How wealthy are families at Jackson Reed

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

Somewhere north of 75% of the JR IB families send their kids to schools outside DCPS and I think it's safe to assume that most go private. That feels like pretty good evidence of families choosing to look elsewhere to me. As for 'many families' earning 425K - what do you base that on? As a former Wilson/JR parent, I'd find that very hard to believe. Sure, there are some. But I'd suggest there are many, many more families earning well under 100k.

I certainly do not dispute the bolded point.

And I’m interested in the “north of 75% figure”—what’s the source for this? I find it hard to believe—especially considering the portion of families in our high-income neighborhood with kids at JR or Walls.

Finally, the “many families” earning $425K+ reflects our experience as a current JR family, and many other JR families we know, some of whom since our kids were in pre-K. Lots of two-income professional families: law firm partners, tech folks, consulting firm execs, fed SES, etc. I don’t contend that this group is a majority of JR families, but it’s well-represented.

All you have to do is look at white kids at JR which is proxy for UMC and ward 3 so yes PP above is correct. There are some OOB UMC kids who are white coming from EOTP that make up the total white students so I would argue yes 75% IB sounds right that don’t go to JR. I

Also almost 40% kids are very poor who fall in at risk, homeless, and english language learners. This is not counting the low SES families who don’t fit these very narrow categories who are poor. So yes, JR is most likely majority below 100k.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

Somewhere north of 75% of the JR IB families send their kids to schools outside DCPS and I think it's safe to assume that most go private. That feels like pretty good evidence of families choosing to look elsewhere to me. As for 'many families' earning 425K - what do you base that on? As a former Wilson/JR parent, I'd find that very hard to believe. Sure, there are some. But I'd suggest there are many, many more families earning well under 100k.

I certainly do not dispute the bolded point.

And I’m interested in the “north of 75% figure”—what’s the source for this? I find it hard to believe—especially considering the portion of families in our high-income neighborhood with kids at JR or Walls.

Finally, the “many families” earning $425K+ reflects our experience as a current JR family, and many other JR families we know, some of whom since our kids were in pre-K. Lots of two-income professional families: law firm partners, tech folks, consulting firm execs, fed SES, etc. I don’t contend that this group is a majority of JR families, but it’s well-represented.

Granted, this is back of an envelope stuff, but JR IB (until v recently) = all of ward 3, most of wards 2 & 4 - IB population has to be (conservatively) well over 100k. JR IB kids = 1200ish from an expected high school age population of at least 5-6K for that size. Perhaps there's an older demographic and fewer kids in NW, I dunno. But I doubt I'm too far off the mark. Of course, some will go to OOB selective DCPS and charter schools, but we know as a matter of record that 60% of white kids in DC are educated privately (not that I'm keen to reduce this to race) so again, I feel comfortable saying that most families of means in our neighborhood choose to educate their kids elsewhere. I will also add that I was not a math major...

I am, as I suspect you are, hugely supportive of public education. I think it's a societal 'good' and wish more could be done to persuade families to educate their kids locally. And yes, I too know a number of high earning families who have chosen to educate kids in the local public system, but I wonder if we tend to over estimate the size and influence of groups of which we are a part. After all, there are likely over a thousand families with kids at JR.

Just food for thought. Long live the public schools!

This is actually answerable with census data, as ward 3 + georgetown is in the same PUMA.

So in this area, the 5-year rolling estimate (ACS 2022 vintage) is 9317 kids over 3 in public school and 23486 in private. BUT! there is a catch, this includes georgetown and AU students!. Luckily its you can break out by bands. For K-8, 5712 in public and 5198 in private. For 9-12 1508 in public and 1364 in private. For Preschool, it is reversed 1913 in private and 705 in public.

So you don't have to make up numbers from made up statistics. Again, the cuts of data are all available to anyone with rudimentary data science skills.

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Hmm why are all my neighbors there?

