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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are comparing pk-12s.  I'm talking more like St Patrick's, Sheridan. NPS.  Elementary type schools where your tuition doesn't subsidize more expensive middle and upper school facilities.  And compared to these K-8/6 schools, Beauvoir is A LOT more expensive.[/quote]

Those schools are not on Beauvoir's level. Beauvoir would be an A school and those would be B level schools.[/quote]

This attitude--not typical, fortunately--is what I don't like.[/quote]
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So you disagree that Beauvoir is held in higher regard than the other mentioned schools? You may not like that some are willing to be honest about it, but it doesn't make it not true.[/quote]

NP.  Definitely agree that Beauvoir is held in higher regard . . . by Beauvoir parents.[/quote]

This is true.  But it is also true that if you asked a random selection of DC parents to rank the schools (as opposed to parents of children at these schools), Beauvoir would be ranked higher than St. Patricks, Sheridan, or NPS.

Beauvoir has had a consistently high quality of education for a very long time.  I understand NPS in recent years has gotten stronger.  Have not heard the same about St. Patricks.  Sheridan's reputation is that it's a warm and supportive school with mediocre academics.

A school that has been around since 1933, consistently providing strong elementary education is simply going to have a stronger reputation than one that has been variable or has only recently begun to have a strong program.  It's like comparing Harvard to Middlebury.  In recent years, Middlebury has become a much stronger college.  However, it will take years (if ever) to compete with Harvard in reputation.

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