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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Landon has a declining enrollment? Can you provide some facts to support this?

I believe the school just completed a $45 million capital campaign so I assume the finances should be solid. I could be wrong.

The school has always recruited for sports - that is nothing new.

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I didn't write the post about the declining enrollment but I have heard it is accurate at least for the middle school.  The school's overall finances are fine.  All schools pay attention to enrollment and make changes to their marketing/admissions outreach if they think they need to -- that is the norm.  There's an ebb and a flow to these things, and Landon has to deal with the fairly strong alternative of Montgomery County.[/quote]

Great point about the Montgomery County alternative. To me this is the single most remarkable thing about Landon – they sit right in the middle of the strongest public school district in the country and still manage to attract students.  It’s not like schools in the District where parents frantically look for any way possible to escape a nightmarish public school system.  Moreover, it seems to me that for nearly EVERY boy at Landon, was the FIRST choice.  That’s not to say that everyone likes Landon – this thread and many others are enough to tell you that there are plenty of Landon haters out there.  But it is remarkable to me that in face of extremely attractive no-cost options, attractive same cost options and viable lower cost options – families are choosing Landon year after year.[/quote]

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