K-8 outplacement for the class of 2023

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from St Patrick’s website for the past 5 years of students:

With about 22 students across the last five years attending boarding schools, other recent destinations have included Christ Church (VA), George (PA), Masters (NY), Salisbury (CT), Episcopal (VA), St. George’s (RI), St. Mark’s (MA), St. Paul’s (NH), and Woodberry Forest (VA).

With respect to day schools, the most frequent destinations across the past five years have been the paired single-sex Cathedral schools (17) of St. Albans (11) and NCS (6), Bullis (13), the paired single-sex schools of Holton and Landon (11), Maret (11), St. Andrew’s (11), Sidwell Friends (11), Madeira (9), and Stone Ridge (8). Other frequent destinations have included Georgetown Day (6), Potomac (6), Holy Child (5), Field (5), and Edmund Burke (4). Several students attended the Catholic high schools of Georgetown Visitation, Gonzaga, St. Anselm’s, and St. John’s during that five-year period, while two attended Georgetown Prep.

Lost me at last five years. This is first year with new HOS. Many are looking to see how Cathedral placement went. Does anyone know about placement to STA/NCS for this year?

To do five years last year must have been awful.

Pretty sure new HOS was at Beauvoir in past and helped kids with outplacement to NCS/StA and other schools..

[Anonymous]

No one is going to NCS and 1 to STA? A lot of families want those goes especially if they are Episcopalian. There also isn’t the help for sixth grade anymore so parents who kept kids through eighth grade were not happy.

[Anonymous]

schools. Other than the Cathedral challenges placement was okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is going to NCS and 1 to STA? A lot of families want those goes especially if they are Episcopalian. There also isn’t the help for sixth grade anymore so parents who kept kids through eighth grade were not happy.

? Your post makes little sense.

[Anonymous]

There was not good outplacement to Cathedral. The school used to have two graduations and some kids would leave after 6th and some after 8th. This is now consolidated to 8th so only have one SAT admit and no one going to NCS is not ideal especially if you are Episcopalian. You would think it would be a lot more kids especially since they stayed all the way through.

[Anonymous]

STA admit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was not good outplacement to Cathedral. The school used to have two graduations and some kids would leave after 6th and some after 8th. This is now consolidated to 8th so only have one SAT admit and no one going to NCS is not ideal especially if you are Episcopalian. You would think it would be a lot more kids especially since they stayed all the way through.

Why are you assuming a lot of kids wanted to go to those schools? There might not even be many Episcopalians at Norwood right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was not good outplacement to Cathedral. The school used to have two graduations and some kids would leave after 6th and some after 8th. This is now consolidated to 8th so only have one SAT admit and no one going to NCS is not ideal especially if you are Episcopalian. You would think it would be a lot more kids especially since they stayed all the way through.

Why are you assuming a lot of kids wanted to go to those schools? There might not even be many Episcopalians at Norwood right now.

The poster is talking about St. Patricks which is an Episcopal school.
It is a bit odd that only one kid went on to attend either NCS or STA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was not good outplacement to Cathedral. The school used to have two graduations and some kids would leave after 6th and some after 8th. This is now consolidated to 8th so only have one SAT admit and no one going to NCS is not ideal especially if you are Episcopalian. You would think it would be a lot more kids especially since they stayed all the way through.

Why are you assuming a lot of kids wanted to go to those schools? There might not even be many Episcopalians at Norwood right now.

The poster is talking about St. Patricks which is an Episcopal school.
It is a bit odd that only one kid went on to attend either NCS or STA.

Better options? Four St.Pats students are heading to Sidwell for 9th. I’m sure that at least one or two of those students were also admitted to NCS/STA.

[Anonymous]

Some additional context that I am not sure a current parent at St. Pats would want to get into...but when I was looking at the school for my kids and asked about outplacement...someone in the administration told me that her child was at NCS and that she was not having a great experience. Someone else there said her kid loved it. I say this to note that the school might be trying to help families pick the school they think is best for their child - without the lens of just being affiliated with the same religion. I'd say sending 4 kids to Sidwell in what is the most competitive entrance year isn't too shabby.

[Anonymous]

Also many who really wanted StA/NCS would have applied out for 4th no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also many who really wanted StA/NCS would have applied out for 4th no?

No, not if the child loves the school and really wants to stay at St. Pats through 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

NCS and STA are both really hard schools. They're not a great fit for anyone but super bright kids who thrive in a demanding environment.
NCS especially--it's really only good for girls who love working extremely hard (and for a mixture of As and Bs).

The K-8s take the gamut of kids---from super bright to kids who sought out the K-8 because they were struggling mightily in public. It makes sense that their grads would choose between a massive span of different schools for high school. NCS would be a great fit for some and a disaster for others.

[Anonymous]

K-8. Always for those who can't get into k-12. You can always leave your k-12 but you're stuck in 8-9th transition in a competitive city. Posts prove it every year at all the k-8.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: K-8. Always for those who can't get into k-12. You can always leave your k-12 but you're stuck in 8-9th transition in a competitive city. Posts prove it every year at all the k-8.

What a sad person you are.

Also, you realize this site covers more than DC itself, so we don’t all only consider schools in a “competitive city.”