Diplomatic students in DCPS

[Anonymous]

Do diplomatic families pay DC taxes while they live here? There are loads of diplomatic students in DCPS, which is why I'm wondering how that works.

[Anonymous]

Schools are funded largely through property taxes. Diplomats generally live in rented housing, and their landlords pay property taxes with the rent they receive from the diplomats, just like landlords of other students who pay rent pay taxes.

So, yes.

[Anonymous]

Diplomatic families get a break on certain taxes, but are usually people of means, and contribute to the local economy. As PP said, they usually rent.

Stop looking for something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do diplomatic families pay DC taxes while they live here? There are loads of diplomatic students in DCPS, which is why I'm wondering how that works.

Also, there are no children of diplomats at the vast majority of DC schools. It really isn't a big part of the whole district's public school system, though some schools may have some.

I don't know if they pay income taxes but they do pay sales tax on whatever they buy so that's some contribution, in addition to any property taxes on where they live.

[Anonymous]

I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence. (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here!

[Anonymous]

As long as you are a resident, you get school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence. (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here!

Diplomat kids are a regular presence at Murch, Mann, and Janney. Can’t speak to any others

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as you are a resident, you get school.

Yep. That includes children of diplomats, children whose parents are undocumented, and exchange students who live with a host family in DC for one year. We have a universal public school system like every other jurisdiction in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence. (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here!

Diplomat kids are a regular presence at Murch, Mann, and Janney. Can’t speak to any others

Saw one at our EOTP neighbourhood school this week (Wilson feeder).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence. (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here!

Diplomat kids are a regular presence at Murch, Mann, and Janney. Can’t speak to any others

Saw one at our EOTP neighbourhood school this week (Wilson feeder).

PP. To clarify, a car w/diplomat plates.

[Anonymous]

Most of them probably get sponsored to go to WIS and the like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence. (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here!

Diplomat kids are a regular presence at Murch, Mann, and Janney. Can’t speak to any others

Regular yes, but not numerous by any measure! May I point out that your "safe" areas of DC are just where you'll see the most diplomats. They're not slumming it elsewhere in the city, that's for sure!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence. (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here!

There are tons in the upper NW elementaries including the one my kids attend. An embassy family will have success at the school and then all subsequent families will move to that neighborhood when they arrive in the US. We see waves of kids---all the French will come for a few years and then all the Spaniards, etc.
Some embassies have private school stipends for their employees but most do not (outside of the ambassador's kids). We became very close friends with a two very high ranking foreign diplomat families (different European countries) and neither had any private school stipend and were actually living on a shoestring
budget here in the US. They had a large budget for official entertaining but very little in terms of day-to-day living expenses. DC is expensive even for foreign diplomats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence. (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here!

Diplomat kids are a regular presence at Murch, Mann, and Janney. Can’t speak to any others

I'd add Key and especially Stoddert to that list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do diplomatic families pay DC taxes while they live here? There are loads of diplomatic students in DCPS, which is why I'm wondering how that works.

You have to be a DC resident. That doesn't necessarily require paying income taxes in DC.