Anonymous
Post 05/20/2025 17:11     Subject: Re:Private school enrollment across DMV
Our private school is seeing a surge in application in part because some are fleeing public schools now that Trump is interfering in curriculum.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2025 17:09     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

In my non-DMV city, the lower-tier schools are struggling (most are conservative religious schools, fwiw). One Catholic is having issues but that stems from long-simmering issues that exploded this year. The other Catholics have waitlists (that aren't moving much judging by the online chatter). All the top privates filled their seats and have sizable waitpools.


We don’t care about your non-DMV city. Why are you even posting on this forum?


Why do you have to be so rude? I'm interested in what the PP said. National trends do have a correlation to DMV schools.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2025 16:58     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:DC Public Schools are the best recruiting tool area privates could ever want.

All could double in size tomorrow if space permitted.


Same with FCPS. Private schools are laughing all the way to the bank thanks to the boundary changes and the lack of discipline.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2025 13:20     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
DC Public Schools are the best recruiting tool area privates could ever want.

All could double in size tomorrow if space permitted.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2025 12:46     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The COVID effect is probably going to last at least a decade. There are a lot of families, like mine, who pulled our kids from public at the start of COVID when our kids were in elementary and middle school who stuck with private through high school and were happy to do so. Those that opted for private for their kindergarteners who would have otherwise gone public are still in it from the COVID effect so I suspect even with the birth rate decline the schools around here will have a few more years of runway. I'd be preparing for the next few years if I were a private school, though, making sure I could weather a downturn around 2030.


This is us. Had a kindergartner enrolled in public and switched to private the August before school was supposed to start. Thankfully because MCPS stayed on zoom until 3/15 that year. Still in private, 4th grade now.


+1
Not sure what we will do for MS though.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2025 23:17     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How else would you interpret the phrase "not-very-regulated"?


OP didn't say that; that was some jerk who doesn't even know what school it is. I think all the schools around here do have accreditation anyway.

Most do; certainly all the mainstream ones and most of what’s discussed on DCUM. There are a few small ones or newer ones that aren’t accredited, although in some cases they are in the process of it, which takes years.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2025 22:52     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:The COVID effect is probably going to last at least a decade. There are a lot of families, like mine, who pulled our kids from public at the start of COVID when our kids were in elementary and middle school who stuck with private through high school and were happy to do so. Those that opted for private for their kindergarteners who would have otherwise gone public are still in it from the COVID effect so I suspect even with the birth rate decline the schools around here will have a few more years of runway. I'd be preparing for the next few years if I were a private school, though, making sure I could weather a downturn around 2030.


This is us. Had a kindergartner enrolled in public and switched to private the August before school was supposed to start. Thankfully because MCPS stayed on zoom until 3/15 that year. Still in private, 4th grade now.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2025 22:40     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:How else would you interpret the phrase "not-very-regulated"?


OP didn't say that; that was some jerk who doesn't even know what school it is. I think all the schools around here do have accreditation anyway.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2025 22:35     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Which school, OP?



A smaller religious school.in VA - prefer not to say.


You didn’t want an education for your kids ?

Indoctrination more important that’s sucky parenting


Oh look, it's the "indoctrination" poster again.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2025 14:12     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Which school, OP?



A smaller religious school.in VA - prefer not to say.


You didn’t want an education for your kids ?

Indoctrination more important that’s sucky parenting


My kids' small cheap religious school had more per capita NMSF recipients last year than big religious schools like Sidwell Friends and NCS, as well as irreligious ones like Georgetown Day or Maret. How much of that is their education, I can't say, but at least they could probably define what a woman is by the end of it.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2025 13:54     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Which school, OP?



A smaller religious school.in VA - prefer not to say.


You didn’t want an education for your kids ?

Indoctrination more important that’s sucky parenting


+1. I don’t think it’s a bad thing if these small, not-very-regulated schools close


So you don’t believe in a variety of choices for different families.

So you would have the accreditation process for schools be non-existent?


The geniuses that accredit these schools also saw fit to eliminate phonics and give kids screens for 8 hrs a day so... I don't give a ton of credence to an unaccountable 3rd party accreditation. I trust parents to investigate and know what is being taught and if it is rigorous enough. Accreditations are fine but there are other ways.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2025 13:11     Subject: Private school enrollment across DMV
How else would you interpret the phrase "not-very-regulated"?