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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Wow...  The competition between Gonzaga and Landon is so toxic. They are not that different they are boys schools I think some of you are crazy. You’re not going to get your answer from this forum the people on this forum are absolutely insane. [/quote]

It is not toxic.  The people chiming in on this thread are.  Landon and Gonzaga are different in some ways and similar in others.  The only big difference is size of overall class and the fact that one is Catholic.  There is overlap of friends and families in both of these schools.  I went to a lacrosse game between the two of them and the parents of boys from Landon and Gonzaga were sitting together chatting away.  Many are friends, family.[/quote]

There is one slightly toxic Catholic booster on here who is so far immersed in a very local Catholic bubble that the poster seems unable to fathom that there are thousands of Catholics whose kids are not in parochial schools, but who will apply to private high schools, including some Catholic/some not. That poster is looking at the list of where kids go from Catholic parochial schools and says that nearly all go to Catholic high schools and so concludes that only and all Catholics choose Catholic high school (obviously does not follow logically); but that poster has no access to where kids arriving at Catholic high schools are coming from, nor information on where Catholics who do not attend parochial schools go to high school, nor how many Catholics are at non-Catholic high schools, nor how many non-Catholics are at Catholic high schools (though a few schools do publish that information). Possibly that posters' circle of friends excludes anyone who does not fit the poster's narrative.

In 2018-19, 1,081 8th graders from ADW schools chose Catholic high schools (an 88% retention rate, which is lower than that poster seems to believe). There are 18 ADW Catholic high schools (24 if you include close in VA), with 9th grade seats at ~3000 (not including VA seats). Rough numbers, but that means nearly half of the kids attending Catholic high schools in the ADW did not attend parochial schools; no complete data on how many are Catholic. As one example, in our Catholic upper school, 65% of new students last year came from non-Catholic elementary/middle schools. No doubt that may be a higher percentage than Gonzaga or Prep, but they both also pull from more than just diocesan 8th grades, plus international students.[/quote]

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