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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  We live in CC DC and our child goes to Lafayette, which we love.  On our block, there is a mix of private and public.  Off the top of my head, three families (incl. us) send their kids to Lafayette, two to Maret, and one to GDS.  The other families have pre-school, grown or no kids.

We are pretty close with the people on our street, probably closest to our next-door neighbors, one of whom is a childless couple and the other is one of the Maret families.  So, it's not like the folks who send their kids to private aren't neighborly.  Folks socialize on their front walks, at the park, Broad Branch market, on the Avenue, etc.  It's just a very friendly community.  But, of course, we are esp. friendly with the Lafayette families we see at drop-off, pick-up and various school functions.  Though everyone in the neighborhood seems to come out for Lafayette's fall festival and spring fair, regardless of whether they have kids there.

Incidentally, most of the folks we know in CC MD and Bethesda are an equal mix of private & public school, so I just think that people who can afford to live in these neighborhoods generally can afford to send their kids private and thus many choose to do so, for a variety of reasons, even if they live in a good school district.  The bad rap about DCPS generally, and the sense that you can't keep your kids in public school beyond Lafayette (a notion that is become less and less true every year, as Deal and Wilson improve and more families send their kids to DCPS all the way through) are I'm sure contributing factors.

Hope this helps.  It really is a fantastic neighborhood and I think it's nuts that so many send their kids to privates, but oh well.  They're missing out--Lafayette is really wonderful.

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