Most famous DC Private

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Anonymous wrote:It's Sidwell and nothing else. Maybe some of the schools with big football feeders are famous among sports fans who pay attention to stuff like where NFL players went to high school. But your average person has heard of Sidwell because presidents' kids go there and that's it.

People don't remember the name of the schools involved in the Kavanaugh hearings, just that the people involved went to some hoity private Catholic schools.

If you ranked all private schools in the country in terms of fame, Sidwell might crack the top 10 (might) and no other DC school would rank. It would mostly be schools like Harvard-Westlake, Phillips Exeter, Choate, Exeter, Spence -- places they've heard of because famous people send their kids there or people write books about them or lots of well known politicians, writers and celebrities attended. This is not the case with any DC school except Sidwell.

This is completely stupid. If you think more people have heard of Choate or Spence than the big sports schools you need to get out more. That’s an insane opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's DeMatha or Gonzaga. More people know sports than academics.

Most people know neither. The only reason you know or care that those schools produce good athletes is because they are local schools. Lots of places have a local school or two that is known for some sports program or another, and can tell you "oh such and such athlete went there." But you or I would never recognize the name of the school because it's in Dallas or Denver or Atlanta or something.

People know Sidwell because it made the news a lot as the place that Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls went. It has nothing to do with academics. It has to do with fame. People care about where very famous people go.

This is just completely wrong. Just because you don’t follow football or basketball doesn’t mean that millions and millions of people do. Sidwell is fairly well known because the Clintons and Obamas but you grossly underestimate how many people could name more than a handful of the high school football powers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's Sidwell and nothing else. Maybe some of the schools with big football feeders are famous among sports fans who pay attention to stuff like where NFL players went to high school. But your average person has heard of Sidwell because presidents' kids go there and that's it.

People don't remember the name of the schools involved in the Kavanaugh hearings, just that the people involved went to some hoity private Catholic schools.

If you ranked all private schools in the country in terms of fame, Sidwell might crack the top 10 (might) and no other DC school would rank. It would mostly be schools like Harvard-Westlake, Phillips Exeter, Choate, Exeter, Spence -- places they've heard of because famous people send their kids there or people write books about them or lots of well known politicians, writers and celebrities attended. This is not the case with any DC school except Sidwell.

This is completely stupid. If you think more people have heard of Choate or Spence than the big sports schools you need to get out more. That’s an insane opinion.

Gwyneth Paltrow went to Spence. Many, many people know this. Choate gets mentioned in lots of stories as kind of a classic "rich kid private" -- it's been in Gilmore Girls and the Catcher in the Rye (yeah, yeah, no one reads -- but people over the age of 35 were probably required to read CitR in high school and forced to discuss it in class, thus more likely to know the reference).

Most sports fans do not track where players went to high school. College yes, but not high school (especially for football). Here I can prove it -- name 10 other schools outside the DMV that are well known NBA feeders. You can't. They exist, but you don't know their names because they are not local to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's DeMatha or Gonzaga. More people know sports than academics.

Most people know neither. The only reason you know or care that those schools produce good athletes is because they are local schools. Lots of places have a local school or two that is known for some sports program or another, and can tell you "oh such and such athlete went there." But you or I would never recognize the name of the school because it's in Dallas or Denver or Atlanta or something.

People know Sidwell because it made the news a lot as the place that Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls went. It has nothing to do with academics. It has to do with fame. People care about where very famous people go.

This is just completely wrong. Just because you don’t follow football or basketball doesn’t mean that millions and millions of people do. Sidwell is fairly well known because the Clintons and Obamas but you grossly underestimate how many people could name more than a handful of the high school football powers.

I do follow pro football and basketball. I could not tell you where most football players attended high school. I might be able to tell you "they're from Texas" or something. Basketball is a bit different but honestly, once they are in the NBA who cares. There are lots of basketball programs in the country that have produced well known basketball players. I only notice the ones who went to DeMatha because DeMatha is local to me. My brother is also a big basketball fan but he lives in California and when I mentioned DeMatha to him he was like "that sounds kind of familiar" but he would not have been able to produce the name on his own.

