Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 15:03     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
50 percent north Potomac
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 15:01     Subject: Re:What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
Anonymous wrote:When we were moving to the DC area, our company relocation consultant told us that the default for families that move to Maryland was private, and the default for families that move to Virginia was public. At the time MCPS was lagging behind significantly to FCPS, except for Whitman. Low and behold, we moved to Virginia and our kids attend private.


When was this? 1960?
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 15:01     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
Only 5% on our block goes to private, but probably more like 10-20% in the overall neighborhood. Affluent Arlington neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 14:54     Subject: Re:What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
When we were moving to the DC area, our company relocation consultant told us that the default for families that move to Maryland was private, and the default for families that move to Virginia was public. At the time MCPS was lagging behind significantly to FCPS, except for Whitman. Low and behold, we moved to Virginia and our kids attend private.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 14:09     Subject: Re:What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
50/50 Private--St Anselms, Gonzaga, DeMatha (mostly boys on our street)
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 14:09     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
One household. Parent is admin at the school.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 13:50     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
I live in a fancy apartment building. Not too many kids, but of the ones who live here, about half go to private.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 13:44     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
Au park:
I can track the trajectory of the high schoolers on my block and the next block:
Elementary: 11 Janney, 1 GDS
By High school: 2 SJC, 2 Gonzaga, 1 visitation, 1 GDS, 2 Cathedral schools, 2 Jackson Reed, 1 St Anselms, 1 GDS
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 12:21     Subject: Re:What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
Capitol Hill, zero. Maybe a dozen school-age kids on the block.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 12:06     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
Anonymous wrote:40% at parochial or independent schools, not MCPS.

Bethesda - Whitman district


+1. We live walking distance to Whitman, and 40-50% at parochial or independent schools is about right for our neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 11:59     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
Our street is 50/50 in Bethesda but with 25% moving private to address a child’s needs.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 11:50     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
0 extremely expensive homes MOCO over 6 million.

Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 11:47     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
40% at parochial or independent schools, not MCPS.

Bethesda - Whitman district
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 11:30     Subject: What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
100%, but we are the only house on our block.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2023 11:09     Subject: Re:What percent of your block/neighborhood goes to private?
Of families with school age children that I know, probably 75% are/were attending private.