Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir's leadership has blown away NPS's during covid. That's concerning.

Not if op chose beauvoir. Bvr leadership is top notch, guided by a great hos.

Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir's leadership has blown away NPS's during covid. That's concerning.

Can you please elaborate more?

Beauvoir's leadership has blown away NPS's during covid. That's concerning.

Sometimes I wonder if all our questions here were actually answered by admins in these schools. 😂

Anonymous wrote:OP, for a lot of questions (science and math teachers, placement, after school program ...) you can just directly ask the admission teams.

This board has a lot of useful info. But as for school comparison, sometimes people have bias (naturally), sometimes people have kids on waiting lists, and quite often they just have kids in one school but not the other so a comparison is difficult.

Admissions directors have bias too of course. I think it makes sense to ask--what is the program (like for math) if you have firsthand knowledge, what are the resources, what are some stand out features. Also, a lot of people are interested in how enrichment and remediation are addressed, tracking/ not tracking, advanced placement - that sort of thing. And let's admit it, almost everyone thinks their kid belongs in the latter LOL

OP, for a lot of questions (science and math teachers, placement, after school program ...) you can just directly ask the admission teams.

This board has a lot of useful info. But as for school comparison, sometimes people have bias (naturally), sometimes people have kids on waiting lists, and quite often they just have kids in one school but not the other so a comparison is difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, for K-3, there is no real reason to think NPS is stronger or weaker than BVR in academics.

ppl look at facilities, community, and outplacement. For outplacement, if you don't mind single-sex schools, the chance of getting into a big 3/5 is 50% lower in NPS vs. BVR.

If you strongly dislike single-sex schools, neither of them look that promising.

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Why wouldn't either be promising? Kids go to co-ed from both every year.

I think more NPS kids are going co-ed than single-sex this year, actually!

Anonymous wrote:OP, for K-3, there is no real reason to think NPS is stronger or weaker than BVR in academics.

ppl look at facilities, community, and outplacement. For outplacement, if you don't mind single-sex schools, the chance of getting into a big 3/5 is 50% lower in NPS vs. BVR.

If you strongly dislike single-sex schools, neither of them look that promising.

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Why wouldn't either be promising? Kids go to co-ed from both every year.

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Anonymous wrote:Only about a gazillion past discussions on this topic, OP... did you search at all?

Why did you respond? Go away if you can't be helpful.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:Only about a gazillion past discussions on this topic, OP... did you search at all?

Why did you respond? Go away if you can't be helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:Any comments on the math curriculum at NPS?

Honey, you’ve gotta just pick a school. The difference between bvr and nps isn’t going to come down to the math curriculum.

Honestly I don’t think the math curriculum is either schools strongest suit.

So which school has better math?

I mean beyond these two schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Any comments on the math curriculum at NPS?

Honey, you’ve gotta just pick a school. The difference between bvr and nps isn’t going to come down to the math curriculum.

Honestly I don’t think the math curriculum is either schools strongest suit.

So which school has better math?

Anonymous wrote:OP, for K-3, there is no real reason to think NPS is stronger or weaker than BVR in academics.

ppl look at facilities, community, and outplacement. For outplacement, if you don't mind single-sex schools, the chance of getting into a big 3/5 is 50% lower in NPS vs. BVR.

If you strongly dislike single-sex schools, neither of them look that promising.

You're forgetting commute. Commute commute commute.

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Anonymous wrote:Any comments on the math curriculum at NPS?

Honey, you’ve gotta just pick a school. The difference between bvr and nps isn’t going to come down to the math curriculum.

Honestly I don’t think the math curriculum is either schools strongest suit.

If you want single sex for MS and HS, go Bvr because you’re basically guaranteed a spot at NCS/STA. But if you want to leave for a coed school, avoid Bvr because you don’t want to be competing with all the other families who will be seeking coed from Bvr at the same time. Better to be the “diverse” student applying from NPS for 4th rather than one of a dozen Bvr students. There’s a big rush of Bvr students applying to places like Sidwell and GDS every entry year, looking to avoid the single sex track.