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What’s difference between Holy Child and Stone Ridge?
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Anonymous
| HC has nice girls, SR breeds mean girls. |
Anonymous
Please don’t do this. Both schools will provide a great education to the OPs daughter. I have 2 graduates of SR. They are not mean girls and neither are their friends. Are there mean girls there? Both of my girls would say yes. There are mean girls in elementary, middle and college. In a class of 90-100 you will have many types of girls. The school does not encourage mean girl behavior. OP- please check them both out. |
Anonymous
This. MY DD was a recent graduate of SR high school and had a great group of friends and she definitely wasn’t a mean girl. Along with her drive, determination and the rigor of SR, she got into her dream college via ED. Both schools seem fine. Now if you are concerned about ethnic diversity, that a different question. |
Anonymous
I would agree with this. HC is not as diverse but they really try. I think between the cost of the school, location (Potomac), it is difficult to attract diverse families when they don't see others like themselves. That said it's a great school and have not heard of any race/racial incidents among the girls who go there. The students are genuinely friendly and supportive and seem to really love this school. We are still in 7th but have a couple of neighbors who send every DD there so they must be doing something right. |
Anonymous
They emphasize joy. Goes back to the founding nun. VERY FEW selective area schools emphasize joy. SR emphasizes "some" joy, ie they have 2 freebie days a year called "congee" and some joy woven throughout. The founding nun, Sister Erskine, wanted the girls to have some fun, but it's all a bit more sober.... HC is ALL about joy in learning according to their founding nun. Which is your child's flavor? Research! |
Anonymous
Definitely several clusters of mean moms there. I don’t know about girls but the moms absolutely. |
Anonymous
Middle and high school in particular. |
Anonymous
| And plenty of nice Moms. In my experience (3 kids all graduated from HS), you don’t spend that much time at your kid’s HS. No need to worry much about mean Moms (not even sure what that means exactly- my kids would say I’m a mean Mom 😂) |
Anonymous
Haha! That's funny  In my experience sometimes you just have to walk up and say hi? I mean, hopefully people say hi back. We are a newer family to SR, and everyone has been perfectly pleasant. "Mingling" isn't always super comfortable, but I'm old enough to realize that socializing and small talk can always be a little bit awkward which is probably why people gravitate to people they already know. Anyhow, we've enjoyed all the events. I really liked the Mother-Daughter mass and breakfast, and I'm not even that religious. But it was touching.
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Anonymous
| LOVE the Mother-Daughter Mass |
Anonymous
How is it for ethnic diversity? Brown family here looking at SR. |
Anonymous
| SR says, I believe, that it is about 30% non-white, which sounds about right to me. My DD has friends who are White, Asian, mixed race, and African-American. But I'd ask the school! Been very happy with SR. |
Anonymous
| Last year SR sent a survey to all families and gave the results in the Fall. The 'sense of community', communication, and Athletic Dept received low grades / negative responses. People were pretty happy with religious aspects and diversity. You could inquire about the survey. My DD is a Fourth Academic and I would agree with the results. |
Anonymous
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How is it for ethnic diversity? Brown family here looking at SR. This was our deciding factor against last year as a fellow brown family. Diversity was highly class year dependent at SR. |
Anonymous
Would you be willing to let a current family how we could access the survey? I don't recall taking the survey. When was it sent? |