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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably the most well known schools are:

Sierra Canyon (Kardashians/jenners/bronny)
Crossroads (so many celebs) 
Beverly Hills High School (same; shout out to West Beverly too :))
Andover 
Exeter 
Permian (Friday Night Lights) 
IMG Academy (sports factory across multiple sports) 
St. Vincent-St. Mary (lebron; because he didn’t play college this one has a higher profile)
Lower Merion (Kobe; same) 
Laguna Hills (Hills, Laguna, etc. this is fading but still a fairly broad demo)
Sidwell (Clintons/Obamas). Nothing else in DC is on this level of name ID. 
Not sure what from NYC breaks through — could see a case for Dalton, Spence, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant but none seem that famous to like an average person in the Midwest.

This is macabre but the most famous are probably actually the ones with major tragedies like Columbine and the like.

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Laguna Hills? Kardashians? Friday Night Lights? Lol! When is the last time you read a book? Only reality tv watchers know those schools or people.

Further more OP said DC schools. [/quote]

I think we're getting to the heart of this pointless conversation.

98 percent of people don't think about famous private schools. If you're in the 2 percent who do, you can probably be broadly split into three categories:

1. those who are close to major population areas who think about the traditional definition of education eliteness. These are the people who think of and definitely have heard of St. Albans, Sidwell, Madeira, Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Choate, Hotchkiss, Dalton, Chicago Latin, Lawrenceville, et al

2. those who watch a lot of TV and care about things like where the Kardashians send their kids, and I guess then you know about Laguna High School or whatever it is

3. people who follow sports closely, who are likely to know all kinds of batshit no-name highschools that play national sports schedules, and a handful of famous jock schools (St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, IMG Academy etc) and on that list are several notable DC area schools... If you're the kind of person who knows anything about where NBA players come from, you definitely know DeMatha... And, I had to look this up, but apparently, the school that has sent the most kids to the NBA is Oak Hill Academy, in Dulles. Love it or hate it, Gonzaga has moved onto that list of private schools that are well known by people who pay attention to sports highschool hotspots.

Either way, tldr, almost nobody knows of any highschools. In the select world of nerds/freaks and weirdos who do, DMV does okay.[/quote]

LOL Oak Hill Academy is south of Roanoke, 5.5 hours from DMV. Not the same as Oak Hill Christian. It grew in popularity after Kevin Durant attended for a year or two before coming back to MD. It's a similar school as IMG.[/quote]

Agreed, but categories 2 and 3 are far bigger than category 1. If you only followed this forum, you’d think it was the reverse. Since there’s no school in this area that fits into category 1, the most “famous” school in the DC area is still Dematha by a mile.[/quote]

Sidwell easily fits into category 1. As a matter of fact, the poster who created the categories above used Sidwell as an example. Sidwell was put on the national/international map by the Clintons and the Obamas (arguably category 2, but way better than the Kardashians). Sidwell basketball (and two NBA players —Bey and Hart) also ticks the category 3 box. One could convincingly argue that Sidwell is the only school on the East coast that checks all 3 “fame” boxes.

It appears that you struggle with reading comprehension and/or you attended Dematha. [/quote]

Comments like this are a great look for Sidwell.  :roll:

Please get over yourself.[/quote]

Instead of sitting around pining for the long gone obama days,  maybe Sidwell parents can push the school to actually update and maintain its buildings.  It's not yet dilapidated,  but it's certainly faded.  Sad that they've let it go.  Same with Maret (actually much worse for Maret).[/quote]

Lol—Sidwell’s current campus is fine, but allow me to introduce you to Sidwell’s new Upton Campus (for grades 9–12), which is scheduled to open fall 2026. The current US will be renovated and open to LS students in 2029. Click on the photos.

Link: https://shine.sidwell.edu/the-new-upper-school/

When this new and improved campus is unveiled, I wonder what Sidwell’s dedicated critics will say then. I know they’ll come up with something. [/quote]

LMAO. You've sent a link to a fundraising campaign that's been going on for about a decade.  They've got glitzier photos now of something that still doesn't exist,  but that doesn't mean it's real.  And with the costs of material,  construction labor, and interest going up like crazy,  my bet is it's never happening.

Maybe they can raise a little money by letting the nursing home patients back into that white elephant of a building that's been draining Sidwell's funds since 2015.

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Construction starts this summer (June). 
I can already tell that Sidwell’s haters are really going to be upset in 2026. Oh well…

It’s not easy being the best at so many things. [/quote]

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