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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid goes to sacred heart in mt pleasant. We’ve only been there for 1 year but it’s great. It’s Spanish immersion. St Anthony in Brookland is also a nice school. Both are cheap as they are subsidized by the archdiocese. [/quote]

Thanks.  My kids are Pre-K and have a small Spanish vocabulary and some counting but nothing close to conversational or fluent.  Does that matter for admissions?[/quote]

No, that would be totally fine. The first few grades are completely in Spanish but then the school switches to bilingual after 1st grade maybe? Check the website but I think they stop taking kids without any Spanish background after 1st grade. It’s a really nice small school and very affordable. [/quote]

Thanks.  Sounds like you are happy with the experience so far.  Any further observations or descriptions of your experience would be most welcome.  Does Sacred Heart have a reputation as a feeder school for any certain group of high schools?[/quote]

I’m not sure as we are many years from high school (we are in ECE still) but all of their 8th graders were accepted into Catholic HS (same goes for St Anthony) although not all attended Catholic HS. They prep the kids for the high school admissions test. I think if you’ve gone all the way through 8th grade at a Catholic school, the high schools look upon that favorably.

I am somewhat concerned whether the school is too small (there’s just one class per grade) but have decided to worry about that later as my kid gets older. I just wonder if opportunities both academic and social will be too limited. It’s very diverse, as is St Anthony, which I love. There are no behavioral issues that I’ve observed with the older kids, which is a huge concern for me with DCPS schools. The middle schoolers just seem like sweet kids. The principal is new this year but seems good. The PTA is active and energized.

We were raised Catholic but don’t practice. My kid is definitely getting a lot of religious education so you need to be comfortable with that if you’re like me.

You can reach out for a tour. Same goes for St Anthony. The principal there is a good guy.  Both schools are just nice modest urban Catholic K-8s. We would have been happy at St Anthony too I’m pretty sure but wanted Spanish. [/quote]

Correction: both sacred heart and st Anthony are pk3-8, not k-8. [/quote]

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