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[quote=Anonymous]At a high level, you have mentioned many of the major differences. In making the rounds on the informational sessions, our son remarked that the two schools are very very similar.  As parents, our sense is that the faculty and the student peer groups may have some differences. The schools both attract very bright students.  In broad generalizations, St. Albans actively draws from higher social-economic and educational backgrounds of parents with more elite careers as senior government and/or corporate leaders.  While St. Anselms has students from those demographics, it does not take that much into account in their admissions. Rather, from its founding by the monks who were professors teaching at Catholic University, they started a high school (and later a middle school) that affirmatively seeks to attract and serve "bright boys who might not otherwise have the opportunity for a gifted education".  Before this past year, they tested the boys using the two "gifted" standardized tests --OLSAT and SCAT--and those tests were performed at and paid for by the school. That is core to their mission. The result is you have students from a more diverse socio-economic communities than other DC elite privates, but you also have a kind of humility and simplicity that, for us, is unusual and attractive.  The facilities are also qualitatively different in that St. Albans has very well-resourced and beautiful facilities.  St. Anselms is still using its building built in the 1940s and 1950s with few modern upgrades, as their investment is less in the facilities and more in the educational and athletic/arts resources and in need-based scholarships.  St. Albans (4-12) is larger than St. Anselms (6-12) by more than 2x, so St. Albans and that also impacts the culture and experience of the students.  Hope that's helpful.[/quote]

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