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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not known for its academics so much.... therefore, the people who send their kids there are looking for something else that a private school may offer (i.e., social cachet).[/quote]

I don't get this.  If you live in the City of Alexandria, your choices are 1) trouble public schools, 2) Blessed Sacrement/Bishop Ireton, 3) SSSAS, 4) ACDS, 5) Burgundy, 6) Browne, 7) Grace, 8) a horrible commute for your child, or 9) to move.

If you aren't Catholic and feel uncomfortable sending your child to a Catholic school and you eliminate #1, #8, and #9, your choices are SSSAS, ACDS, Burgundy, Browne, or Grace.  Of these choices, only SSSAS offers high school.  So if you attend ACDS, Burgundy, Browne, or Grace, your child either needs to attend TC Williams (which has the second lowest SAT score in NoVa outside of the schools in Manassas), Bishop Ireton Catholic school, a school requiring a long commute (for the schools in DC, MD, or other private high schools in Nova), to move, or ironically SSSAS!

So if you are not Catholic, like living in Alexandria or have roots there, don't want to send your child to TC Williams, don't want to have your child to have a long commute, and don't want to move, SSSAS is a logical pick.   So guess what, SSSAS is very popular choice for Alexandria families.  They must all want to be snobs!  Imagine them not wanting to have to move to Arlington, Vienna, Fairfax, Falls Church, Springfield, Burke, or McLean either when their child turns 5 or 14.  Oh the snobbery of them all.    [/quote]

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