Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 21:28     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Probably the most well known schools are:

Sierra Canyon (Kardashians/jenners/bronny)
Crossroads (so many celebs)
Beverly Hills High School (same; shout out to West Beverly too )
Andover
Exeter
Permian (Friday Night Lights)
IMG Academy (sports factory across multiple sports)
St. Vincent-St. Mary (lebron; because he didn’t play college this one has a higher profile)
Lower Merion (Kobe; same)
Laguna Hills (Hills, Laguna, etc. this is fading but still a fairly broad demo)
Sidwell (Clintons/Obamas). Nothing else in DC is on this level of name ID.
Not sure what from NYC breaks through — could see a case for Dalton, Spence, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant but none seem that famous to like an average person in the Midwest.

This is macabre but the most famous are probably actually the ones with major tragedies like Columbine and the like.



Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 21:26     Subject: Re:Most famous DC Private
I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 21:22     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.


Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!


TJ has made national news. Like Lowell public school in San Francisco. I know nobody in San Francisco but l pay attention to the news.


I read the WaPo and the NYTimes everyday (LA Times when I lived there), and I still never heard of TJ until relatively recently. I can’t name a single famous TJ alum (or any famous TJ parents), but I can name several from Sidwell, STA, Gonzaga, GDS, Prep.


Stop trying to make Prep happen. Absolutely nobody knows them outside DC/MD.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 21:12     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the most famous. Ranked nationally. Everyone else doesn't matter.


Who? What?
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 20:30     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the most famous. Ranked nationally. Everyone else doesn't matter.


True. BIM was recently ranked the #1 private school in the DMV, and one of the top nationally.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 20:11     Subject: Most famous DC Private
BIM is the most famous. Ranked nationally. Everyone else doesn't matter.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 19:30     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's DeMatha or Gonzaga. More people know sports than academics.


Most people know neither. The only reason you know or care that those schools produce good athletes is because they are local schools. Lots of places have a local school or two that is known for some sports program or another, and can tell you "oh such and such athlete went there." But you or I would never recognize the name of the school because it's in Dallas or Denver or Atlanta or something.

People know Sidwell because it made the news a lot as the place that Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls went. It has nothing to do with academics. It has to do with fame. People care about where very famous people go.


This is just completely wrong. Just because you don’t follow football or basketball doesn’t mean that millions and millions of people do. Sidwell is fairly well known because the Clintons and Obamas but you grossly underestimate how many people could name more than a handful of the high school football powers.


I do follow pro football and basketball. I could not tell you where most football players attended high school. I might be able to tell you "they're from Texas" or something. Basketball is a bit different but honestly, once they are in the NBA who cares. There are lots of basketball programs in the country that have produced well known basketball players. I only notice the ones who went to DeMatha because DeMatha is local to me. My brother is also a big basketball fan but he lives in California and when I mentioned DeMatha to him he was like "that sounds kind of familiar" but he would not have been able to produce the name on his own.

Meanwhile if you asked people in podunk Iowa what Sidwell is, more of them could tell you "didn't the Obama kids go to school there?" than tell you about DeMatha or Gonzaga. Except that most people would assume you were talking about the Gonzaga college basketball program.


Not every school on this list is recognizable to the casual basketball fan, but many hardcore hoops fans are familiar with teams in the top ten, including #5.

https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/greatest-high-school-basketball-teams-de1f0baf83734149
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 19:02     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.


Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!


If true? Let me google that for you. Lazy.
https://www.gds.org/about/news/story/~board/gds-news/post/remembering-rbg


Lazy? Why are you resorting to name calling? I have never been interested enough to lookup where SCt. Justices send their children.


You wrote “if true”. Rather than look it up. Ya l consider that lazy. It’s not name calling.


🙄

No one cares about GDS that much. Move along.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 19:01     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:To answer Op - STA, NCS, and Sidwell

Bush family, Roosevelts, Shrivers, John Kerry, Gore either attended themselves or sent kids to either STA or NCS or both schools - definitely was aware of both of those

Obamas and Clintons to Sidwell


Roosevelts and Nixons also attended/graduated from Sidwell.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 18:59     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.


Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!


If true? Let me google that for you. Lazy.
https://www.gds.org/about/news/story/~board/gds-news/post/remembering-rbg


Lazy? Why are you resorting to name calling? I have never been interested enough to lookup where SCt. Justices send their children.


You wrote “if true”. Rather than look it up. Ya l consider that lazy. It’s not name calling.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 18:57     Subject: Most famous DC Private
To answer Op - STA, NCS, and Sidwell

Bush family, Roosevelts, Shrivers, John Kerry, Gore either attended themselves or sent kids to either STA or NCS or both schools - definitely was aware of both of those

Obamas and Clintons to Sidwell
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 18:49     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I knew Madeira because of the headmistress.....


There was a movie about this where Annette Benning played the Head of School and Ben Kingsley played the murdered doctor.


That makes Madeira infamous, not famous.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 18:37     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:I knew Madeira because of the headmistress.....


There was a movie about this where Annette Benning played the Head of School and Ben Kingsley played the murdered doctor.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 18:20     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.


Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!


If true? Let me google that for you. Lazy.
https://www.gds.org/about/news/story/~board/gds-news/post/remembering-rbg


Lazy? Why are you resorting to name calling? I have never been interested enough to lookup where SCt. Justices send their children.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 18:18     Subject: Most famous DC Private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in another country and moved to NOVA about 15 years ago. I’m not a parent of private school kids. I’ve heard of Sidwell, GDS (RBG and KBJ kids), Prep (Cavanaugh) and Madeira. The most famous school is TJ.


Perspective is based on where you sit. TJ is definitely not the most famous. You’ve heard of it because you live in NoVa. I grew up in LA, and moved to DC about 10 years ago. I didn’t hear about TJ until I had children, 7 years ago. However, the only DC school I heard about while living in LA was Sidwell.

If true, I just learned from this post that RBG’s children attended GDS. That’s news to me!


TJ has made national news. Like Lowell public school in San Francisco. I know nobody in San Francisco but l pay attention to the news.


I read the WaPo and the NYTimes everyday (LA Times when I lived there), and I still never heard of TJ until relatively recently. I can’t name a single famous TJ alum (or any famous TJ parents), but I can name several from Sidwell, STA, Gonzaga, GDS, Prep.