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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d be curious to see the actual figures, but I think foreign diplomats are pretty negligible in numbers as far as DCPS goes, though again there may be a few schools (probably in upper NW) where they have a more meaningful presence.  (I’ve never once met a diplomatic family in my kids’ well-regraded Capitol Hill school, unless you count U.S. diplomats.)

Lots of diplomats live in the suburbs and/or send their kids to private schools.

In any case, in addition to tax revenue, I think the economy of DC benefits extraordinarily from having so many Embassies based here![/quote]

There are tons in the upper NW elementaries including the one my kids attend.  An embassy family will have success at the school and then all subsequent families will move to that neighborhood when they arrive in the US.  We see waves of kids---all the French will come for a few years and then all the Spaniards, etc.  
Some embassies have private school stipends for their employees but most do not (outside of the ambassador's kids).  We became very close friends with a two very high ranking foreign diplomat families (different European countries) and neither had any private school stipend and were actually living on a shoestring 
budget here in the US.  They had a large budget for official entertaining but very little in terms of day-to-day living expenses.  DC is expensive even for foreign diplomats. [/quote]

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