What are the best independent schools ranked 1 - 8 ?

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Anonymous wrote:Based on the latest data, here is the 2024 ranking of the top ten private schools in the DMV:

1-BIM
2-Sidwell
3-GDS
4-Madeira
5-NCS
6-Holton
7-Episcopal
8-STA
9-Landon
10-Potomac

Big 3 are now BIM, Sidwell, and GDS.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

If you give enough monkeys a keyboard

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What a list

[Anonymous]

You win, Basis. It’s the best school, everyone,
ahahaha

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Anonymous wrote:SFS is #1. Not. Even. Close.

It is in fact shocking that its status has never been usurped.

Sidwell’s status will be further solidified once the renovated US opens in fall 2026.
Sidwell’s haters are going to lose their minds!

Watch the comments after I post the link to the video:
https://shine.sidwell.edu/reimagined-learning/

Yeah. It's been two or three years away for more than a decade. Good luck!!!

Your post is proof that people will post any ill-informed lie on DCUM.

Sidwell purchased the Upton Street campus in December 2016. We just entered 2024, so Sidwell has owned the Upton property for 7 years and 2 months! At least 2 of those 7 years were during COVID.

So, you expected Sidwell to raise $152M; navigate all of DC’s bureaucratic red tape; deal with local neighborhoods/ANCs that will inevitably oppose something about the construction; and complete a multimillion multi-building construction project within 7 years (including a 2 year global pandemic)? That’s your criticism? Mmmkay.

Sidwell signed the deal to but the nursing home in September 2015. It took 15 months to kick out the old people before transferring the deed.

So under the current promise that will be 11 years for phase one,.

I'm betting on further delays. The traffic on Wisconsin has gotten far worse over the past decade with so much more development. No way the neighbors won't try to stop an expansion.

But bigger problem is commercial construction costs in DC are skyrocketing. They could easily have to add 20% or more for cost increases and overruns. The school is probably more like 40 or 50 million short than 10. And every year of additional delay will add another 10 or 15 million of construction
costs to the price tag (In addition to the costs caused by owning a mostly vacant former nursing home for almost a decade). Kind of a mess, right?

You are really streaaaaaaaaching to make some nonsensical point.

You/Sidwell/God can “sign” whatever deal you want. The property isn’t yours to do anything with until you actually purchase it. In Sidwell’s case, that was the end of December 2016. It’s been 7 years, so please move on and mind business that actually affects you. You have no relationship with Sidwell…other than that of an unsuccessful applicant.

So, if Sidwell actually can occupy the renovated nursing home as its US by fall 2026, that will be nearly 10 years after closing on the property and 11 years after signing an agreement. And of course, that still isn't a consolidated campus because the US then needs to be renovated, especially given how rundown it is now.

10 or 11 years is insanely long, don't you agree?

Total incompetence and waste of donor money-- and tuition money.

How much debt does the school have and how much tuition is going to debt repayment? Is the debt still bigger than the endowment?

Why do you care?!? Your children don’t attend Sidwell. You didn’t donate a single dollar to this $152M campaign. It’s the donors’ money to “waste,” not yours. You, your children, and your grandchildren haven’t had/don’t have/won’t have anything to do with Sidwell.

Sidwell’s large, unified and beautifully renovated campus will open in a couple of years, and YOU.WILL.DEAL! You will still be angry and bitter, but you will deal.

First I see the debt is in fact larger than the endowment. Second, it is apparent members of the community have mental health challenges. Third, other schools would need to file tax reports showing the debt but Sidwell hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.

Sidwell should not be considered a top 3 school.

How do you know that Sidwell's debt is greater than its endowment???

They don’t know because it isn’t true. Reread what this person wrote: “First I see the debt is in fact larger than the endowment… Third, other schools would need to file tax reports showing the debt but Sidwell hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.”

Which is it? You can see Sidwell’s “debt is in fact larger than the endowment,” yet Sidwell hides its debt and doesn’t need to publicly file taxes because it “hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.”
You can’t argue both sides of this lie.

Sidwell hides the debt from public view in tax filings. Occasionally it provides members of the Sidwell community updates when demanded. From one such email.

Sidwell Friends’s endowment should be understood in light of the financial complexities of an independent day school. On April 24, 2020, the value of the School’s endowment ($53.4M) had dropped by nearly 10%. Current debt ($64.4M) exceeds the value of the endowment.

