PP, we've applied to HTS and are very interested, but of course it's hard to get a feel for the school over Zoom. Could you please explain/elaborate on wht the parents are a "mixed bag"?

Holy Trinity as a parish, great! HTS school, average. I appreciate that it is light on the Catholicism, but in our experience it is also academics light.

But, perfectly kind school leadership and teachers. Great community feel. Parent community is a real mixed bag and that’s being nice.

If you are looking for strong academics I would place others on your list higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Most publics are better than those 3 O.P.

False

+1 the suggestion is laughable right now

Right - that's why admissions are SO competitive this year across all grades! People are pulling their kid from DCPS and MCPS and I don't blame them.

Hmm. You aren’t making your argument. Nobody is flocking to these schools for the academics. They are flocking because they are open. Big difference.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think OLV is as good as some other options like blessed sacrament, st barts

and holy trinity and little flower are the best in ADW

+1

HTS and LF also have the most obnoxious parents.

Signed, a parent from another Catholic school that is rarely mentioned here. Thanks, God.

We just got spots at OLV (switched from Arlington Public). We have been very pleased with going in-person two days and the way they do hybrid (concurrent, but with some non-concurrent time as well). If it would just stop snowing on our in-person days, we’d be thrilled.

I’m not sure what the test scores are at the other two, but OLV’s are right on their website and very impressive. It’s a very small school (one class per grade), and doesn’t go out of its way to recruit. We are not parishioners at OLV, and we got a spot, but I started looking in the fall before people realized the big public districts would struggle so much going back.

I went to Catholic schools growing up and the kids are baptized Catholic, so I am perhaps more comfortable with it, but I am quite liberal and don’t feel it’s dogmatic at all.

The three schools have pros and cons. It will depend on what you are looking for.

I had kids in HTS and OLV and absolutely loved our experience with the OLV. I also met families over the years from Little Flower and, by their experience, it is very similar to HTS.

We are long-time Holy Trinity parishioners and send our two kids to school there too. We love the Jesuit thought ("person for others") and the school has been doing an amazing job at hybrid learning. Our younger kid goes 4 days/week and our older kid is in-person 3 days/week. Teachers took professional development courses on virtual learning over the summer and are Zoom/Google Classroom masters!

We live in walking distance to Little Flower. Unfortunately, we can't hack it's ultra conservative politics (as heard from the pulpit too many times).

We love Holy Trinity and can't recommend it enough!

Anonymous wrote:we are at LFS. it's a wonderful school. they've been open since sept without incident. academics are strong. traditional curriculum. both my kids are thriving there. I know they already had waitlists for some grades prior to covid and now has very long waitlists. being a parishioner you might have a shot. faith component is very emphasized, which we like.

This is our feeling as well. We are LF parishioners and highly recommend the school, although I’m not sure what the chances are of getting off the WL. Catholic doctrine is fairly heavily emphasized so I’m not sure how non-Catholics would feel about that, but the school welcomes children of all faith backgrounds and the academics are strong.

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Anonymous wrote:Most publics are better than those 3 O.P.

False

+1 the suggestion is laughable right now

+100

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most publics are better than those 3 O.P.

False

+1 the suggestion is laughable right now

Right - that's why admissions are SO competitive this year across all grades! People are pulling their kid from DCPS and MCPS and I don't blame them.

doesnt prove the public schools are worse, just proves parents dont feel like supervising their kids' virtual learning

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most publics are better than those 3 O.P.

False

+1 the suggestion is laughable right now

Right - that's why admissions are SO competitive this year across all grades! People are pulling their kid from DCPS and MCPS and I don't blame them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most publics are better than those 3 O.P.

False

+1 the suggestion is laughable right now

Anonymous wrote:Most publics are better than those 3 O.P.

False

Anonymous wrote:I was going to suggest St. Barts!

why

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Anonymous wrote:Most publics are better than those 3 O.P.

Depends. We have one in public, Whitman pyramid, that wouldn’t be a good fit for an ADW school, and another we pulled out of public to attend an ADW school. In my experience, having one kid in each, it is very child dependent.

I was addressing the 3 specific Catholic Schools O.P. mentioned. Not all Catholics.

I know what you meant. My DC attends one of the three schools OP referenced in the title.