for data wonks: charts on DC public vs. private enrollment trends

[Anonymous]

I have lived in DC for over 30 years and know of kids all over the city who attend a wide variety of private schools. They're not just WOTP. the 16th Street corridor, for example (Crestwood, 16th Street Heights, Colonial Village) has a big population of private school kids.

[Anonymous]

Great to know!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in NW (East of the Park) and offhand, I can think of at least 32 kids in our neighborhood that go private.

That's good to know, which schools do they go to? Just curious as I feel like on the pct threads they always seem to say no one lives outside of the areas close to the schools or in MD/VA. Not trolling here, just curious to know which pvt schools are represented eotp as that could be a consideration for us.

We live East of the Park on my street kids attend Beauvoir, St. Andrews, Grace Episcopal, JPDS, and Blessed Sacrament. The other two kids go to Yu Ying.

[Anonymous]

Again, asking in earnest not trolling, do you feel like a cheaper mortgage has allowed pvt to be an option or was pvt always the plan?

[Anonymous]

I am an earlier poster who questioned the purported number of private school students for the entire city (805). (no way).

I am significantly WoTP and on our block alone we have: GDS (6), Blessed Sacrament (4), Sheridan (1) , St John's (1), NPS (1), Sidwell (4), Holton (1), NCS (1), St. Albans (1), Gonzaga (1) Bullis (1) Field (1)

So what is that, 24, 22? private school students on just one city block. To be sure, there are plenty of DCPS kids too, but the reality that there's 20-some private school students in one tiny dot of a geographic area tells me that 800 total is way, way, way too low.

[Anonymous]

We have 7 kids total on my block. Three are school aged. Two go to DCPS and one to charter. 6 years ago there were 3 teenagers on my block; no little kids. They all went to DCPS.

Where are these blocks with 30+ kids on them!?

[Anonymous]

We have three school aged kids on our block. All three go to the same charter. They would have gone private but for getting into a good charter.

[Anonymous]

Our block has about 20 kids - Capitol Hill. Most DCPS and charter. I don't any any in private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our block has about 20 kids - Capitol Hill. Most DCPS and charter. I don't any any in private.

I'm on Capitol Hill too. People use Peabody through kindergarten. After that, it's private/parochial, or try unsuccessfully to get away from the inbounds school and thus move to Montgomery County. St. Peter's has such a long wait-list that provides little hope. We're enrolling in an excellent parochial across town. Tax money here for public is a waste; parents should get a credit for providing their own education. Otherwise SES families often move, and their tax money goes with them including neighborhood stability.

[Anonymous]

The only winner I see in this statistic is charter schools. Public schools are by far the biggest losers. Are you surprised?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only winner I see in this statistic is charter schools. Public schools are by far the biggest losers. Are you surprised?

Charter school are public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, asking in earnest not trolling, do you feel like a cheaper mortgage has allowed pvt to be an option or was pvt always the plan?

For us private was always the plan before we moved here from NYC. Did not know that public schools were an option in DC since all you ever heard about DC public schools were how bad they were. Did not move to a JKLMM neighborhood b/c we did not have a car and wanted to be within walking distance to work. We could easily afford to live WoTP and pay for private school. Found a place EoTP and got into an immersion language charter (also applied to private schools but decided not to go). Very pleased with our choice. NYC does not have any schools that offer immersion for 3/4 yrs and goes through high schools and for free. Even their schools that offer IB programs for elementary, middle and high schools do not offer immersion language for preschoolers. We feel very fortunate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, asking in earnest not trolling, do you feel like a cheaper mortgage has allowed pvt to be an option or was pvt always the plan?

For us private was always the plan before we moved here from NYC. Did not know that public schools were an option in DC since all you ever heard about DC public schools were how bad they were. Did not move to a JKLMM neighborhood b/c we did not have a car and wanted to be within walking distance to work. We could easily afford to live WoTP and pay for private school. Found a place EoTP and got into an immersion language charter (also applied to private schools but decided not to go). Very pleased with our choice. NYC does not have any schools that offer immersion for 3/4 yrs and goes through high schools and for free. Even their schools that offer IB programs for elementary, middle and high schools do not offer immersion language for preschoolers. We feel very fortunate!

glad the lottery worked out for you!