If this nearly 4 year old email is true, why is it a problem if Sidwell is paying its debt on time?

Allow me to introduce you to a concept called leverage. Leverage in real estate is using debt to increase the potential return on investment. In recent years, Sidwell had the opportunity to purchase the Upton Street property, as well as the adjacent office building (3939 Wisconsin Avenue). As a result, Sidwell now owns the entire city block, minus the Post Office next door. Once the campus is renovated and unified, Sidwell will sell the Bethesda campus. The proceeds from the LS sale, as well as funds from the $152M campaign, will double Sidwell’s endowment and allow it to pay down its debt. Then, all of you concern trolls can “worry” about something else.

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Anonymous wrote:SFS is #1. Not. Even. Close.

It is in fact shocking that its status has never been usurped.

Sidwell’s status will be further solidified once the renovated US opens in fall 2026.
Sidwell’s haters are going to lose their minds!

Watch the comments after I post the link to the video:
https://shine.sidwell.edu/reimagined-learning/

Yeah. It's been two or three years away for more than a decade. Good luck!!!

Your post is proof that people will post any ill-informed lie on DCUM.

Sidwell purchased the Upton Street campus in December 2016. We just entered 2024, so Sidwell has owned the Upton property for 7 years and 2 months! At least 2 of those 7 years were during COVID.

So, you expected Sidwell to raise $152M; navigate all of DC’s bureaucratic red tape; deal with local neighborhoods/ANCs that will inevitably oppose something about the construction; and complete a multimillion multi-building construction project within 7 years (including a 2 year global pandemic)? That’s your criticism? Mmmkay.

Sidwell signed the deal to but the nursing home in September 2015. It took 15 months to kick out the old people before transferring the deed.

So under the current promise that will be 11 years for phase one,.

I'm betting on further delays. The traffic on Wisconsin has gotten far worse over the past decade with so much more development. No way the neighbors won't try to stop an expansion.

But bigger problem is commercial construction costs in DC are skyrocketing. They could easily have to add 20% or more for cost increases and overruns. The school is probably more like 40 or 50 million short than 10. And every year of additional delay will add another 10 or 15 million of construction
costs to the price tag (In addition to the costs caused by owning a mostly vacant former nursing home for almost a decade). Kind of a mess, right?

You are really streaaaaaaaaching to make some nonsensical point.

You/Sidwell/God can “sign” whatever deal you want. The property isn’t yours to do anything with until you actually purchase it. In Sidwell’s case, that was the end of December 2016. It’s been 7 years, so please move on and mind business that actually affects you. You have no relationship with Sidwell…other than that of an unsuccessful applicant.

So, if Sidwell actually can occupy the renovated nursing home as its US by fall 2026, that will be nearly 10 years after closing on the property and 11 years after signing an agreement. And of course, that still isn't a consolidated campus because the US then needs to be renovated, especially given how rundown it is now.

10 or 11 years is insanely long, don't you agree?

Total incompetence and waste of donor money-- and tuition money.

How much debt does the school have and how much tuition is going to debt repayment? Is the debt still bigger than the endowment?

Why do you care?!? Your children don’t attend Sidwell. You didn’t donate a single dollar to this $152M campaign. It’s the donors’ money to “waste,” not yours. You, your children, and your grandchildren haven’t had/don’t have/won’t have anything to do with Sidwell.

Sidwell’s large, unified and beautifully renovated campus will open in a couple of years, and YOU.WILL.DEAL! You will still be angry and bitter, but you will deal.

First I see the debt is in fact larger than the endowment. Second, it is apparent members of the community have mental health challenges. Third, other schools would need to file tax reports showing the debt but Sidwell hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.

Sidwell should not be considered a top 3 school.

How do you know that Sidwell's debt is greater than its endowment???

They don’t know because it isn’t true. Reread what this person wrote: “First I see the debt is in fact larger than the endowment… Third, other schools would need to file tax reports showing the debt but Sidwell hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.”

Which is it? You can see Sidwell’s “debt is in fact larger than the endowment,” yet Sidwell hides its debt and doesn’t need to publicly file taxes because it “hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.”
You can’t argue both sides of this lie.

Sidwell hides the debt from public view in tax filings. Occasionally it provides members of the Sidwell community updates when demanded. From one such email.

Sidwell Friends’s endowment should be understood in light of the financial complexities of an independent day school. On April 24, 2020, the value of the School’s endowment ($53.4M) had dropped by nearly 10%. Current debt ($64.4M) exceeds the value of the endowment.

