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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It probably relates to the very poor administration and the quality of teachers.  The school exists because the local public school is possibly worse than CHDS.  If CHDS was located in NWDC its doors would have closed already.   [/quote]

You mean Brent Elementary, the in-boundary public school several blocks north?  This school is certainly still a little "worse" than CHDS academically, but unless you have piles of cash, your little kid might actually get a better education if you send him/her to Brent and use the money you're saving to pay for enrichment.

In our case, paying for CHDS would have meant giving up our Chinese-speaking au pair, making it difficult to raise our daughter bilingual (my husband only speaks Chinese to her, as does the au pair), month-long annual trips to Hong Kong to visit family and work on her Chinese, the Johns Hopkins CTY camps in Alexandria (where she focuses on math), and probably music lessons.

Brent isn't a bad option these days.  CHDS parents who tend to write-off DC public schools as a category may be surprised to find that Brent has a nicer playground than CHDS, and an equally nice media center/computer lab with brand new Macs, a lovely library and a seriously good after-school program.  Remarkably, the percentage of the kids getting free or reduced price lunch has plummeted in the last decade from nearly 3/4 to around 15%.  Our child was admitted to CHDS but we passed.  We wouldn't have sent her to any other Hill PS, and won't stay in DCPS beyond 5th, but we couldn't see that private ES was worth it, not on Capitol Hill in 2012.

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