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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is a link that works.

http://www.catholicacademies.org/

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None of those schools are free for 100% of students.  They have lower tuition, offer financial aid, and accept vouchers, but they aren't free.

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WJA is a flat 300 a year for students. That's not free, but it covers all their meals (including dinner), after care, and their uniforms from the waist up, so my guess is that is no more and in most cases less than the cost of having a middle school student in public since they don't provide dinner as part of FARMS and after care isn't free. [/quote]

WJA isn't a member of the organization linked above.  I agree that WJA and San Miguel are effectively free, but neither is part of the CCA, and neither is an elementary school.

To be clear, I think that WJA, San Miguel, CCA, Center City and Don Bosco are all great things that the archdiocese has done for educating low income kids in DC.  That list goes far beyond what the independent schools provide.  But the PP that started this tangent stated that there were 5 Catholic elementary schools that offered free education to 100% of their students.  I am often in a position to try and help families looking for schools, and so I questioned the statement because I'd love to know if such schools exist.

The only religious elementary school in DC that I know that's free for 100% of students is Bishop Walker.  [/quote]

Ok, fine. WJA is a Catholic 5th-8th school for boys. 100% of the students attending WJA pay 300 dollars a year. This fee covers 3 meals a day, morning and afterschool care/tutoring, uniform shirts, sweatshirts, etc. and extracurriculars. I'm assuming your quibble is either with my addition to the CCA post or that I lumped WJA in with the elementaries. As someone else mentioned, K-8 is Catholic elementary. And WJA is a Catholic school which provides essentially free education even if it is not in the CCA. I never claimed it was, I was just adding another elementary grades free Catholic school to the list. [/quote]

No, I'm "quibbling" with the fact that the CCA schools all have tuitions over $5,000, and that while some families pay less due to Financial Aid or vouchers it's far from the 100% you originally stated.

I will agree that $300 when uniforms and dinner are included rounds out to free, but $5,000 is a different calculation.[/quote]

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