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[quote=Anonymous]In general, the major determinants of children's performance in school are their parents' income and educational levels.  Once you control for those things, the benefits of private school, on average, look pretty small, according to the studies I've read.

Many of the public school districts in this area are among the best in the nation.  Most kids will be fine there.  Even in DC, kids at Wilson, Banneker, and SWW get 5's on AP tests and head off to Ivy League schools.  (Many of those kids are, like the kids from Sidwell, come from double graduate degree families).

If your kid is a math/science superstar, I would say definitely go public.  Kids at the privates are lawyer's kids (that's who can afford 30k per kids per year) and they don't tend to push math and science as much.  i've interviewed kids at the Big 3, and I am always shocked that their parents are paying for them to have fewer research opportunities than the average public school kid in MoCo.

If you have a kids who need a smaller class size or who is an average student, the individual attention at a private may be the way to go.[/quote]

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