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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^PP where were you when I (white Cap Hill lady) asked for info on St Anthony's here last Spring?? :)

I couldn't find any info on St Anthonys so I wrote it off and did not even visit I'd say some of your factors are correct for us (play-based and commute) but I would also add the fact that it is, well, Catholic, and not being able to quite wrap my head around that (same reason we did not apply to St Peters.)

OP in answer to your question ... if PP keeps posting accolades about St Anthony's online, a few more white parents will go to the open house, a few more will enroll, and then eventually it will get a "critical mass" and become "highly regarded." [/quote]

I'm the pp who is at St. Anthony's. I wish I had seen your post last Spring lol. We aren't catholic but both my husband and I attended catholic school for a few years growing up so didn't mind sending our kids to one. We are Christian however so a faith based education is a definite positive for us. The school run's open houses monthly in the spring. The upperclassmen take you on tours of the school and then you meet the principal for a sessionew .in the library. He is awesome! He's been at the school for 17 years, 7 as principal. Last week he "won" Principal of the year for the archdiocese of Washington. It's not a large school. One class per grade I believe.  Each class up until 3rd grade has a teacher and an assistant. They have art twice a week, gym twice a week, Spanish twice a week for grades pk3 -2nd (30 mins) and then that jumps to four times a week from 3Rd grade onwards (45 mins). I'm looking at the pk3 daily schedule right now. They choose their work/center from 8am -9:45. The rest of the day is spent doing gym/spanish/library/art depending on the day, lunch, recess, crafts, naps and snack. Aftercare is really affordable. About $2k for the school year. The Catholic church subsidizes tuition for all which is one of the reason tuition is so reasonable. There's a super cute video on their home page about the school. It doesn't look like it's a video but if I recall correctly it has a picture of a teacher with 2-3 kids planting flowers. If you click on that it should play a little video. Come check us out in the Spring. It's been there the whole time. Many families from Maryland have been bringing their kids to the school this whole time while many dc folks dont realize what a warm and at the same time academically strong school it is.[/quote]

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