Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My two kids and the kids of MANY of my friends--

Peabody to Watkins to Stuart-Hobson to Walls. And now many going on to great SLACs or universities. Some go from Stuart to privates.

We are long time DC and Hill residents, so the whole racial and OOB obsessiveness was never really a factor. We judged the schools by what we knew and saw in the teachers and in our own kids. They were happy and did well. We feel very lucky!

That simply cannot be. Posters on this thread are saying "no one" and "never". So clearly you are confused about your kids and their cohort. Unless...is it possible that the anonymous posters that claim to know all are full of crap???!!! Say it ain't so.

Wait--I guess I AM confused, but not about my own children. Are you saying that my kids did not go to these schools and I "simply cannot" feel lucky that my kids had a good experience? Or that there is no way I did NOT obsess about the race or the addresses of my kids classmates? Or maybe you're saying it's not possible that anyone who goes to these schools can have a good experience? Very strange...not sure why you would feel such a strong need to refute what was a simple telling of the experiences of my family and those of our friends...unless you need to justify your own position?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My two kids and the kids of MANY of my friends--

Peabody to Watkins to Stuart-Hobson to Walls. And now many going on to great SLACs or universities. Some go from Stuart to privates.

We are long time DC and Hill residents, so the whole racial and OOB obsessiveness was never really a factor. We judged the schools by what we knew and saw in the teachers and in our own kids. They were happy and did well. We feel very lucky!

That simply cannot be. Posters on this thread are saying "no one" and "never". So clearly you are confused about your kids and their cohort. Unless...is it possible that the anonymous posters that claim to know all are full of crap???!!! Say it ain't so.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a mixed bag. I know Hill folks who attend Walls, McKinley, Duke, DeMatha (in MD), Gonzaga, Latin and Basis.

NCS
St. Anselm's
Georgetown Visitation
St. John's
Sidwell
St. Alban's

For current high schools, also add:

SSAS
Field


GDS
Holy Child
Maret
Burke

In other words -- pretty much every private high school in DC that can somehow be reached by Metro, plus SSAS and Potomac, plus Ellington/Walls/Latin/BASIS. Wilson back when they let OOB in but not generally an option any longer.

High school options have been changing (for the better) of late, but remember that current HS students were in elementary school back when "everyone" on the Hill went to St Peters, the Cluster, or CHDS and would sooner put their eye out than go to Brent. This is not the same DCPS today it was when our kids were starting school 10-15 years ago...

Exactly. Just like it won't be the same DCPS 10 years from now, because of all the changing demographics in the city in the past 10 years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just type "bump". It's faster.

Respectfully, I don't think you understand the terms you are using. Assuming the PP was trying to express agreement or the post made them happy then they responded correctly. "Bump" would be used to draw attention to and move into the recent threads a post that had been neglected but was worthy of renewed attention.

Anonymous wrote:Latin and Basis.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a mixed bag. I know Hill folks who attend Walls, McKinley, Duke, DeMatha (in MD), Gonzaga, Latin and Basis.

NCS
St. Anselm's
Georgetown Visitation
St. John's
Sidwell
St. Alban's

For current high schools, also add:

SSAS
Field
GDS
Holy Child
Maret
Burke

In other words -- pretty much every private high school in DC that can somehow be reached by Metro, plus SSAS and Potomac, plus Ellington/Walls/Latin/BASIS. Wilson back when they let OOB in but not generally an option any longer.

High school options have been changing (for the better) of late, but remember that current HS students were in elementary school back when "everyone" on the Hill went to St Peters, the Cluster, or CHDS and would sooner put their eye out than go to Brent. This is not the same DCPS today it was when our kids were starting school 10-15 years ago...

Anonymous wrote:Just type "bump". It's faster.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My two kids and the kids of MANY of my friends--

Peabody to Watkins to Stuart-Hobson to Walls. And now many going on to great SLACs or universities. Some go from Stuart to privates.