Meanwhile if you asked people in podunk Iowa what Sidwell is, more of them could tell you "didn't the Obama kids go to school there?" than tell you about DeMatha or Gonzaga. Except that most people would assume you were talking about the Gonzaga college basketball program.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's Sidwell and nothing else. Maybe some of the schools with big football feeders are famous among sports fans who pay attention to stuff like where NFL players went to high school. But your average person has heard of Sidwell because presidents' kids go there and that's it.

People don't remember the name of the schools involved in the Kavanaugh hearings, just that the people involved went to some hoity private Catholic schools.

If you ranked all private schools in the country in terms of fame, Sidwell might crack the top 10 (might) and no other DC school would rank. It would mostly be schools like Harvard-Westlake, Phillips Exeter, Choate, Exeter, Spence -- places they've heard of because famous people send their kids there or people write books about them or lots of well known politicians, writers and celebrities attended. This is not the case with any DC school except Sidwell.

This is completely stupid. If you think more people have heard of Choate or Spence than the big sports schools you need to get out more. That’s an insane opinion.

Gwyneth Paltrow went to Spence. Many, many people know this. Choate gets mentioned in lots of stories as kind of a classic "rich kid private" -- it's been in Gilmore Girls and the Catcher in the Rye (yeah, yeah, no one reads -- but people over the age of 35 were probably required to read CitR in high school and forced to discuss it in class, thus more likely to know the reference).

Most sports fans do not track where players went to high school. College yes, but not high school (especially for football). Here I can prove it -- name 10 other schools outside the DMV that are well known NBA feeders. You can't. They exist, but you don't know their names because they are not local to you.

Your view is that more people know that Gwyneth Paltrow went to Spence than LeBron James went to St. Mary-St. Vincent? That is truly hilarious. More people know Choate from the Gilmore Girls than IMG Academy. Lady, if your life experience says that Gilmore Girls and Goop are the most famous things, you might want to get out in the world a little.

[Anonymous]

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.

I don’t believe sports fame spotlights high schools the way you think.

Josh Hart has been in the news lately because the NY Knicks are in the playoffs.
I don’t think most people have heard about Sidwell because he graduated from the school. Sports fans? Maybe. But not the general population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's Sidwell and nothing else. Maybe some of the schools with big football feeders are famous among sports fans who pay attention to stuff like where NFL players went to high school. But your average person has heard of Sidwell because presidents' kids go there and that's it.

People don't remember the name of the schools involved in the Kavanaugh hearings, just that the people involved went to some hoity private Catholic schools.

If you ranked all private schools in the country in terms of fame, Sidwell might crack the top 10 (might) and no other DC school would rank. It would mostly be schools like Harvard-Westlake, Phillips Exeter, Choate, Exeter, Spence -- places they've heard of because famous people send their kids there or people write books about them or lots of well known politicians, writers and celebrities attended. This is not the case with any DC school except Sidwell.

This is completely stupid. If you think more people have heard of Choate or Spence than the big sports schools you need to get out more. That’s an insane opinion.

Gwyneth Paltrow went to Spence. Many, many people know this. Choate gets mentioned in lots of stories as kind of a classic "rich kid private" -- it's been in Gilmore Girls and the Catcher in the Rye (yeah, yeah, no one reads -- but people over the age of 35 were probably required to read CitR in high school and forced to discuss it in class, thus more likely to know the reference).

Most sports fans do not track where players went to high school. College yes, but not high school (especially for football). Here I can prove it -- name 10 other schools outside the DMV that are well known NBA feeders. You can't. They exist, but you don't know their names because they are not local to you.

I could name a whole lot more than 10.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In terms of national profile, it's probably either Gonzaga and DeMatha...maybe Sidwell.

PP here and I agree. I forgot to add Dematha. Nationally known is Sidwell, Gonzaga, Dematha, and I'd add St John's. All mainly due to sports.

Bullis too for track

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.

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No one in LA or NY knows about TJ..........Sidwell.. yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.

People in DC way overestimate how much people follow politics nationwide. The number of people who even know who KBJ is low, let alone her kids. I follow politics and have kids in DC private schools and I didn’t know that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.

Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!

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People are also way underestimating football recruiting culture in the south. I could name 20 high schools in Texas that produce football players and I’ve never lived there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.

Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!

TJ has made national news. Like Lowell public school in San Francisco. I know nobody in San Francisco but l pay attention to the news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.

Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!

If true? Let me google that for you. Lazy.
https://www.gds.org/about/news/story/~board/gds-news/post/remembering-rbg