St. Stephens and St. Agnes, hard to get in???

[Anonymous]

SSSA seems like a wonderful school. Do you know if it is competitive? We are thinking of sending our daughter there for Kindergarten. Has anyone has a positive or negative experience there??

[Anonymous]

would it make it less appealing to you if it were not competitve? I have heard good and bad things about every single school out there. Pick a school YOU like and fits your family, and most importantly fits your child. Who cares if it is competitive. They are all competitive!! Even some of the puplic schools in Alexandria are that way. Lowels crouch, Douglas McCarther. Try getting your child a spot in those elem. schools. Easier to get into private unless you live in those districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:would it make it less appealing to you if it were not competitve? I have heard good and bad things about every single school out there. Pick a school YOU like and fits your family, and most importantly fits your child. Who cares if it is competitive. They are all competitive!! Even some of the puplic schools in Alexandria are that way. Lowels crouch, Douglas McCarther. Try getting your child a spot in those elem. schools. Easier to get into private unless you live in those districts.

Wow, what an unecessarily harsh response. I didn't get the sense that the OP thought SSSAS was more appealing if it had more competitive admissions. Maybe he or she was concerned that if the acceptance rates were so low, he or she would have to consider other alternatives more thoroughly.

Anyways, I am also considering SSSAS in a year or so, along with Lyles Crouch and Grace Episcopal. Though Capitol Hill Day School intrigues me (it's near my office). I've heard from neighbors that SSSAS is fairly difficult to get into the Pre-K because they have so few slots and lots of siblings since the school goes to grade 12. I'm a parishioner at Grace Episcopal and the general sense is that SSSAS is more elite, less diverse, but stronger academically than Grace. But Grace has a more community feel, as many of its students are also parishioners.

[Anonymous]

I heard that it is almost impossible to get a lottery spot at Lyles Crouch because there has been such an increase in the Lyles Crouch district residents sending their kids there -- any info on this?