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.

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.

And you’re really in denial.

I’ll let the internet give you the answers you seek: https://letmegooglethat.com/

Thanks for the advice to use Google. I typed in NUMBER 1 INDEPENDENT SCHOOL WASHINGTON DC. Google sent back . . . BASIS!!!!! I hit that link and Sidwell is indeed #2!

I thought, well, this must be a mistake! So I searched for rankings for the previous year, as maybe someone might remember the Obama children and all that glory! Alas, Google led me to the earlier ranking. When GDS was number one. Again, Sidwell was #2.

So, yes. Google told me the tale of Sidwell. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

You sound slow and geographically challenged.

1. No one, not even BIM, thinks that school ranks ahead of Sidwell on any academic or social measure, and
2. BIM is not located in DC.

Keep googling, Sidwell has ranked ahead of all other private schools for years on Niche. It’s so newsworthy when that doesn’t happen, that GDS wrote about it’s temporary status in its school newspaper. It’s so expected at Sidwell, that when Niche ranks them #1, no one mentions it.

Btw, where does STA rank on that list (both years)? Is it behind Sidwell, as I originally said?

I've been googling and still can't find it. Can you give me a hint on when Sidwell was ranked #1? Seems like a #2 kinda place, right?

You didn’t look very hard: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/s/district-of-columbia/

#1 private school in Washington, DC in 2024. Right where you, and everyone else, knows it belongs.

Poor dear. I guess this means a lot to you. Yes, if you cut out most of the DMV, you can get rid of #1, and Sidwell can climb out of its usual #2 spot. Couldn't do that with the prior year when GDS was #1, but can do it this year.

But maybe we can just always say sidwell is the #1 independent school south of Nebraska Avenue and north of Macomb street. It's famous there too! Mostly famous for screwing up traffic on Wisconsin Avenue, but famous nonetheless!

Poor dear. STA is never number one, and it didn’t even crack the top 3 in 2024. I guess we can say it’s the best all-boys school on Garfield Avenue, NW. That’s about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Total NBA players alltime

Dematha 22
Sidwell 2

Dematha is like Oak Hill or IMG Academies—it’s a sports factory. Academics are a distant second. Dematha should actually have way more than a total of 22 former NBA players. It’s hardly a school.

This might be the worst take of the entire thread.

Dematha comes in at #3 on this list (Oak Hill is #1). I stand by what I said. Dematha is a sports factory. It’s not a serious academic institution.

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/1680142-ranking-the-20-high-schools-that-produce-the-best-ncaa-basketball-talent.amp.html

They also have one of the largest number of NFL players in the country by high school. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t a “serious academic institution” if that is the case then no schools within the WCAC are serious because MOST of them have produced a several D1/Pro athletes.

These schools often stand in the gap between some low performing publics and 50K independent schools that most families in this area can’t afford to pay for.

Just because the school is serving athletes or a less affluent population does not mean that families aren’t sending kids there to receive a great education.

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Anonymous wrote:DeMatha is probably the most well known school because of the lengthy basketball history. Then Gonzaga especially with Caleb Williams recently in the news a lot. Sidwell probably third because of the Clintons and the Obamas. I doubt many people could name any other school. Even St. Albans has a low profile outside a select set of people. No one has heard of GDS or Maret.

Why would people in other states keep up with high school basketball?

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Anonymous wrote:DeMatha is probably the most well known school because of the lengthy basketball history. Then Gonzaga especially with Caleb Williams recently in the news a lot. Sidwell probably third because of the Clintons and the Obamas. I doubt many people could name any other school. Even St. Albans has a low profile outside a select set of people. No one has heard of GDS or Maret.

Why would people in other states keep up with high school basketball?

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Anonymous wrote:DeMatha is probably the most well known school because of the lengthy basketball history. Then Gonzaga especially with Caleb Williams recently in the news a lot. Sidwell probably third because of the Clintons and the Obamas. I doubt many people could name any other school. Even St. Albans has a low profile outside a select set of people. No one has heard of GDS or Maret.

Why would people in other states keep up with high school basketball?

You are really out of touch in the ways high school sports are trending. Major media companies like ESPN now report on high school sports and often air games nationally, there are websites dedicated to covering the top high school athletes and teams particularly in the major sports and increasingly high school teams are playing national schedules.

The DC area has several of the top programs in both football and basketball so it’s only natural that people would be following things here.

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Anonymous wrote: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).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
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Anonymous wrote: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).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
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No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

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Anonymous wrote: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).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
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No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

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Anonymous wrote: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).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
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No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

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Anonymous wrote: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).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

The question wasn’t what high school is “good” it’s what high school is most famous.

DeMatha is searched more on Google than Sidwell.

St. Frances and Good Counsel aired sports competitions this year where over 500K people watched the game nationally…do you think that large of a number of people know about other DMV privates?

Just because you don’t like the answer doesn’t mean it’s not true.

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Most famous are Episcopal and Madeira. Episcopal is pretty well know through out the south and Madeira had those scandals.

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Anonymous wrote: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).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
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No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

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On famous? It's Dematha for sure.

I'm betting that President Obama, huge basketball fan that he is, would agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Giving him a second chance that no other student would get isn't taking academic performance very seriously.

I see that you don’t understand, or you simply don’t have the range for this conversation. Either way, I’m done discussing this point with you.

Cry more.

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Anonymous wrote:On famous? It's Dematha for sure.

I'm betting that President Obama, huge basketball fan that he is, would agree.

Agreed. The Sidwell boosters seem to be extremely closed to any disconfirming data, logic or common sense. This entire thread is exhausting because they just keep saying Sidwell is the most famous but they have nothing objective to back that up with. It’s all about their elitist feelings about which school they think is “better.” And a lot of the comments tearing down Dematha sound racist.