Churchill students

[Anonymous]

We're looking at houses in the Potomac area and while I can see that the test scores and Great Schools info suggest Churchill is a great school academically, all the info here is about how the students are all rich and materialistic. Can anyone with firsthand experience of the school culture comment on how kids who come from more laid back families manage at Churchill? It's a big school so I would hope that there are all types of kids and surely not everyone fits the stereotype? We like the bigger lots of Potomac, but not sure it's a great fit culturally.

[Anonymous]

We live in the Churchill cluster. My son attended mcps through middle school, but he went to private high school. However he has maintained friendships with many "laid back" kids who who went to Churchill. Yes, there are kids who come from very materialistic families whose priorities are off. However, in our immediate neighborhood, which is not one of the extremely upscale areas, there are plenty of laid back people. Choosing your neighborhood might be an important thing to consider...look at the houses under $1M or at the $1M mark...stay away from the $2M home neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're looking at houses in the Potomac area and while I can see that the test scores and Great Schools info suggest Churchill is a great school academically, all the info here is about how the students are all rich and materialistic. Can anyone with firsthand experience of the school culture comment on how kids who come from more laid back families manage at Churchill? It's a big school so I would hope that there are all types of kids and surely not everyone fits the stereotype? We like the bigger lots of Potomac, but not sure it's a great fit culturally.

Yes, there are all types of students in Churchill HS. Most of people who live in houses on bigger lots In Potomac send their kids to private schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking at houses in the Potomac area and while I can see that the test scores and Great Schools info suggest Churchill is a great school academically, all the info here is about how the students are all rich and materialistic. Can anyone with firsthand experience of the school culture comment on how kids who come from more laid back families manage at Churchill? It's a big school so I would hope that there are all types of kids and surely not everyone fits the stereotype? We like the bigger lots of Potomac, but not sure it's a great fit culturally.

Yes, there are all types of students in Churchill HS. Most of people who live in houses on bigger lots In Potomac send their kids to private schools.

I posted earlier. There are lots of kids who live in $2M plus homes who attend public schools. These are families that don't prioritize education in their families and prefer to spend on cars, homes, vacations, etc. We live in a smaller home (under $1M) with a half acre lot...so not tiny. Not sure how big a lot the OP is looking for, but there are plenty of more modest homes on larger lots. They might be differentiating Potomac from places like Bethesda and Chevy Chase, which have very small lots...sometimes with no back yards.

[Anonymous]

There are two Churchill high school students in my cul de sac alone. Really great kids - I hope my own kids (currently non school aged) grown up to be similar. Most houses in my neighborhood are in the 700s-800s so I would not say people are wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are two Churchill high school students in my cul de sac alone. Really great kids - I hope my own kids (currently non school aged) grown up to be similar. Most houses in my neighborhood are in the 700s-800s so I would not say people are wealthy.

OP ... you kids will go to school with kids that think living in a $800K house is not wealthy... just so you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are two Churchill high school students in my cul de sac alone. Really great kids - I hope my own kids (currently non school aged) grown up to be similar. Most houses in my neighborhood are in the 700s-800s so I would not say people are wealthy.

OP ... you kids will go to school with kids that think living in a $800K house is not wealthy... just so you know.

Yeah, I too impressed by the number of "stay in the <$1 million neighborhoods, where the regular folks live" posts.

[Anonymous]

but that 800K house is very comparable to a 500K house in other dc suburbs or a 200K house in middle America.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are two Churchill high school students in my cul de sac alone. Really great kids - I hope my own kids (currently non school aged) grown up to be similar. Most houses in my neighborhood are in the 700s-800s so I would not say people are wealthy.

OP ... you kids will go to school with kids that think living in a $800K house is not wealthy... just so you know.

You must not be in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're looking at houses in the Potomac area and while I can see that the test scores and Great Schools info suggest Churchill is a great school academically, all the info here is about how the students are all rich and materialistic. Can anyone with firsthand experience of the school culture comment on how kids who come from more laid back families manage at Churchill? It's a big school so I would hope that there are all types of kids and surely not everyone fits the stereotype? We like the bigger lots of Potomac, but not sure it's a great fit culturally.

They don't, actually. They suggest that there are a lot of rich kids and few poor kids at Churchill - which, in fact, is true. They don't mean the teachers are better, or the facilities, or the administration, or the curriculum, or any of the things that would make a school a great school academically.

[Anonymous]

Rest assured the real rich kids are not in public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking at houses in the Potomac area and while I can see that the test scores and Great Schools info suggest Churchill is a great school academically, all the info here is about how the students are all rich and materialistic. Can anyone with firsthand experience of the school culture comment on how kids who come from more laid back families manage at Churchill? It's a big school so I would hope that there are all types of kids and surely not everyone fits the stereotype? We like the bigger lots of Potomac, but not sure it's a great fit culturally.

Yes, there are all types of students in Churchill HS. Most of people who live in houses on bigger lots In Potomac send their kids to private schools.

I posted earlier. There are lots of kids who live in $2M plus homes who attend public schools. These are families that don't prioritize education in their families and prefer to spend on cars, homes, vacations, etc. We live in a smaller home (under $1M) with a half acre lot...so not tiny. Not sure how big a lot the OP is looking for, but there are plenty of more modest homes on larger lots. They might be differentiating Potomac from places like Bethesda and Chevy Chase, which have very small lots...sometimes with no back yards.

Or they are happy enough with the education their kids are getting and do not feel the need to spend on private school...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:but that 800K house is very comparable to a 500K house in other dc suburbs or a 200K house in middle America.

This is why people say "don't send your kids to Churchill" and I am not really going to be able to explain it to you. But you just don't get it if you think living in a $800K house is the same as a $500K house in Gaithersburg or a $200K house in Tulsa Oklahoma.

... and then you pass that same attitude and worse to your children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are two Churchill high school students in my cul de sac alone. Really great kids - I hope my own kids (currently non school aged) grown up to be similar. Most houses in my neighborhood are in the 700s-800s so I would not say people are wealthy.

OP ... you kids will go to school with kids that think living in a $800K house is not wealthy... just so you know.

You must not be in DC.

Yes I am... and you will never get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:but that 800K house is very comparable to a 500K house in other dc suburbs or a 200K house in middle America.

"I'm not wealthy; I know this because there are lots of people who have even more money than I" Episode 5,226,338 on DCUM.