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It turns out that i used the 1-year and not 5-year ACS. so this is more reflective of the post-covid reality than otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:The families at Jackson Reed are likely representative of those all over the city as it is the largest public high school in the city.

Eh but a heck of a lot of folks can't afford to move in bounds for it.... myself included

I assume you mean purchase in-boundary R/E.

Honestly, there are tons of reasonable apartments along CT Avenue that feed into JR. Not exactly a cool area for renters like Navy Yard or any number of downtown areas, so rents are cheaper.

There are a fair number of renters with kids at JR, as well as rank-and-file embassy employees (i.e., these aren't ambassadors or high-level foreign emissaries) who send their kids to DCPS.

When did the embassies stop paying for private?! It’s a major reason to be a white collar staffer.

i think since forever. I doubt the Chinese embassy (or any other embassy) would pay Sidwell's tuition for the janitors who clean the embassy, the cafeteria staff , the employee at the passport renewal office and so on.

Not the point of this thread, but when we lived overseas and worked at an embassy, many of this type of job (except for passport renewal) were staffed by local hires.

Maybe it differs by country? We know many children of rank-and-file embassy staffers from Peru and Vietnam that are janitors, security guards, etc. are locals from the home country, and they send their kids to DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

Somewhere north of 75% of the JR IB families send their kids to schools outside DCPS and I think it's safe to assume that most go private. That feels like pretty good evidence of families choosing to look elsewhere to me. As for 'many families' earning 425K - what do you base that on? As a former Wilson/JR parent, I'd find that very hard to believe. Sure, there are some. But I'd suggest there are many, many more families earning well under 100k.

I certainly do not dispute the bolded point.

And I’m interested in the “north of 75% figure”—what’s the source for this? I find it hard to believe—especially considering the portion of families in our high-income neighborhood with kids at JR or Walls.

Finally, the “many families” earning $425K+ reflects our experience as a current JR family, and many other JR families we know, some of whom since our kids were in pre-K. Lots of two-income professional families: law firm partners, tech folks, consulting firm execs, fed SES, etc. I don’t contend that this group is a majority of JR families, but it’s well-represented.

Granted, this is back of an envelope stuff, but JR IB (until v recently) = all of ward 3, most of wards 2 & 4 - IB population has to be (conservatively) well over 100k. JR IB kids = 1200ish from an expected high school age population of at least 5-6K for that size. Perhaps there's an older demographic and fewer kids in NW, I dunno. But I doubt I'm too far off the mark. Of course, some will go to OOB selective DCPS and charter schools, but we know as a matter of record that 60% of white kids in DC are educated privately (not that I'm keen to reduce this to race) so again, I feel comfortable saying that most families of means in our neighborhood choose to educate their kids elsewhere. I will also add that I was not a math major...

I am, as I suspect you are, hugely supportive of public education. I think it's a societal 'good' and wish more could be done to persuade families to educate their kids locally. And yes, I too know a number of high earning families who have chosen to educate kids in the local public system, but I wonder if we tend to over estimate the size and influence of groups of which we are a part. After all, there are likely over a thousand families with kids at JR.

Just food for thought. Long live the public schools!

This is actually answerable with census data, as ward 3 + georgetown is in the same PUMA.

So in this area, the 5-year rolling estimate (ACS 2022 vintage) is 9317 kids over 3 in public school and 23486 in private. BUT! there is a catch, this includes georgetown and AU students!. Luckily its you can break out by bands. For K-8, 5712 in public and 5198 in private. For 9-12 1508 in public and 1364 in private. For Preschool, it is reversed 1913 in private and 705 in public.

So you don't have to make up numbers from made up statistics. Again, the cuts of data are all available to anyone with rudimentary data science skills.

This passes the sniff test. I was going to say 50% of kids in bounds for JR attend DCPS or charter...and the above figures are 52.5%. Of the 1508 above, probably like 1200-1300 are at JR vs. Walls (some also at Banneker and McKinley) or a charter like Basis.

