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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote] I’m sorry, but you are minimizing the school’s academic chops. The top of the class kids at WES have always had their pick of Sidwell, GDS, St. Alban’s, etc. There is a broad range of talents in the class since the kids start so young. The graduating class typically includes kids who go to a broad range of schools, including public HS like Whitman or the magnets. [/quote]

This is factual. Some of you guys should look at their end-of-year magazines. Kids are accepted to Sidwell, Maret, STA/NCS, etc. and a few kids stand out every year as high SSAT scorers.

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[quote]This is mostly incorrect actually. I don’t want to identify anyone specific since it is such as a small school. But the kids going to the more competitive admissions like Maret, GDS, Potomac, NCS, STA have often been middle to bottom of the class. A lot of the top kids academically have decided against the DC private schools and are at schools like Whitman or one of the Catholic schools. So you can’t read as much into prior years as much as you think by the percentages. A lot of the smartest kids want something different for high school and a lot of middle of road kids end up at places that have a reputation for being strong.[/quote][/quote]

The fact that "middle of the road kids" can get into the DC private schools that are competitive seems to tell me that WES is a strong academic school!

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New poster. I don’t think previous post was arguing that WES is academically weak, but that the academic strength of the student or the K-8 school is loosely tied with the high school chosen. That was true for my child’s class. We had two very strong students in my child’s grade and both went to Whitman. There were other kids in the grade that went to Big 3 type schools but it wasn’t because they were unusually strong students.

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