Best Privates in Annapolis

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Anonymous wrote:What is happening with the administration at St Mary’s?

Principle just quit. New president should be the one leaving.

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Anonymous wrote:What is happening with the administration at St Mary’s?

Principle just quit. New president should be the one leaving.

New president has been a total disaster for the school. First time as being head of school and it shows. He is more like a puppet for his secretary who really runs the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Best bet is to drive to Baltimore or DC for a good education.

Do many students attend Baltimore or DC privates? I imagine the commute is rough.

No. Definitely not. I know kids at all the schools that have been mentioned, and only know one kid who commutes to DC, and that kid is like 4th generation or something at Gonzaga.
That poster is just proving that you should never listen to DCUM on anything related to Annapolis or Anne Arundel County

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Anonymous wrote:What is happening with the administration at St Mary’s?

Principle just quit. New president should be the one leaving.

Sounds like I'm my kid ended up deciding on Spalding and not St Marys!

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Anonymous wrote:What is happening with the administration at St Mary’s?

Principle just quit. New president should be the one leaving.

Sounds like I'm my kid ended up deciding on Spalding and not St Marys!

DS decided on Spalding also his choice after 3 years in the lower school at St. Mary’s. The culture can be hard to deal with if your not in the IN crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:What is happening with the administration at St Mary’s?

Principle just quit. New president should be the one leaving.

Athletic Director is leaving now. Another blow to st Mary’s

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Anonymous wrote:Best bet is to drive to Baltimore or DC for a good education.

Do many students attend Baltimore or DC privates? I imagine the commute is rough.

No. Definitely not. I know kids at all the schools that have been mentioned, and only know one kid who commutes to DC, and that kid is like 4th generation or something at Gonzaga.
That poster is just proving that you should never listen to DCUM on anything related to Annapolis or Anne Arundel County

Funny we live in Annapolis and know plenty of kids at DC privates and the northern Baltimore privates.

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Anonymous wrote:Best bet is to drive to Baltimore or DC for a good education.

Do many students attend Baltimore or DC privates? I imagine the commute is rough.

No. Definitely not. I know kids at all the schools that have been mentioned, and only know one kid who commutes to DC, and that kid is like 4th generation or something at Gonzaga.
That poster is just proving that you should never listen to DCUM on anything related to Annapolis or Anne Arundel County

Funny we live in Annapolis and know plenty of kids at DC privates and the northern Baltimore privates.

Can't imagine spending over two hours commuting each day could be a benefit for a child's education, but whatever works for those families, I guess!

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Many of the Baltimore schools have routes from Annapolis. I wax surprised but several schools have buses to the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Independent: Key School - It’s close to Annapolis proper. Indian Creek also is good, it’s a little farther out though. Severn is okay, but is going to be about 20 min from Annapolis.

Catholic - St. Mary’s - downtown

Key has issues do a google search.
Indian creek poor leadership it’s all about nepotism there with teachers and administrators.
St. Anne’s lots of turn over with teachers. Poor leadership.

Best bet is Severn or St Mary’s.

Key is in great shape. What are you talking about, the 1970s sex scanda that they have done a ton to address openly and fairly?

I was thinking the same thing. What recent issues has the Key School had? When I think of Annapolis private schools, I think of Key.

One recent example thing was a teacher that lived down the street selling info to Russia.

Honestly for what you pay there facilities are awful.

Come on - how is the idiotic teacher and her husband selling sub secrets anything that Key can control?? (not Russia, some S American country)

They could control it by paying fair salaries. When I moved to the area with 10 years of teaching experience, a master's degree plus 20 credits and certification in multiple content areas, I was offered a position at Key and was shocked at the number. Basically, they offered me a first-year teacher's salary. Even after they budged a little, their offer was still $20K less than the next offer I got from another private in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the area and Severn was regarded as the best. My general impression was that Indian Creek was the kids that couldn’t get into Severn.

This is so not true. Severn School isn't a good fit for everyone and it barely has a brown face in the school. That tells me all I need to know about Severn.

I'm not sure what Indian Creek School USED to be. But from what I've seen and experienced in 2023, it's excellent.

That might have been true once upon a time, but Severn currently has a large, well supported black population.

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This is so not true. Severn School isn't a good fit for everyone and it barely has a brown face in the school. That tells me all I need to know about Severn.

Barely a brown face in the school?! I work there and my impression (without looking at stats) is that the upper school student body is at least 20% African American.

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Gilman runs a bus from Annapolis. Other Annapolis boys at Landon. It’s a long commute but nice to live by the water with a dock.

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This is so not true. Severn School isn't a good fit for everyone and it barely has a brown face in the school. That tells me all I need to know about Severn.

Barely a brown face in the school?! I work there and my impression (without looking at stats) is that the upper school student body is at least 20% African American.

Acknowledging that Niche isn't always accurate, this is what they say, and it feels right. There is absolutely no way at least 20% of the students are African American.

White 80.9%
Multiracial 9.1%
African American 7.8%
Asian 1.3%

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Anonymous wrote:Best bet is to drive to Baltimore or DC for a good education.

Do many students attend Baltimore or DC privates? I imagine the commute is rough.

No. Definitely not. I know kids at all the schools that have been mentioned, and only know one kid who commutes to DC, and that kid is like 4th generation or something at Gonzaga.
That poster is just proving that you should never listen to DCUM on anything related to Annapolis or Anne Arundel County

Funny we live in Annapolis and know plenty of kids at DC privates and the northern Baltimore privates.

Over the years I have met / known people who lived in the northern park of AA and commuted to the Baltimore privates, including from Pasadena waterfront to St. Pauls. But it is a long and tiring commute. I don't doubt people do it but it's draining after a while and I can't imagine that many people do it. A few, sure, but come on, commuting from Annapolis to the DC privates like St. Albans or Sidwell is even worse. Might as well just go to boarding school.