Holy Trinity Bowie

[Anonymous]

My wife and I are interested in this school, but we don't know much about where the graduates enroll for high school. We saw a flyer showing high school acceptances at Sidwell, Maret, Georgetown Day, National Cathedral and St. Albans. Can anyone who has a child enrolled at the school tell me how many students actually matriculated to these specific schools from the 2013 graduating class and/or could provide a link to the matriculation list for this year. Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Anonymous]

Great question - I am wondering the same thing. The academic program does not seem particularly rigourous, but the exmissions information is impressive.

[Anonymous]

I have heard they are good but very rules-oriented. From the parent perspective it has been mentioned here before they require you sign the full contract early. More typical is a deposit after admission, then the full contract and first payment in june. That date is before many hear back from other programs they might be interested in. If they are your first choice, it might not be a problem.

[Anonymous]

Hi -- Both my kids attend Holy Trinity. I have one in the lower school and the other in the middle school. I don't have the exact numbers but in looking through the yearbook I was impressed at where these kids go. Madeira, ERHS science and tech, Visitation, Sidwell, DeMatha, Bullis, Indian Creek, Gonzaga, Holton Arms etc.

As for the comment that HT is not particularly rigorous, I have found the opposite to be true. Many found 5th grade so rigorous in fact that the parents needed a support group themselves to help their kids deal with the workload.

At the lower school level, it is not like that. I think kids in the primary grades at HT are taught what is developmentally appropriate. Many schools, I think, in response to parental pressure, introduce concepts that kids are not yet ready to learn because it impresses prospective parents who want to see that their money is being well-spent. Holy Trinity really focuses on the development of the whole child -- moral, education, physical, the arts. I really love what my kids have gotten there. I have two very different kids and they meet them both where they are.

I would agree about HT being rule-oriented. There is a lot of structure and that even applies to paying your tuition bill. Can't argue with that.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. Can you be more specific about the number of students in each 8th grade class and the number of students per year that actually attend Sidwell, Maret, St. Albans/NCS, Holton-Arms and Georgetown Day School? Is it 10, 20, 30% or more? The exmission information the school gave out for 2013 regarding student high school acceptances could be misleading if one or more students are accepted at all of the schools listed above during 2013. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

PP, that is such a good point.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry. I don't have that information. As I said, I just scanned the yearbook where the kids share where they are going. A good number of them were still undecided.

Please bear in mind, this is a Prince George's County school. The vast majority, it seems, go to DeMatha, McNamara, Seton, Roosevelt Sci and Tech b/c they are nearby. I think there will be always be a handful -- not an overwhelming number -- of kids attending the big name schools.

While I understand that it's very important to many people, I never really paid attention, beyond curiosity, of where the kids go to high school as I don't want to send my kids outside the community for high school to one of the big name DC schools you mentioned. I don't want my kids in that sort of rarefied, bubble environment of entitlement and wealth. Even if we could afford it

[Anonymous]

Three of my kids attended HTS K-12 and we loved it, though we miss the old school head (Peggy Reiber was beyond amazing). All of them had excellent foundations. My son went on to earn a full ride to college and was accepted at places like UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, etc.

Two of my kids went to HS at Eleanor Roosevelt, and I am a huge ERHS booster--can't rave enough about its program. My other one went to Seton on an academic scholarship.

Their classmates went to places like Academy of the Holy Cross, Georgetown Prep, DeMatha, Indian Creek, St. John's College HS, Key, and similar places.

When my kids attended, each grade was limited to 60 students--unsure whether that's still the case.

[Anonymous]

Oops--I'm the PP and I should have said my kids all attended HTS from K-8!