Charlottesville VA Private Schools
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I have a first grader enrolled in DCPS, but I doubt DCPS will be 5 days a week for year(s), so we are evaluating other options. We just bought a farm outside of Charlottesville. I understand that St Anne’s Belfield is the most desirable private, but that it will be difficult to gain entry there at this late date because many families are doing the same thing as us.
Anyone have insight into other Albemarle Country privates? We prefer a traditional - ideally secular-ish - curriculum and are not particularly price sensitive. I know that Western Albemarle is the best public school, but it seems that public schools in ‘blue’ areas don’t intend to open. |
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The Miller school
Covenant school Tandem friends Peabody Charlottesville Catholic I know you said secular but I wanted to give you more options and all of the schools are seeing a huge uptick in applications. There are also several much smaller privates in the area. The above list are the larger ones. The school board is voting soon about re-opening. Elementary would go back 4 days a week and middle-Hugh school would go 2 days a week. Western Alb public schools are hugely overcrowded due to a boom of new housing and no plan for new schools. We’re in the north feeder pattern and our schools are seeing the same. Again there is no active conversation about new schools. Feel free to ask me more questions if you have them. |
Anonymous
Thank you! You are so lucky to live there. It is heavenly. Would you mind saying a little bit about why STAB seems so much more popular than Miller? I don’t think I understand what differentiates them. Is Tandem super hippy-dippy? I love my kale, but this year has exhausted my patience with the super woke, virtue signaling crowd. |
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Why is it heavenly? Sincerely curious. Maybe we should move! |
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The Convenant School was founded post-Brown v. Board so that white parents wouldn't have to send their children to integrated schools. FYI.
I love Charlottesville. I did my doctorate there and really enjoyed my time at UVA. It's become much, much more crowded and populous since I left, and traffic is worse. But, it's still charming. |
Anonymous
What the PP writes about Covenant can be said about most privates in our area. Those who were founded earlier pivoted to that mission in admissions in the civil rights era. A lot has changed since then. I know one teacher at Covenant and this person is a phenomenal educator. They do support their faculty's professional development and are not overly religious. Academics do matter there. |
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Which DC private schools were actually founded after Brown because of that decision? Curious. Most of the well-known private schools in this area were founded well before Brown and then integrated just before or after the decision came out. (GDS would be the exception among the well-known private schools in the DC area.) |
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| Are the public high schools good in Charlottesville? |
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| Here they come. RIP, C’ville. |
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I'm 19:43, the original PP.
STAB is "in town" vs. Miller which is in Crozet, meaning STAB is right near Boars Head Club, Farmington CC, and the larger properties. Both have day and boarding. To b frank there is snob appeal, just like any place. I only see Hippy Dippy during Lockin Fest when a people come from out of town and that has little to no impact on us because the festival is several miles down 29 Manage your expectations. We moved here a decade + ago and even in this time it's changed radically, yet the local governments won't change (roads, schools, planning areas, etc) We'll say here. we both went to college here lived in N. Virginia for a long time, and got an opportunity to move here a while ago. It's not the same, not that anyplace is. But it wants to grow and yet is backwards in its ability to deal with growth. Things will brighten post pandemic, but if you want more than schools to be open it's not the right time, because the things we love, including SNP, shut down. Happy to answer more if you'd like. |
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| I graduated from one of the private schools mentioned and I always thought Miller was for kids with learning disabilities but maybe I was always misinformed on that. I have also heard good things about Charlottesville Day School but no first hand knowledge |
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| we have close friends that have one STAB grad and one in HS, parents are from this area. It’s a great school and chatting with them and their kids extensively about it, it seems STAB is similar to the Cathedral schools (also likely because I have a child in a Cathedral school), other than it is co-ed. They have had a great experience there. |
Anonymous
I’m op. It’s heavenly because it’s gorgeous. People are more chill. There is amazing food everywhere (better food scene) and everything you could want in dc culturally on a mini-scale. A winery around every corner. An educated population that has a more artistic bent than miserable dc lawyers. More f* you money there than in dc (per capita), which is interesting. I am itching to make it a first home rather than a second home . . . DCPS’s utter failure may make push us into Charlottesville’s arms. |
Anonymous
Unless my memory is failing, Covenant was founded well after Brown and that was not the major reason. |