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Anonymous wrote:Runs the gamut. Immigrant kids who are separated from their parents and can hardly speak English. Low SES from all over the city. Lots of higher SES kids from upper NW. And some super wealthy. But, those super wealthy aren't the kind who show it off so it's hard to know. But, nothing like the privates. Thank God!

This seems about right. Kids run the gamut - but the overall vibe is upper Northwest parents - house rich, lots of lawyers, lobbyists, plenty of politics-adjacent/non-profit/think tank/media workers to political employees. Plenty of wealth, lots of financial security, but not ostentatious about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

Somewhere north of 75% of the JR IB families send their kids to schools outside DCPS and I think it's safe to assume that most go private. That feels like pretty good evidence of families choosing to look elsewhere to me. As for 'many families' earning 425K - what do you base that on? As a former Wilson/JR parent, I'd find that very hard to believe. Sure, there are some. But I'd suggest there are many, many more families earning well under 100k.

I certainly do not dispute the bolded point.

And I’m interested in the “north of 75% figure”—what’s the source for this? I find it hard to believe—especially considering the portion of families in our high-income neighborhood with kids at JR or Walls.

Finally, the “many families” earning $425K+ reflects our experience as a current JR family, and many other JR families we know, some of whom since our kids were in pre-K. Lots of two-income professional families: law firm partners, tech folks, consulting firm execs, fed SES, etc. I don’t contend that this group is a majority of JR families, but it’s well-represented.

Granted, this is back of an envelope stuff, but JR IB (until v recently) = all of ward 3, most of wards 2 & 4 - IB population has to be (conservatively) well over 100k. JR IB kids = 1200ish from an expected high school age population of at least 5-6K for that size. Perhaps there's an older demographic and fewer kids in NW, I dunno. But I doubt I'm too far off the mark. Of course, some will go to OOB selective DCPS and charter schools, but we know as a matter of record that 60% of white kids in DC are educated privately (not that I'm keen to reduce this to race) so again, I feel comfortable saying that most families of means in our neighborhood choose to educate their kids elsewhere. I will also add that I was not a math major...

I am, as I suspect you are, hugely supportive of public education. I think it's a societal 'good' and wish more could be done to persuade families to educate their kids locally. And yes, I too know a number of high earning families who have chosen to educate kids in the local public system, but I wonder if we tend to over estimate the size and influence of groups of which we are a part. After all, there are likely over a thousand families with kids at JR.

Just food for thought. Long live the public schools!

This is actually answerable with census data, as ward 3 + georgetown is in the same PUMA.

So in this area, the 5-year rolling estimate (ACS 2022 vintage) is 9317 kids over 3 in public school and 23486 in private. BUT! there is a catch, this includes georgetown and AU students!. Luckily its you can break out by bands. For K-8, 5712 in public and 5198 in private. For 9-12 1508 in public and 1364 in private. For Preschool, it is reversed 1913 in private and 705 in public.

So you don't have to make up numbers from made up statistics. Again, the cuts of data are all available to anyone with rudimentary data science skills.

This passes the sniff test. I was going to say 50% of kids in bounds for JR attend DCPS or charter...and the above figures are 52.5%. Of the 1508 above, probably like 1200-1300 are at JR vs. Walls (some also at Banneker and McKinley) or a charter like Basis.

You can actually get this breakdown from the Public School Enrollments per DCPS Boundary data. For SY23-24 there were:

- 1994 students at J-R overall
- 1640 students living in boundary for J-R
-- 1088 at J-R
-- 164 at SWW
-- 82 at CHEC
-- 50 at DCI
-- 46 at Duke Ellington
-- 36 at Latin
-- 33 at Banneker
-- 28 at MacArthur
-- 17 at Roosevelt
-- 15 at Coolidge
-- 12 at BASIS
-- 10 at Cardozo

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

Somewhere north of 75% of the JR IB families send their kids to schools outside DCPS and I think it's safe to assume that most go private. That feels like pretty good evidence of families choosing to look elsewhere to me. As for 'many families' earning 425K - what do you base that on? As a former Wilson/JR parent, I'd find that very hard to believe. Sure, there are some. But I'd suggest there are many, many more families earning well under 100k.

