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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in-bound for Murch and there are 7 families on our street who have elementary aged kids - 5 families go to private, 2 go to Murch.[/quote]

We are IB for Murch, off Reno Rd.  There are six households with elementary aged kids and five send their kids to Murch.

Private, non-parochial school is honestly too expensive K-12 for even most UMC households these days, and spots are much harder to secure.  Even 2-lawyer families don't honestly have $150k/yr after taxes to spend on their 3 kids at Maret for 13 years. In the absence of wealthy boomer grandparents paying the tab, the default is DCPS.

That's a huge change on my same block from the aughts, when the HHI :: tuition ratio was more favorable. Back then, almost nobody on our street used Murch or Deal though they were considered among the best DCPS.

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The math starts to look a little different around high school, but for the earlier grades, the return on investment for tuition over public school is not significant.[/quote]

Church Guy OP here. We know some people who have 3 elementary school kids at Beauvoir/Maret/Lowell and honestly that’s a terrible financial decision just given oppo costs. I haven’t mathed it out but I think it would have to be less than 25% of income to be anything but a bad investment decision ($150k or so a year in VTI or something gives you A LOT in 19 years- in fact it’s still a pretty rough decision at 30k a year).

As others have said, I understand the inflation of private prices is pretty recent. But man, I dunno. [/quote]

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