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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they increasingly have students from places other than Alexandria. The faculty is excellent, and I think folks from other communities talk about the quality of instruction (at least that was true for us — people we knew talked about the teachers’ being very strong. So we looked there) [/quote]

Wrong. It is one of the most homogenous populations for a private school.  Super high population comes from Old Town or Belle Haven.  Most of the kids and parents have known each other and socialized for years.  If you are not one of them, you are pretty much ostracized.[/quote]

Nope.  Not even close but nice try.  [/quote]

Truth hurts.  No other IAC school draws primarily from such a small and homogenous area.  Kids who try to break in and aren't part of that group typically have bad experiences.  The school has little geographic, racial and economic diversity.[/quote]

There is someone posts about SSSAS who is really focused on the "Belle Haven" crowd, and this is actually kind of a "tell" because it's just not possible for the "Belle Haven" crowd to dominate the school. Belle Haven is a very small neighborhood, and there are just a limited number of kids that could be from the neighborhood. In 2018-19 there were 1,133 kids at SSSAS.  A lot of the kids in the neighborhood go to private school, but there's a big chunk that go to St. Mary's or ACDS (and then Catholic Schools in DC for high school, usually), and more than a few go to DC private schools.  In my DC's year, there were probably fewer than 10 kids ([u]maybe[/u] a dozen?) in Belle Haven that went to SSSAS, and those were spread from kindergarten to high school. Old Town is bigger, but there are a relatively small % of people in Old Town with school age kids, and folks in the SE quadrant like Lyles-Crouch.  I only knew a handful of SSSAS families in Old Town.  There were a few more in Potomac Greens, and then more yet in Del Ray and Beverly Hills.  However, as many of my DC's friends came from Arlington, Fairfax and Prince George's County as Alexandria.   They run buses to Arlington, DC, and Fairfax, Prince George's and Prince William counties, as well as the Metro stop. The buses are full at pickup, so somebody is riding those buses.

I think there are legitimate criticisms of the school, but this isn't one of them. [/quote]

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