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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your affluent kid with educated parents will do equally well in both.[/quote]

This. Except in the very worst of schools, kids who come from homes where the parents value education will do fine anywhere. There is no need to be at the very "best" or highest ranked school to get a good education. 
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The $1.5-3 million+ neighborhoods in 22201 all go to W-L.  Nobody does private.[/quote]

Many do send to W-L but there are a solid amount at privates too. Holy Trinity, St. Patrick's, GDS, Burgundy, etc. [/quote]

But is that to avoid W-L, or because they would have done private either way? For what they're paying for private, they probably could have afforded the increased mortgage to get into Yorktown if they really felt Yorktown was superior, so the fact that some people living there send their kids to private doesn't really tell us anything.[/quote]

We were deciding between private vs. public and W-L vs. Yorktown was not a factor in our decision at all.  The advantages of private (smaller classes, less testing, etc.) were not available anywhere in APS.  The only thing that comes to mind that might differentiate Yorktown vs. W-L is that some families might seek out IB.  The houses we looked at in W-L were no less expensive.

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