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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a LS daughter at Holton. Girls truly come from everywhere — she has girls in her grade from multiple DCPS/MCPS/Virginia public schools, BVR, Concord Hill, PDS, WIS, St. Pats, River, NPS — the list goes on.

Her grade grew significantly in 4th and they add a bunch of girls every year through 7th grade and then again at 9th.

Holton has been great for our daughter and there are a lot of BVR families there who didn’t want to do NCS. [/quote]

We are no longer at Holton, but we found that while families came from all over, in recent years more and more families are coming from close-in Bethesda. It made it hard to make friendships b/c most families were not willing to travel outside the Bethesda area. We had raised this concern years ago when were were accepted, and we were assured that families were from everywhere (as the prior post suggests) but we did not find this to be the case. We had 2 kids at Holton, and the same was true in both grades [/quote]

But that’s not a Holton specific problem. The vast majority of kids at any school live geographically close to the school because why would a parent want to drive across town to drop a kid off at school? We live in NW DC and I’m not sending me kid to Capitol Hill Day bc it makes no sense logistically.

I think Holton actually does better than most because 40% of girls take the bus. But in general, most people pick a school relatively close to their house for ease. [/quote]

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