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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want a more open and accepting atmosphere Eaton may be slightly better. Stoddert and Key are solid academically and more or less equivalent. Key has a powerful PTO that influences decision making at the school, whereas Stoddert's PTO is mainly just fundraising. Stodderts aftercare is cheaper i think. Both Stoddert and Key aftercare can be hard to get into. Stodderts aftercare is mainly outdoors even when it is close to freezing because they only have access to the cafeteria rather than the gym, which hosts a DPR program. I assume key has access to its gym. I love an outdoors program and it is well done, but a few parents wants their kids inside during winter. Between those two consider which is better for your commute as well. The vast majority of Stoddert graduates attend Hardy. I believe the number is a little less at Key with more parents switching to privates  but am not sure. [/quote]

At Key - out of a class of 75 kids from kindergarten - only 10 of those kids were at Hardy in last year's 6th grade. Vast majority are gone by 4th, and by then the non-private (more of the kids of color and lower-income) kids remain and are then in trailers for 4th and 5th. And the Principal at Key is completely out of touch.[/quote]

I have read this sort of comment over and over in several past threads. Somehow I think it speaks of the individual experience of a disgruntled parent.

With the pandemic and protracted DC school closures I am not sure the situation described is the norm.

Signed: A prospective IB Key Parent hoping all will be fine at the school through 5th grade[/quote]

We look forward to welcoming you to Key! Many of us walk/bike/scooter there -- pp who mentioned "chaos" was maybe referring to the dropoff queue? which in our family's experience is not chaotic, just a line of cars you wait in.

Principal mishandled a racist incident a few years back and memories are long. Enrollment schoolwide is down after the pandemic; lots of families went private rather than endure a virtual 2020-2021 school year. But of course school is back in person now. Yes, there are trailers in 4th/5th grade. (See the conversation about Foxhall Elementary for various perspectives on how onerous they are.) Aftercare is still too hard to get into. PTA is an absolute force.

You do see an appreciable drop in enrollment from 3rd grade to 4th (entrance year at many privates) and a slightly smaller one from 4th to 5th (when families who aren't interested in Hardy lottery into Basis/Latin)  but the graduating cohort in 5th grade is still substantially the group that started together in preK. And we're generally a satisfied bunch.

See you on the blacktop,
Family with one Key alum (headed to Hardy) and another still at Key [/quote]

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