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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Greetings,
We are relocating this month to the area and will get several months of corporate housing through my partner's job (and eventually will officially relocate to a permanent home.) Job is downtown DC and we have options in  BCC, Whitman, and possibly Jackson Reed. All get top scores on Great Schools. We have a rising 9th-grade boy who is coming from a large public school in Florida.  Are each of these schools similar in culture & personality? They seem to be similar in size. Leaning towards BCC because of the convenience of the apartment (and extra bathroom) but open. Ideally, we would have done school visits with actual kids in the building.  If your kid attends any of the schools mentioned will you tell me something you like about the school? I don't need to hear the bad- all schools are not perfect but we would like to get the lay of the land.[/quote]

Without knowing more about the large public school in Florida - hard to compare.  Both MCPS schools are top schools for academics - offering a full menu of AP classes, (and IB in the case of BCC), interesting extracurriculars, competitive sports programs (although football is not the same thing as it is down South).  BCC has a brand new renovation that is pretty impressive and off-campus lunch.   Whitman is in the relative burbs - nowhere to go off-campus.  Wilson (Jackson-Reed) is well-known as the best DCPS high school - with good AP offerings and good sports programs.  It is more SES diverse than either Whitman or BCC.  BCC is more SES diverse than Whitman.   Although its dated - the book the Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins is about Whitman in the 1990s. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JJ9QMWI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Although there have been incremental changes - I think this still provides an interesting look at the type of school that Whitman (and to some extent BCC) is.

All of these schools had a much different philosophy regarding COVID than what has been reported for Florida schools - so there was virtual learning (and isolation) for alot longer - and there have been gaps in learning and emotional issues as a result - I think most have caught up/recovered as of last year, but you may see some of that as well.  [/quote]

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