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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]

Those private schools listed only go through 8th grade...

FWIW my kids go to private school now because we tried APS and found that there was too great a focus on testing and too little on social/emotional learning. We also wanted more recess, more PE, art, music and smaller class sizes that the public schools can't offer us. The overcrowding is WAY out of control.

Our school is JK-8. Not sure what we will do for high school. We have some time though.

We are zoned for Wakefiekd. Our kids will either go there or they'll stay in private school. [/quote]

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