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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m moving to PG county soon and am looking at private schools for my daughter who will be going to 5th grade next year. I’m looking for a private school because my daughter does better in smaller class settings due to mild inattentive ADHD. For this reason, we can’t do public PG schools because the class sizes are way too large. Here are the privates I’m looking at:

St Mary the Assumption in Upper Marlboro 
St Philip the Apostle in Camp Springs 
St Mary of Piscataway in Clinton 
St Matthias Academy
Excellence Christian
St Columba

What are your thoughts on these schools? Are there any others you recommend I should look at? We’re moving to Brandywine so I prefer a school somewhat close to southern PG with no more than a 30 minute commute.
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We are a St philip’s family. I am fairly pleased, despite the high turnover in leadership. I blame a good portion of that on ADW Schools office. They have done extremely well during covid and were one of the first in ADW to offer hybrid return.

My child is in 5th grade. We have been there since pre-K 3. Her classes have never had over 20 kids. The foundational academics without some of the extras is why we have stayed. STPA students are ready for high school. STPA students get in to the schools of their choice. They are taught studying skills and how to take tests.

That said, the school is aging. The technology needs an update and if extras are your requirement, then it’s not the school for you.

Also, based on your requirements, my experience had been that they have done well with different learning styles and disabilities. For those students, but also for the classmates. My child is more compassionate and embraces differences because of the experience she had with special needs children at school.

I have cousins at excellence. While it works for them, it wouldn’t for us. I prefer some level of diversity and excellence has none. If we were not at STPA st Mary’s assumption  would be our next choice.

I either looked at all of those, have friends who attended or talked to parents at soccer games over the years. Good luck I think Catholic education is great![/quote]

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