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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While a lot of Landon 9th graders are returning students, there is also a fair amount of expansion in that grade.  I can't say anything about GP, because we never considered a religious based school for our sons, but, other than the prevalence of Catholics at Prep, the student bodies seem quite similar, in good and not so good ways.[/quote]

On the surface both student bodies may seem similar. Afterall, both are all boys private high schools in the same general geography. But once you scratch that surface they are very dissimilar.

The Prep kids are predominately members of the rather large Catholic community that is indigenous to Montgomery County and Northwest DC. In many cases they have gone to the same small set of grammar schools, belong to the same set of parishes and have played on the same youth teams.

Rarely do families consider both Landon and Prep. Gonzaga is the alternative to Georgetown Prep.[/quote]

But aren't they fairly similar socioeconomically?[/quote]

To a degree. Both have groups from the same neighborhoods (although they stop associating with one another in 4th grade)

At least within Prep --- because that's all I know --- there's quite a range. There are a fair number of kids from NW DC. Bethesda and Potomac who are paying list price. But there are also a large number of families from places like Silver Spring and Kensington that are making huge sacrifices to send their boy or boys to Prep. I'm guessing that there is a higher percentage of this group at Prep than there is at Landon.

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"To a degree. Both have groups from the same neighborhoods (although they stop associating with one another in 4th grade)"

That is only true of the non-jocks and those who don't pursue girls at the private schools in MoCo.   The athletes have ongoing interaction on club teams and invitational tournaments and then socially once they can drive.  [/quote]

We have had three sons go through Prep and they were multi-sport athletes (Football, basketball, track and lacrosse). They and their large network of friends had no contact with the Landon kids except at parties hosted by Holton girls and at these the interaction was uncomfortable. Integrated club teams are pretty much over by the 9th grade.

There are isolated examples of friendships, but in general  an animosity overlays the relationship between the two schools. A Landon magazine article written in the last two years describes the situation.  In the 90's it was so bad a joint Landon-GP-St Albans Father's Club meeting was held at Landon to discuss how to decrease the weekend violence that was occuring. [/quote]

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