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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regular UMC families (along with many others) have, for the most part, all been pushed out. Unless they have wealthy grandparents paying the bills, they can’t afford it. Tuition is the highest in the area at $53,000 a year per child and goes up every year. A school that used to educated many in the community because tuition was more reasonable, is now a Mecca for the Uber wealthy.[/quote]

While STA’s tuition may be the highest, schools like GDS and Sidwell are not far behind. Many private school tuitions are high.  Real wages for the middle class have been stagnating since the 1970s and purchasing power has decreased for most UMC.

At a guess 25% of STA is UMC (HHI over $250,000), 50% wealthy (HHI over $750,000), another 25% receive financial aid.

Not ideally diverse but no different than many privates and better than some.

Definitely not true that all UMC have been pushed out. We are double income professionals with HHI over $500,000.  We are poor compared to some STA parents, but we’re there for the education, not to keep up with the STA Joneses. The school could do more to moderate the materialism is rampant in middle school, but part of that is just the age and is true at almost any middle school. By high school, the boys generally value athletic and academic talent and a sense of humor more than material things, although outrageously expensive sneakers remain a thing.  [/quote]

This is NO way that 25% of the families have incomes $250K to $500K.  I would put this group at 10%, max, probablyl even less. 
We're in this demographic and we're a social family and I can literally think of about 5 other families like us. (and also painful to pay $53K for a kid on this income).
I don't think anyone realizes how few "DC middle class" (the $250-500K) families there are in this demographic at STA unless they themselves are in it.  [/quote]

I’m in the DC UMC group, and I disagree. The really rich and UMCs are about evenly divided at the school.[/quote]

what income do you consider the "DC UMC" group?[/quote]

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