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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academics are equal to typical FCPS high schools (according to friend who had one grad from non-prestigious FCPS HS and one who was sent to BI to keep out of trouble.)

Friend also said DC never really felt like he fit in (although DC was popular) b/c the others had gone to Catholic grade schools and just had a longer history with Catholic friends/traditions.

Ultimately, you are paying for your kid to be around a certain group of peers and Catholic teachings.  That may be a plus, or it may not.[/quote]

I went there and my kid goes their - this is 1/2 true.

Honors/AP classes are on par with top public schools.  College prep classes are better than gen ed classes at a top public high school.  The classes are rigorous but not ridiculous (for comparison, I went to UVA after BI and found UVA to be fairly easy).  They make you work for an A - no grade inflation and chances for a re-do like most area public schools.

The coming from a Catholic school things matter for about 2 weeks.  All those cliques break up and reform.  It was true 20 years ago when I went there and it is true now. Very few kids remain good friends with more than 1-2 kids from their feeder school.

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