I certainly do not dispute the bolded point.

And I’m interested in the “north of 75% figure”—what’s the source for this? I find it hard to believe—especially considering the portion of families in our high-income neighborhood with kids at JR or Walls.

Finally, the “many families” earning $425K+ reflects our experience as a current JR family, and many other JR families we know, some of whom since our kids were in pre-K. Lots of two-income professional families: law firm partners, tech folks, consulting firm execs, fed SES, etc. I don’t contend that this group is a majority of JR families, but it’s well-represented.

Granted, this is back of an envelope stuff, but JR IB (until v recently) = all of ward 3, most of wards 2 & 4 - IB population has to be (conservatively) well over 100k. JR IB kids = 1200ish from an expected high school age population of at least 5-6K for that size. Perhaps there's an older demographic and fewer kids in NW, I dunno. But I doubt I'm too far off the mark. Of course, some will go to OOB selective DCPS and charter schools, but we know as a matter of record that 60% of white kids in DC are educated privately (not that I'm keen to reduce this to race) so again, I feel comfortable saying that most families of means in our neighborhood choose to educate their kids elsewhere. I will also add that I was not a math major...

I am, as I suspect you are, hugely supportive of public education. I think it's a societal 'good' and wish more could be done to persuade families to educate their kids locally. And yes, I too know a number of high earning families who have chosen to educate kids in the local public system, but I wonder if we tend to over estimate the size and influence of groups of which we are a part. After all, there are likely over a thousand families with kids at JR.

Just food for thought. Long live the public schools!

This is actually answerable with census data, as ward 3 + georgetown is in the same PUMA.

So in this area, the 5-year rolling estimate (ACS 2022 vintage) is 9317 kids over 3 in public school and 23486 in private. BUT! there is a catch, this includes georgetown and AU students!. Luckily its you can break out by bands. For K-8, 5712 in public and 5198 in private. For 9-12 1508 in public and 1364 in private. For Preschool, it is reversed 1913 in private and 705 in public.

So you don't have to make up numbers from made up statistics. Again, the cuts of data are all available to anyone with rudimentary data science skills.

This passes the sniff test. I was going to say 50% of kids in bounds for JR attend DCPS or charter...and the above figures are 52.5%. Of the 1508 above, probably like 1200-1300 are at JR vs. Walls (some also at Banneker and McKinley) or a charter like Basis.

You can actually get this breakdown from the Public School Enrollments per DCPS Boundary data. For SY23-24 there were:

- 1994 students at J-R overall
- 1640 students living in boundary for J-R
-- 1088 at J-R
-- 164 at SWW
-- 82 at CHEC
-- 50 at DCI
-- 46 at Duke Ellington
-- 36 at Latin
-- 33 at Banneker
-- 28 at MacArthur
-- 17 at Roosevelt
-- 15 at Coolidge
-- 12 at BASIS
-- 10 at Cardozo

Forgot to mention the 1640 living in boundary only reflects students enrolled in DCPS or DCPCS schools. It doesn't capture the private school students.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

Somewhere north of 75% of the JR IB families send their kids to schools outside DCPS and I think it's safe to assume that most go private. That feels like pretty good evidence of families choosing to look elsewhere to me. As for 'many families' earning 425K - what do you base that on? As a former Wilson/JR parent, I'd find that very hard to believe. Sure, there are some. But I'd suggest there are many, many more families earning well under 100k.

I certainly do not dispute the bolded point.

And I’m interested in the “north of 75% figure”—what’s the source for this? I find it hard to believe—especially considering the portion of families in our high-income neighborhood with kids at JR or Walls.

Finally, the “many families” earning $425K+ reflects our experience as a current JR family, and many other JR families we know, some of whom since our kids were in pre-K. Lots of two-income professional families: law firm partners, tech folks, consulting firm execs, fed SES, etc. I don’t contend that this group is a majority of JR families, but it’s well-represented.

