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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell and NCS and St.Albans can draw from the pool of best kids in DC and around because they thrive on the inability of the city to give families a clear and predictable path for their kids public school options.

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You all seem to think most people choose these elite private schools because of the state of the public school.  I don't think that is at all accurate.  If it were, you wouldn't get so many MoCo and NOVA students at the top privates.  Nor would you have so many rich families living in NWDC.  Most families who choose private school do so because they prefer private school.  [/quote]

The super rich (500K +) go private and do not even bother to invest time to understand the options in the DCPS. I spoke with some who were not even familiar with the IB / OB concepts, or were not aware of which their IB schools were.  Two layers below, the middle and middle/high income families, on the contrary, have shown in the past decade significant substitution patterns in favor of DCPS once the performance started to increase.

In my neighborhood (Spring Valley East) several families had their eldest kids in private schools and then enrolled the youngest ones into Janney and Deal (and not because they cared less for them).

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