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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]St Albans trounces everyone by a mile.

5/71. [/quote]

Of course STA has the highest NMSF/senior ratio by a mile. It’s a boys school.

NMSFs are disproportionately boys, and that’s especially true in DC, where the cut score for NMSF is sky high: roughly 2/3 of the DC winners this year (and last year, when the cut score was just as high) are boys.

If you add the NCS and STA numbers together, you get 9/141, which is still the best in town but much more in line with the ratios at the gender-balanced Sidwell and the disproportionately-female Walls. [/quote]

“If you add the NCS and STA numbers together, you get 9/141, which is still the best in town…”

No, that’s not better than Sidwell’s 8/125. [/quote]

Correct, they’re essentially tied. (And LOL at me making an arithmetic error in this context!)[/quote]

NCS only has 2…so that’s 7/141…which is worse than 8/125.  
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Why are you combing STA and NCS?  They're completely different schools with completely different curriculums--they just share land on the Cathedral Close.

I don't understand.  The schools have entirely different curriculums.  [/quote]

Nonsense. NCS and STA don’t “just share land on the Cathedral Close.” They are brother/sister schools with a long history.

NCS and STA also have a formal coordinate program. “This allows students to take advantage of each school's outstanding teachers, state-of-the-art facilities, and diversity and depth of programs. And it significantly expands the academic and extracurricular options available to each young woman and man on the Close.”

Further, “coordinate opportunities increase when NCS [and St. Albans] students enter the Upper School. Nearly all art activities and classes are coordinate. English classes for grades 11 and 12 are coed, as are many elective classes.”[/quote]

You're reading from the website.  I have kids at the schools.  There are no coed classes through 10th grade except for art.  So kids taking the PSAT in Oct of 11th have not taken more than a month of any coed classes except for maybe photography or painting.

Then there are coed English classes beginning in 11th but enrollment in the opposite school's classes are extremely limited---4 kids max from the opposite school.  My daughter is a junior and she and her friends were not able to get a STA class this year.  Believe me, they tried.  
They'll be seniors before they take a STA academic class--if ever. 
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Well, NCS should stop lying on its website. They’re making it seem like students will be able to have a fairly integrated, coed US experience. If that’s not the case, then parents should be aware. [/quote]

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