Granted, this is back of an envelope stuff, but JR IB (until v recently) = all of ward 3, most of wards 2 & 4 - IB population has to be (conservatively) well over 100k. JR IB kids = 1200ish from an expected high school age population of at least 5-6K for that size. Perhaps there's an older demographic and fewer kids in NW, I dunno. But I doubt I'm too far off the mark. Of course, some will go to OOB selective DCPS and charter schools, but we know as a matter of record that 60% of white kids in DC are educated privately (not that I'm keen to reduce this to race) so again, I feel comfortable saying that most families of means in our neighborhood choose to educate their kids elsewhere. I will also add that I was not a math major...

I am, as I suspect you are, hugely supportive of public education. I think it's a societal 'good' and wish more could be done to persuade families to educate their kids locally. And yes, I too know a number of high earning families who have chosen to educate kids in the local public system, but I wonder if we tend to over estimate the size and influence of groups of which we are a part. After all, there are likely over a thousand families with kids at JR.

Just food for thought. Long live the public schools!

Yes, we agree on the importance of public schools.

But other posters have shown your “back of the envelope” math to be faulty. I think you’re guilty of the same sort of assumptions you accuse me of making, just with a different conclusion.

To be clear, again, I don’t believe wealthy families are the majority at JR. I was simply noting that there are many wealthy families at JR—contrary to the assumption that wealthy families who choose to send their kids are an unusual exception.

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Hello! Mt Pleasant resident reminding you all that JR's IB area includes some neighborhoods east of the park (MtP, Shepherd Park, and parts of Adams Morgan) and in wards other than 2 and 3 are zoned for JR! Please do not take JR's area to be synonymous with WOTP.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

This. We’re comfortably above that income level, currently paying full freight for college for our one kid out of monthly income with money left over for things like travel and brokerage fund contributions (after maxing retirement), and our son was the one of the least wealthy of his immediate friend group. They weren’t billionaires, but they were $2.5M beach house kinda wealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

This. We’re comfortably above that income level, currently paying full freight for college for our one kid out of monthly income with money left over for things like travel and brokerage fund contributions (after maxing retirement), and our son was the one of the least wealthy of his immediate friend group. They weren’t billionaires, but they were $2.5M beach house kinda wealthy.

Yup, we can afford private - currently in the feeder system. But planning on MacArthur soon. Half our neighbors are in the private system (lots of Maret and GDS) and half in the public.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

This. We’re comfortably above that income level, currently paying full freight for college for our one kid out of monthly income with money left over for things like travel and brokerage fund contributions (after maxing retirement), and our son was the one of the least wealthy of his immediate friend group. They weren’t billionaires, but they were $2.5M beach house kinda wealthy.

If money is covered please work on the manners. Saw first hand a ton of Jackson Reed act like spoiled children this weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly wealthy? Not that many TBH. If you live in Upper NW and have the money, you are more than likely to send your kid to private than JR. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the majority of Upper NW wealth goes to private (even if they went to public for elementary and middle).

As always, definitions matter. 95th percentile household income in DC is something like 425k. Many families at JR are at and above that range. So if you define wealth as top 5% in DC, there’s lots of wealth at JR.

Which is not the same as saying that it’s not an extremely socioeconomically diverse school—it is! But I’m not sure there’s evidence to support the assertion that people who can afford private but choose JR are “exceptions.”

This. We’re comfortably above that income level, currently paying full freight for college for our one kid out of monthly income with money left over for things like travel and brokerage fund contributions (after maxing retirement), and our son was the one of the least wealthy of his immediate friend group. They weren’t billionaires, but they were $2.5M beach house kinda wealthy.

If money is covered please work on the manners. Saw first hand a ton of Jackson Reed act like spoiled children this weekend.

What happened, o'anonymous vague poster. And are you sure the unmannerly behavior was primarily wealthy kids?