Which K-8 has the best high school placement?
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For folks checking out K-8 schools, this kind of information is interesting. Of course schools change over time as do strong cohorts. Regardless, it is a valid question.
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From the Lowell website.
HIGH SCHOOLS OUR GRADUATES ARE ATTENDING Albert Einstein High School Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Brownell Talbot (NE) Bullis School Duke Ellington School of the Arts École Jeannine Manuel (France) Edmund Burke School Elizabeth Seton Field School Fusion Academy Georgetown Day School Gonzaga College High School Holton-Arms School Holy Cross Landon School Madeira School Maret School Marin Academy (CA) Montgomery Blair High School (CAP) Montgomery Blair High School National Cathedral School New York Public High School North Carolina Public High School Sandy Spring Friends School Sidwell Friends School Siena School St. Alban’s School St. Andrew’s Episcopal School St. John’s College High School St. Stephen's St. Agnes Washington Waldorf School Whitman Whittle Wilson High School |
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Sheridan graduates are currently attending the following high schools:
BCC Bullis Burke CAPS Commonwealth DeMatha Field GDS Gonzaga Landon Latin Madeira Maret McLean NCS Potomac Sidwell St. Albans St. Andrew’s St. John’s Stone Ridge Walls Wilson WIS |
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High Schools for St. Patrick's
https://www.stpatsdc.org/admission/high-school-placement |
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Norwood
CLASS OF 2021 MATRICULATION Norwood graduates do not “feed” into a small group of high schools. In fact, graduates from the Class of 2021 attend 25 different high schools. That’s one of the distinguishing aspects of Norwood: graduates attend “best-fit” high schools where their unique talents, strengths, and gifts can continue to shine. Students from the Class of 2021 were accepted at the following high schools and will attend those schools in bold: Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Bullis School (12) Chatham Hall (VA) Connelly School of the Holy Child Edmund Burke School (2) The Field School Flint Hill School Georgetown Day School (5) Georgetown Preparatory School Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School Holton-Arms School (3) The Lab School of Washington Landon School Langley High School The Madeira School Maret School (3) National Cathedral School (2) Our Lady of Good Counsel High School Poolesville High School Magnet Program The Potomac School (3) Sandy Spring Friends School Santa Catalina School (CA) Sidwell Friends School (4) St. Albans School St. Andrew's Episcopal School (3) St. John's College High School Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart (4) Thomas Wootton High School Walt Whitman High School (2) Washington International School Whittle School & Studios Winston Churchill High School Woodberry Forest School (VA) |
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I'm the DCPS poster that you're mocking. I have kids at two different Big3 privates who left from DCPS. One joined a Big3 in 7th and the other (a different Big3 school) in 9th. I actually have a lot of experience in the private school application process and many friends who attend or attended the K-8 schools in lieu of DCPS (some joining at PK, some in 5th, some in 7th). Some I've met while they were in DCPS and others since we've been at the two Big3 schools. You can mock me all you want but I stand by my view that it makes sense that about 20% of these K-8 school students are appropriate for the rigor of the top high schools. The yearly admit rates from the K-8 schools bear this out. 20% may seem low but it's much higher than the admission rates from public schools. When you apply out from a public school you are often competing against 30 kids from your school for what will turn out to be one spot (and all 30 kids will likely be among the highest flyers of the 600 kids in the grade). So 20% chance from a K-8 (if an elite high school is the goal) is quite good in comparison. |
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| old boys society - they like to pick from the other privates |
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| Another takeaway is that one’s views of their K-8 experience likely turn on how happy they were with outplacement. The families that are happy of course think the K-8 model worked well for them. But are families whose kids were not admitted to their school of choice (whatever it was) still happy they chose the K-8 model? |
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For sure, outplacement plays a role in how people view the K8 in retrospect. But a lot higher percentage of people match at their first choice school at our K8 than you might guess just looking at a list. You have to remember these schools serve a variety of different levels of students. So students placing at, say, St. Andrews (which is a lovely school) are often hitting their preferred destination. Not everyone (or even a majority) is hoping for Sidwell and then going down the list of most prestigious or whatever. Sidwell would be a miserable placement for many kids at our school. At our school, my sense was that 70-80% or so hit their first course school or a school in the same range. But we are a smaller K8 so that might make it somewhat easier in some respects. Maybe about 20% were not happy with the outcome. But a good chunk of these are people that are just being unrealistic and are unusually vocal. |
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| Nice job, Norwood! |
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Parent of high schooler here whose kids graduated from one of the following k-8s in the last few years: Norwood, St. Pat's or Sheridan. Every single kid we've known personally -- so maybe 35? 40? -- said their #1 top choice for HS was Sidwell, Maret, GDS, or NCS. Maybe one said Potomac.
But only a handful of those 35+ kids would actually be a good fit for those specific schools (save Maret.) The workload and crushing high academic expectations would've been a terrible, terrible match for a lot of kids who swore they were Sidwell-or-bust. A lot of these families were bitterly disappointed that they weren't admitted to certain target high schools and they'd tell you "it's a lottery" or they blame the outplacement individuals at the K-8. But it's not a lottery, and outplacement advisors can't make an 8th grader into something s/he's not just because their 'top choice' is a Cathedral HS. In almost all cases, the most competitive-entry high schools selected the correct students from our K-8. That not every Sidwell applicant didn't get an offer doesn't reflect poorly on our school. |
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| How many years of graduates are accounted for in the Lowell list above? One or last 5, last 10? |
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Not one because there were no STA or NCS admits from this past year's class. |