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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have girls, check out Bryn Mawr. Believe it is still considered the best top private HS in the state, and the lower and middle school educations are fantastic as well.

As someone mentioned, once you hit upper school, you’ll be paying 30k which is still a hell of a lot better than the 50k in most DC privates.

We had our kid in a preschool we loved in DC and almost stayed for (which in retrospect, was quite silly) and now have her in a great program for a 1/3 of the cost. Huge weight off our shoulders, financially and mentally. [/quote]

What people don’t understand in this thread is that you can live in Roland Park and send your kid to Bryn Mawr for much less than to live in a place like Cleveland Park and send your kid to a public high school like Wilson. Bryn Mawr is one of the best private schools Maryland and is almost equivalent to sending your DD to Holton Arms. You could live in a neighborhood with dozens of hip walkable restaurants and bars like Hampden and send your child to Friends, Guilford, Roland Park Country Day, or Bryn Mawr and do so for $5k a month ($2,000 a month tops for a renovated 2,000 sq ft rowhome with high end finished and $3,000 a month tops for your child’s elite private school tuition). That kind of life is feasible for UMC dual income couples making around $200k a year. $5,000 a month in DC gives you barely enough to afford a comparable rowhome on H St.

And PP’s assertion that a place like Roland Park is dangerous is untrue. Compare Roland Park crime stats to Cleveland Park and it’s comparable and probably slightly less. Roland Park has much less crime than a place like Brookland however, and much better schools.[/quote]

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