If this nearly 4 year old email is true, why is it a problem if Sidwell is paying its debt on time?

Allow me to introduce you to a concept called leverage. Leverage in real estate is using debt to increase the potential return on investment. In recent years, Sidwell had the opportunity to purchase the Upton Street property, as well as the adjacent office building (3939 Wisconsin Avenue). As a result, Sidwell now owns the entire city block, minus the Post Office next door. Once the campus is renovated and unified, Sidwell will sell the Bethesda campus. The proceeds from the LS sale, as well as funds from the $152M campaign, will double Sidwell’s endowment and allow it to pay down its debt. Then, all of you concern trolls can “worry” about something else.

Let me introduce you to a concept called over-extending

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Anonymous wrote:SFS is #1. Not. Even. Close.

It is in fact shocking that its status has never been usurped.

Sidwell’s status will be further solidified once the renovated US opens in fall 2026.
Sidwell’s haters are going to lose their minds!

Watch the comments after I post the link to the video:
https://shine.sidwell.edu/reimagined-learning/

Yeah. It's been two or three years away for more than a decade. Good luck!!!

Your post is proof that people will post any ill-informed lie on DCUM.

Sidwell purchased the Upton Street campus in December 2016. We just entered 2024, so Sidwell has owned the Upton property for 7 years and 2 months! At least 2 of those 7 years were during COVID.

So, you expected Sidwell to raise $152M; navigate all of DC’s bureaucratic red tape; deal with local neighborhoods/ANCs that will inevitably oppose something about the construction; and complete a multimillion multi-building construction project within 7 years (including a 2 year global pandemic)? That’s your criticism? Mmmkay.

Sidwell signed the deal to but the nursing home in September 2015. It took 15 months to kick out the old people before transferring the deed.

So under the current promise that will be 11 years for phase one,.

I'm betting on further delays. The traffic on Wisconsin has gotten far worse over the past decade with so much more development. No way the neighbors won't try to stop an expansion.

But bigger problem is commercial construction costs in DC are skyrocketing. They could easily have to add 20% or more for cost increases and overruns. The school is probably more like 40 or 50 million short than 10. And every year of additional delay will add another 10 or 15 million of construction
costs to the price tag (In addition to the costs caused by owning a mostly vacant former nursing home for almost a decade). Kind of a mess, right?

You are really streaaaaaaaaching to make some nonsensical point.

You/Sidwell/God can “sign” whatever deal you want. The property isn’t yours to do anything with until you actually purchase it. In Sidwell’s case, that was the end of December 2016. It’s been 7 years, so please move on and mind business that actually affects you. You have no relationship with Sidwell…other than that of an unsuccessful applicant.

So, if Sidwell actually can occupy the renovated nursing home as its US by fall 2026, that will be nearly 10 years after closing on the property and 11 years after signing an agreement. And of course, that still isn't a consolidated campus because the US then needs to be renovated, especially given how rundown it is now.

10 or 11 years is insanely long, don't you agree?

Total incompetence and waste of donor money-- and tuition money.

How much debt does the school have and how much tuition is going to debt repayment? Is the debt still bigger than the endowment?

Why do you care?!? Your children don’t attend Sidwell. You didn’t donate a single dollar to this $152M campaign. It’s the donors’ money to “waste,” not yours. You, your children, and your grandchildren haven’t had/don’t have/won’t have anything to do with Sidwell.

Sidwell’s large, unified and beautifully renovated campus will open in a couple of years, and YOU.WILL.DEAL! You will still be angry and bitter, but you will deal.

First I see the debt is in fact larger than the endowment. Second, it is apparent members of the community have mental health challenges. Third, other schools would need to file tax reports showing the debt but Sidwell hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.

Sidwell should not be considered a top 3 school.

How do you know that Sidwell's debt is greater than its endowment???

They don’t know because it isn’t true. Reread what this person wrote: “First I see the debt is in fact larger than the endowment… Third, other schools would need to file tax reports showing the debt but Sidwell hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.”

Which is it? You can see Sidwell’s “debt is in fact larger than the endowment,” yet Sidwell hides its debt and doesn’t need to publicly file taxes because it “hides behind the excuse of being a religious institution.”
You can’t argue both sides of this lie.

Sidwell hides the debt from public view in tax filings. Occasionally it provides members of the Sidwell community updates when demanded. From one such email.

