AA Children in Virginia Private Schools...do they exist?

[Anonymous]

We have been in the Alexandria City and Fairfax County daycare/preschool shuffle for a number of years now. More often than not DC is the only AA child in their class. I'm wondering if this will be the norm if DC starts K in a private? Our local public would pretty much be the same as our previous experiences.

We recently toured Browne Academy and felt that might be the only school where DC could possibly have other AA classmates. From your experience, is this the only school or are there others out there like it?

[Anonymous]

there definitely are AA children at my child's Alexandria private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:there definitely are AA children at my child's Alexandria private.

Would you mind sharing the school name?

[Anonymous]

Browne is the perfect fit for you. Tons of AA kids. Ask to speak to a current AA family.

[Anonymous]

Potomac school.

[Anonymous]

Have you looked at SSSAS and Burgundy Farm?

[Anonymous]

Both of my children's classrooms at Potomac contain 3 or more than one AA children (in 16-18 person classrooms).

[Anonymous]

It is tough to find more than one or two AAs per grade level in Alexandria City privates. You might want to consider a parochial school like Blessed Sacrament or St. Rita's, which won't have any more AA's but they will have other children of color. Your best bet, though, is Queen of Apostles, which is just outside of the City border in Lincolnia. It is an absolute gem of a school and it is -very- highly diverse!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have been in the Alexandria City and Fairfax County daycare/preschool shuffle for a number of years now. More often than not DC is the only AA child in their class. I'm wondering if this will be the norm if DC starts K in a private? Our local public would pretty much be the same as our previous experiences.

We recently toured Browne Academy and felt that might be the only school where DC could possibly have other AA classmates. From your experience, is this the only school or are there others out there like it?

What is the problem with the 100,000 AA kids in DC, if skin color is so important to you?

[Anonymous]

Look at Congressional. The classes are very diverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have been in the Alexandria City and Fairfax County daycare/preschool shuffle for a number of years now. More often than not DC is the only AA child in their class. I'm wondering if this will be the norm if DC starts K in a private? Our local public would pretty much be the same as our previous experiences.

We recently toured Browne Academy and felt that might be the only school where DC could possibly have other AA classmates. From your experience, is this the only school or are there others out there like it?

What is the problem with the 100,000 AA kids in DC, if skin color is so important to you?

I think you misunderstand, PP. The OP is referring to 'Dear Child' when using the abbreviation DC. And if OP lives in Virginia then OP is not interested in OP's DC attending public school in WDC.

[Anonymous]

AA mom here, 2 kids at ACDS. Youngest is one of 5 AA children in K and older child has 3 other AA in their class (1 of 2 sections in grade). Having a reasonable number of other children of color in the class was one driver in the decision (reasonable being totally subjective and personal comfort). In 2017 I think (hope) your child would have other AA classmates at any Virginia private school. We chose ACDS and are quite happy. Other family members have been happy at Browne, also have good things to say about Potomac from this perspective. Nothing against the other area privates, I just don't know anyone personally who has attended/has kids at those schools. We found it worthwhile to speak 1:1 with AA families at the schools where the kids were accepted, Julie (ACDS AD) was really helpful.

[Anonymous]

Langley is quite diverse -- in K, which has 12 or 13 children per class, there are 2 or 3 AA children, a few Hispanic children, a number of Asians and some mixed race children.

[Anonymous]

SSSAS has about 15% AA population. Very few other minorities like Hispanic, Indian or Asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at SSSAS and Burgundy Farm?

Las a person of Color, I had serious reservations about SSSAS -- it's got a lot of richwhite southern Reoublicans whose views influence the feel of the school community. Burgundy is a much better environment for minority kids.