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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably because of the demographics. It is primarily an African American/Latino school. It 
is also all the way out in PG. 
I wonder if they compete more with the Good Counsel crowd because of location.[/quote]

It’s not “all the way out” in PG. it is no more than 10-12 minutes from the DC border and no where near as far out as Good Counsel.

I imagine most parents aren’t choosing between those two schools as they are more than an hour apart during rush hour.[/quote]

Agree. The location is not "all the way out" in PG. It's pretty accessible from D.C. but it does pull from a different geographic area than a lot of the Catholic schools discussed here. For example, I'd guess there are more Anne Arundel/Annapolis families that choose DeMatha that probably aren't considering GC, SJC, Gonzaga, etc. and are maybe deciding between Spalding and DeMatha, for example. Likewise, many families feeding in from parts of eastern Montgomery County are probably equidistant from GC and DeMatha and choosing  between those two. In D.C., I bet it boils down to SJC, Gonzaga or DeMatha for boys.

This is just a guess, but I'd imagine DeMatha has fewer students coming from Northern Virginia than, say, Gonzaga, due to location. And, given the abundance of other private options (and better public schools than D.C. and PG generally), probably fewer students coming from the very most affluent parts of MoCo, but plenty of kids coming from various parts of MoCo otherwise.[/quote]

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