We are long time DC and Hill residents, so the whole racial and OOB obsessiveness was never really a factor. We judged the schools by what we knew and saw in the teachers and in our own kids. They were happy and did well. We feel very lucky!

That simply cannot be. Posters on this thread are saying "no one" and "never". So clearly you are confused about your kids and their cohort. Unless...is it possible that the anonymous posters that claim to know all are full of crap???!!! Say it ain't so.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a mixed bag. I know Hill folks who attend Walls, McKinley, Duke, DeMatha (in MD), Gonzaga, Latin and Basis.

NCS
St. Anselm's
Georgetown Visitation
St. John's
Sidwell
St. Alban's

For current high schools, also add:

SSAS
Field
GDS
Holy Child
Maret
Burke

In other words -- pretty much every private high school in DC that can somehow be reached by Metro, plus SSAS and Potomac, plus Ellington/Walls/Latin/BASIS. Wilson back when they let OOB in but not generally an option any longer.

High school options have been changing (for the better) of late, but remember that current HS students were in elementary school back when "everyone" on the Hill went to St Peters, the Cluster, or CHDS and would sooner put their eye out than go to Brent. This is not the same DCPS today it was when our kids were starting school 10-15 years ago...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a mixed bag. I know Hill folks who attend Walls, McKinley, Duke, DeMatha (in MD), Gonzaga, Latin and Basis.

NCS
St. Anselm's
Georgetown Visitation
St. John's
Sidwell
St. Alban's

Anonymous wrote:My two kids and the kids of MANY of my friends--

Peabody to Watkins to Stuart-Hobson to Walls. And now many going on to great SLACs or universities. Some go from Stuart to privates.

We are long time DC and Hill residents, so the whole racial and OOB obsessiveness was never really a factor. We judged the schools by what we knew and saw in the teachers and in our own kids. They were happy and did well. We feel very lucky!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a mixed bag. I know Hill folks who attend Walls, McKinley, Duke, DeMatha (in MD), Gonzaga, Latin and Basis.

NCS - $38,850
St. Anselm's -$25,000
Georgetown Visitation - $27,400
St. John's - $20,750
Sidwell - $37,750
St. Alban's - $40,480

For convenience I've appended the list above with the 2015 tuition numbers. Please keep in mind that these don't include books or other fees at some of these schools. The way people here throw around the term "go private" or suggest that it's that easy amuses me. If you have enough disposable income to send your kid to these schools for 7 years (and to pay the tuition increases that will come annually) then you are in a 30+% federal tax bracket and paying almost 9% to DC. So do the math on this. To pay for tuition that costs only 25k a year you need to find $40,000 pretax W2 dollars just laying around (and that's for the tuitions that are only 25k. Some people can find that kind of money. But to throw that around like a legitimate and accessible option is absurd. But because high income earners make a lot they can probably find that amount. But at a lower tax rate and lower income levels where the heck are you going to find that money? And at what cost? If you saved half of that ($12,500) a year into a 529 account starting in 6th grade you'd have college more than paid for. If you are already maxed out in your 529 and college is paid for then no problem. But if your kid is going to graduate with a hundred grand (or more) in student debt because you spent all your money on private schools then you have to ask yourself if staying in an area without viable schools is the responsible thing to do.

P.S. You still have to apply and get accepted to those schools, yet another barrier to entry.
P.P.S And that's assuming only one kid. I see lots and lots of families on the Hill with 2 or 3.

Do you always fly off the handle? A PP listed middle schools at which she knew a Hill kid who attended. I added to that list. This doesn't mean every Hill family will be able to afford to send one it more children to any of these schools, much less that they would be admitted. We get it, the middle school situation is stressful and it's unfortunate thst the most realistic public options aren't all that, Basis included. Maybe the Hillcrest test-in school moves forward but I wouldn't count on it. In the meantime, to the best of my knowledge, Washington Global has done little to no outreach to Hill families and appears to have a different mission in mind.