Anonymous wrote:22205 (Arlington) and I would say 15-20%. Our kids are in private (non-Catholic) schools.

it’s definitely higher the closer you get to the bridge

On my street, all houses but one are private. The one goes to a magnet school. And, with the exception of siblings, every single kid on the street goes to a different private school!

Clarendon: about 20% all grades, but at the high school level just our block it's about 65% of homes. More and more families are going private. There has been a huge change since Covid.

Capitol Hill. About 80% of kids are public.

Anonymous wrote:Our immediate area in McLean is probably more than 50% private.

+1

I just did the math for our block in Van Ness DC, and it's exactly a 50/50 split (not counting kids who graduated or are too young).

My neighboorhood in Fairfax is 50/50.

I live in a nice neighborhood in North Potomac MD the other excellent schools but also extremely high household incomes and probably very high achieving families. I would say our neighborhood skews 85 percent private (Bullis, Jewish day school, st Andrews, Holton Arms, Landon, Sidwell, Marer) and 15 percent private between the one family that is in public elementary and the few in public middle and high school. Aside from taking much much swankier vacations and having nicer on site lunches, all of these kids will go on to achieve similar things in life.
Before the pandemic the neighborhood was 50-50 private and public. Issues with MCPS and other concerns obliterated that ratio.

Most of the people I know who are well off in Bethesda do Private School. A few do Whitman, just a few. That's just my social circle.

At the country club it's about 85% at private school.

Anonymous wrote:How does anyone know this? You know everyone on your block?

Yes I know everyone on our block except one house that is a rental that turns over fairly often. Sometimes I know them but haven't had a chance to meet the new renters this time. Westover Arlington, on our block there are 16 kids, one is in Catholic school which started due to pandemic but was a good fit so staying for now.

Our immediate area in McLean is probably more than 50% private.

22205 (Arlington) and I would say 15-20%. Our kids are in private (non-Catholic) schools.

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Anonymous wrote:None that I’m aware of. In our last neighborhood the private school fams didn’t mix with us 🙄 (Beverly Hill, Alexandria)

That’s unfortunate. We are in BevHills, with kids in public and private (mixed household) and all the kids in the surrounding streets, from public and a variety of privates, play together regularly.

I agree - that’s too bad! We are in Beverley Hills/North Ridge too and about 40-50% are in private schools, mostly Catholic schools. We are one of the private schools families but we certainly know our neighbors with similar age kids who go to public (George Mason), as the kids play together in the neighborhood or on the same soccer teams.

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Zip code Market Pvt School% Students

20007 Georgetown/Foxhall 58.3% 1,185
20008 Woodley Park 55.2% 1,182
20015 CC-DC 46.1% 1,400
20016 Palisades/SV 41.9% 1,855
20815 CC-MD 39.4% 1,951
20818 Cabin John 35.6% 128
22314 Old Town 35.0% 637
20814 Downtown Bethesda 35.0% 1,332
22302 Rosemont 34.6% 776
22307 Belle Haven 33.9% 533
20816 Bethesda 29.7% 1,060
20817 Bethesda 29.7% 2,201
20895 Kensington 27.9% 998
20854 Potomac 26.3% 2,729
22102 Spring Hill 26.0% 1,042
22301 Del Ray 24.5% 425
22101 McLean 24.3% 1,620
22066 Great Falls 22.5% 946
Super Zips 32.4% 22,000

Total DC Area 13.5% 86,143

Most likely this is completely made up and the poster is having a bit of fun.

Not PP. I expect it is sourced but the source is a third-party estimate from years ago.

Probably from here: https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/22101/#schools

About 50% in my inside the Beltway Bethesda neighborhood, and 100% of those in McMansions in our neighborhood do private school. Pre-pandemic the numbers were lower.