Sidwell Friends’s endowment should be understood in light of the financial complexities of an independent day school. On April 24, 2020, the value of the School’s endowment ($53.4M) had dropped by nearly 10%. Current debt ($64.4M) exceeds the value of the endowment.

If this nearly 4 year old email is true, why is it a problem if Sidwell is paying its debt on time?

Allow me to introduce you to a concept called leverage. Leverage in real estate is using debt to increase the potential return on investment. In recent years, Sidwell had the opportunity to purchase the Upton Street property, as well as the adjacent office building (3939 Wisconsin Avenue). As a result, Sidwell now owns the entire city block, minus the Post Office next door. Once the campus is renovated and unified, Sidwell will sell the Bethesda campus. The proceeds from the LS sale, as well as funds from the $152M campaign, will double Sidwell’s endowment and allow it to pay down its debt. Then, all of you concern trolls can “worry” about something else.

Let me introduce you to a concept called over-extending

**Shrug**

You have to spend money to make money. It’s the American way.

[Anonymous]

The “American way” is also to avoid accountability by declaring bankruptcy. What’s your point?

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Anonymous wrote:1. Sidwell
2. Sidwell
3. Sidwell

Why do Sidwell parents all walk around with a chip on their shoulder? They're like a bunch of Eeyores.

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Anonymous wrote:1. Sidwell
2. Sidwell
3. Sidwell

No. Sidwell is barely top 3 anymore. It is a tie between GDS, Maret, and Sidwell for 3rd. STA and NCS are top 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The “American way” is also to avoid accountability by declaring bankruptcy. What’s your point?

Bankruptcy—that’s how you define the American way? Sad. We clearly have different perspectives…and experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:1. Sidwell
2. Sidwell
3. Sidwell

Why do Sidwell parents all walk around with a chip on their shoulder? They're like a bunch of Eeyores.

My experience has been that other parents (whose children don’t attend Sidwell) either put Sidwell on a pedestal, or they try to prove that their children’s school is just as good as Sidwell. It’s interesting to watch.

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Anonymous wrote:The “American way” is also to avoid accountability by declaring bankruptcy. What’s your point?

Bankruptcy—that’s how you define the American way? Sad. We clearly have different perspectives…and experiences.

Do you deny that the bankruptcy system exists and is often used to avoid accountability when bad "spend money to make money" decisions sink an organization financially?

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Anonymous wrote:The “American way” is also to avoid accountability by declaring bankruptcy. What’s your point?

Bankruptcy—that’s how you define the American way? Sad. We clearly have different perspectives…and experiences.

Do you deny that the bankruptcy system exists and is often used to avoid accountability when bad "spend money to make money" decisions sink an organization financially?

Do you have ADHD? Please try to stay on topic. Sidwell has never filed for bankruptcy, nor is it in danger of doing so.

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Anonymous wrote:The “American way” is also to avoid accountability by declaring bankruptcy. What’s your point?

Bankruptcy—that’s how you define the American way? Sad. We clearly have different perspectives…and experiences.

Do you deny that the bankruptcy system exists and is often used to avoid accountability when bad "spend money to make money" decisions sink an organization financially?

Do you have ADHD? Please try to stay on topic. Sidwell has never filed for bankruptcy, nor is it in danger of doing so.

Using ADHD as an insult is nice. You must be a lovely person.
-DP

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The “American way” is also to avoid accountability by declaring bankruptcy. What’s your point?

Bankruptcy—that’s how you define the American way? Sad. We clearly have different perspectives…and experiences.

Do you deny that the bankruptcy system exists and is often used to avoid accountability when bad "spend money to make money" decisions sink an organization financially?

Do you have ADHD? Please try to stay on topic. Sidwell has never filed for bankruptcy, nor is it in danger of doing so.

Using ADHD as an insult is nice. You must be a lovely person.
-DP

There are so many fragile people on DCUM. ADHD and fragility is a terrible combination. Thoughts and prayers.

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Anonymous wrote:The “American way” is also to avoid accountability by declaring bankruptcy. What’s your point?

Bankruptcy—that’s how you define the American way? Sad. We clearly have different perspectives…and experiences.

Do you deny that the bankruptcy system exists and is often used to avoid accountability when bad "spend money to make money" decisions sink an organization financially?

Do you have ADHD? Please try to stay on topic. Sidwell has never filed for bankruptcy, nor is it in danger of doing so.

I wasn't the one who claimed that the American way required spending money to make money.