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bai
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| I have got a lot of information on the private and public schools from this forum. I am wondering if anyone knows of some "smaller" , "hidden" private schools, maybe not necessarily at the higher end, but still good enough. |
Anonymous
| Burgundy Farms, Sheridan, Primary Day are a few that come to mind. |
Anonymous
What location? |
Anonymous
| Burgandy Farms is in Alexandria VA and Primary Day is in Bethesda, MD. |
Anonymous
| harbor school |
Anonymous
| Grace Episcopal Day School is a "hidden" gem. |
Anonymous
| St. Francis in Potomac. |
Anonymous
| Green Acres is wonderful. |
Anonymous
| how about in dc? sheridan, st. pat's? others? |
rleedc
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| can someone give more details on grace episcopal day school? |
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| Grace Episcopal is in Silver Spring (Nursery-K) and Kensington (1-6). They're expanding to 7th in the fall, 8th in 2009 and plan to build a gym next year. I am not the PP who said it's a hidden gem but I do agree. They have taught my kids a lot. They have a very individualized approach to each kid, particularly in the early grades. In the upper grades they do a lot of integrated projects that really let them understand and experience the literature and history of an era. There's science fair, a nature trail, model UN, National History Day, accelerated math, great music and art programs, opportunities to submit to poetry and essay contests, extended research papers, etc. They have great diversity, and that doesn't just mean that there are lots of diverse families, it means that they value all sorts of diversity and teach the kids to treat everyone as uniquely valuable individuals. We have also found it to be a very friendly and warm parent community. |
Anonymous
| We did not have a good experience at all at Grace. Poorly run. |
Anonymous
| We have had a really bad experience at Grace. The school's management is awful and the academics are average at best. |
Anonymous
St. Patrick's admissions are extremely, extremely competitive. So I'm just not sure if it could be classified as a "hidden" gem? |
Anonymous
It probably is *hidden* from those who don't fall into the *usual suspect* category of applicants (parishioners, other episcopalians, those looking at it as a back up to beauvoir, neighborhood folks). I suspect that most of the applications at St. Patrick's come from these groups which are large in size. So it's probably competitive for applicants that fall into these categories, because they all look alike. Probably not so competitive if you don't fall into these categories. Not sure about the *gem* part. |