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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some conservative schools: Stone Ridge; Prep, Bullis (very conservative; HOS is an Australian Trump), Visitation

Liberal: GDS (very), Potomac, SSASA, Holton, Burke, Maret

Center: Sidwell (more left), NCS, St. Albans, Landon

What do others think?[/quote]

I can’t speak to the Catholic schools, but we’ve had children at many of the other schools on this list and have close friends at some others.  In our experience, all of the high-end DC-area privates fall on a similar spectrum politically, which runs basically from far left to center left.  The difference is not where they fall on the political spectrum, in that they seem much of a muchness, but how overt and in-your-face the politics is and how hostile the environment is to non-liberals.  We do have a student at Bullis now and I think calling it a “conservative” school politically seems like a major stretch.  In general the parent body there is made up of the standard left to center-left DC parents you see at basically all of these schools, with a relatively higher proportion of what I would call “apolitical rich people,” as well as others focused basically strictly on athletics, at Bullis than at some other schools.  (In that, it seems similar to Landon.)  And of course you have the same 15-20% or so of closeted conservatives, which includes a smaller (but bigger than you think) fraction of Trump sympathizers, that you have basically everywhere. There are also a few token “professional” Republicans at all of these schools, who are generally given a pass on that inconvenient political fact as they are an important part of the town industry. [/quote]

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