Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria Private School Option

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Anonymous wrote:Basilica of St. Mary located in old town.

As a non-Catholic, there is no way OP's child is getting in their. Even parishioners struggle to not get their kids wait listed there.

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is broad, but we are hoping to move in the next year and would like more space and a stellar, yet affordable private school.

We are protestant, but both have attended Catholic schools and do not have any issues with Catholic education. We are looking for a well rounded education that focuses on core subjects. We do like having religion incorporated if possible.

My current search has lead me to:
Blessed Sacrament-Alexandria
Lutheran Emanuel-Alexandria
St. Rita-Alexandria
Congressional-Falls Church
Potomac Classical Conservatory-Alexandria
St. Agnes-Arlington

Would also love to know your experience of being admitted as a non-catholic into a catholic school.
Where else should I be looking?

Appreciate any helpful tips or advice!

A non-Catholic can get into the three listed parochial schools on the list. Just depends on what openings the school wants to fill. Generally, you kids will be behind parishioner's kids and non-parishioner catholics kids to determine if you have a spot. St. Agnes is probably the best of the three schools given its location in North Arlington (though the other 2 schools are good too). St. Agnes is also twice the size of BS and StR with 2 classes per grade while the other two only have 1 class per grade. That greats a larger community for various activities. As an example, for CYO basketball, St. Agnes will generally put out 2 teams per grade with each team being about 8-10 kids on the team. BS and StR will generally field only one team of 12-14 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is broad, but we are hoping to move in the next year and would like more space and a stellar, yet affordable private school.

We are protestant, but both have attended Catholic schools and do not have any issues with Catholic education. We are looking for a well rounded education that focuses on core subjects. We do like having religion incorporated if possible.

My current search has lead me to:
Blessed Sacrament-Alexandria
Lutheran Emanuel-Alexandria
St. Rita-Alexandria
Congressional-Falls Church
Potomac Classical Conservatory-Alexandria
St. Agnes-Arlington

Would also love to know your experience of being admitted as a non-catholic into a catholic school.
Where else should I be looking?

Appreciate any helpful tips or advice!

A non-Catholic can get into the three listed parochial schools on the list. Just depends on what openings the school wants to fill. Generally, you kids will be behind parishioner's kids and non-parishioner catholics kids to determine if you have a spot. St. Agnes is probably the best of the three schools given its location in North Arlington (though the other 2 schools are good too). St. Agnes is also twice the size of BS and StR with 2 classes per grade while the other two only have 1 class per grade. That greats a larger community for various activities. As an example, for CYO basketball, St. Agnes will generally put out 2 teams per grade with each team being about 8-10 kids on the team. BS and StR will generally field only one team of 12-14 kids.

Blessed Sacrament will be very difficult to get into as a non-Catholic.

[Anonymous]

These are much further out, but OP if you want Protestant, deeply religious schools that have better academic reputations (note I'm not trying to compare these schools to the top privates or anything like that - but to other church schools and parish schools) then consider Trinity Christian out in Fairfax.

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Anonymous wrote:There's a new private school with a "classical and Christian education" in Arlington. I believe it's called Tyndale Christian School. It is Anglican, so I believe they follow the Church of England, thus not Catholic strictly speaking.

It's ACNA, which is different than CoE by a lot.

Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) is in communion with the Anglican Global South and generally follows the actual Church of England. It is, however, very distinct from the US Episcopal Church. In several ways, ACNA is more similar to the actual CoE in England than the US Episcopal church.

That noted, the interesting thing to some of us on the sidelines is how much larger (active members) and more successful The Falls Church Anglican has been than The Falls Church (Episcopal) which it split off from.

The goyim really are nuts.

That we are. You are probably going to be happier at one of the classical Christian schools. It is hard to get into Catholic schools as a non-Catholic.

OP probably is. We definitively would not have been. We chose independent (Congressional) for K-8.

[Anonymous]

To the PPs who mentioned St. James in FCC: is it difficult to get into? - not OP

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Seems like OP has left the chat anyway.

[Anonymous]

I just saw that St. Rita in Alexandria is a "Classical School" and there is still room for students in multiple grades for next year.

[Anonymous]

Veritas Christian Academy in Arlington

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Anonymous wrote:To the PPs who mentioned St. James in FCC: is it difficult to get into? - not OP

There is a waitlist, but families do get it in.