Sidwell tuition 2024-25
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All you need to do is go on W and public schools thread and read about the amazing experience there. There’s no problems, right.
To the points on diversity, yes more can be done. Sidwell though really works on doing the right thing. Not the same can be said for many other schools. How do you reconcile the factors? To be fair, diversity should probably be reflective of some range of the community diversity, with merit still the first criterion. The white population is about represented correctly, if perhaps a bit low if you take DMV as the peer group and not DC. But the other populations are under-or over-represented if measured by the same criterion. If you add socioeconomic, top 5 populations by income, on average near or double the white population income, are all Asian. The Black and Hispanic populations are the most disadvantaged. Some soul searching there for our “elite” schools. I have no idea how to solve any of this or if needs solving. This comment isn’t specific to this school, which I think walks its talk very consistently. |
Anonymous
| Hint - you can attend k-8 and save a lot of money before HS. |
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That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.” https://moco360.media/202...o-college/ Facts are facts, and opinions are like a-holes… |
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Totally agree. But! You have to be able to believe that your kid is talented and that others would agree. |
Anonymous
Or just live with the fact that they could do just as great elsewhere. Ours attended Sidwell for US but I am certain they would have done equally well at STA, GDS, Maret, Potomac (they had choices in this other group - it was their choice(s), not ours to attend Sidwell). Go to a school with strong k-8 academics and solid HS placement record and be a nice family (and a nice kid). Trust that your kid can succeed in multiple environments. Once we joined Sidwell, we saw that our k-8 was great and we would not have preferred to be at Sidwell for those grades. Nothing against Sidwell, it's just not what we were looking for. Our kids were equally (often more) prepared than the rising 8th graders from Sidwell. So it all worked out well. But again, Sidwell was not our "goal" it was just one option in a set of alternatives. |
Anonymous
I’d pay $50k to not have our kids in the same class. |
Anonymous
Which school prepared them so well? |
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Preschool-$32,190
Pre_kindergarten-$40,980 Kindergarten-$$44,495 Grades 1-5 $45,730 Grades 6-8 $50,970 Grades 9-12 $51,710 |
Anonymous
| LULZ |
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There are a lot of wealthy families at Sidwell, and very few "donut hole" families as there are at (yes, even) the W schools (and certainly at MCPS schools in the eastern part of the county). Half of the Blair SMCS magnet graduating class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they aren't qualified to attend elite schools. |
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We don't go to Sidwell but another private. I don't think it's worth PreK or elementary but maybe 5th and on up. Or 6th MS on up.
There's a lot of families who aren't going to private because of the mystique. Some families like ours really need it because public would not work for our kid. With learning disabilities, they need the care of private at some point. We may not do HS but only MS for example. Just saying - I don't know if everyone who does private isn't justified on some level so it's not about the prices. I think that it is however much harder to get into HS unless you're a dream of a public school kid at competitive schools like Sidwell so I get that if you really wanted that Sidwell education, you would get in before you actually had/wanted to get in. But I think the idea that you get in for HS is quite stupid actually. Statistically, you're better off in a not great HS if you're a high performing kid. Going to Alexandria HS if you are a well adjusted and academically bright makes better sense than going to a pressure filled pvt HS. Going to Sidwell LS or MS and then going to public is another way to make your kid a stronger candidate for a top college because you give them a strong academic foundation. By HS, they should own their own academic destiny if they are well adjusted kids. Going to Sidwell for K-8 can only mean seriously that you are filthy rich!!! LOL |
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The issue is that ninth grade admission is incredibly competitive as there aren't as many spaces available. |
Anonymous
Are they really? I never knew that. /s |
Anonymous
Madeira $55,800 (day students). Haven't seen what the additional cost is to board your kid and/or her horse. |
Anonymous
Elite schools exist to educate the elite. Any diversity is there to enhance the experience of the kids the school cares about. No changes necessary |