having no academic peer, well, Villanova doesn't light a candle to the schools where some of the other athletes upthread graduated.

No, that’s not what that means. His Sidwell transcript (pre-expulsion) remained intact. You’re just making things up, I see.

As for Villanova, you act as if Sidwell athletic recruits don’t attend Ivies. They do…every single year. The difference is that the Sidwell to Villanova recruit went on to become a first-round draft pick in the NBA (7 years and counting). Now, Josh Hart is in the NBA playoffs, and they have a good chance of winning. How are the the athletic recruits from other DC privates CURRENTLY doing in the various professional team leagues? 🤔

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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.

If a shovel actually hits dirt there this summer, then come back and tell us all about it. Will it be worth having kicked the nursing home patients to the curb a decade ago?