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Anonymous wrote:Where did the Marriott’s all go? Holton, Norwood?

STA.

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree with Landon poster that the $6-8M homeowners are, like the rest of us, sending their children to a range of local private schools for all the reasons listed here’s by other parents. And, yes, there are plenty of ultra wealthy at Big3/5 too. It’s just a range. What I’m calling BS on, however, is that there is any statically significant number of such families sending their child to publics IN THIS AREA (looking at your Beverly Hills poster). Do not believe that that is happening in this area for a single minute.

Totally agree. I live in 20817 Bethesda. Virtually nobody who lives in even a 3 million dollar + home does public in our area. At our country club close to 90% of the member kids go to private schools.

Why have all this money and send your kids( the most important people in your world) to a government run school?

This!

My neighborhood has homes 2.5M-6M and I don’t know anyone who sends their kids public. The range is Big 3 to small catholic, and all types of private schools between. I do know a few families at the country club who have their kids in public schools, usually a selective public or a highly regarded one. Some of those families will do boarding school for high school though. Wealthy people spend their money on their kids and that means private school, lots of extracurriculars, sleep away camps, good quality childcare (often nanny or SAHM). Not all of them buy flashy cars or clothes, but nearly all spend on their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Where did the Marriott’s all go? Holton, Norwood?

St. Albans. Marriott Hall named after them.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a sizable number of families that have significant wealth that don't live in the $8M mansions in Normanstone-Woodley. They live in their "normal" $2M homes in AU Park, Chevy Chase, Kent, Berkeley, Spring Valley that they bought when their kids were younger and have stayed in their homes. One parent is a big law parter bringing in $2M+ a year for over a decade, the other is a SAHM or works for a non-profit/NGO/school/university. They have 2-3 kids attending private school, donate regularly to the school(s), have a second home that they don't need to rent out, and generally live unremarkable lives. The families that splash out aren't necessarily the wealthiest in DC--that's just not the DC vibe. Educational pedigree and low key striver are the hallmarks of this set.

Blah blah blah. Every city has this low key wealthy demographics. We're not talking wealthy. We're talking about genuinely rich. Maybe they only have a 4-5M house in DC but they'll have a 10 M house on Nantucket. Plus a 25M house in Miami. And Aspen. And London. There's an entire different milieu of wealth that most of you have no real exposure to and have no real idea how they live.

Look, having 10M in the bank and a 2M house in CC plus a 1M summer house on Cape Cod (maybe now worth closer to 2M but you paid 1M for it ten years ago) is entirely different from having a net worth in the hundreds of millions into billions. Even just 100M is wholly different from low key gentry Chevy Chase.

The very wealthiest DC family I know inherited about a billion. They live in a lovely, but not $10 million, home in Spring Valley. But that's just one of their homes around the world. Their children have gone to three private schools in the area, which I will not name because I wouldn't dream of outing them. However, none of them went to STA, NCS, or Sidwell. The truly generational rich are much less striving than the law firm partner class.

This is one anecdote. I know 3 billionaire or very near families and all of their kids go or went to the schools above.

Sure, Jan.

If you don’t know you better ask someone.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a sizable number of families that have significant wealth that don't live in the $8M mansions in Normanstone-Woodley. They live in their "normal" $2M homes in AU Park, Chevy Chase, Kent, Berkeley, Spring Valley that they bought when their kids were younger and have stayed in their homes. One parent is a big law parter bringing in $2M+ a year for over a decade, the other is a SAHM or works for a non-profit/NGO/school/university. They have 2-3 kids attending private school, donate regularly to the school(s), have a second home that they don't need to rent out, and generally live unremarkable lives. The families that splash out aren't necessarily the wealthiest in DC--that's just not the DC vibe. Educational pedigree and low key striver are the hallmarks of this set.

Blah blah blah. Every city has this low key wealthy demographics. We're not talking wealthy. We're talking about genuinely rich. Maybe they only have a 4-5M house in DC but they'll have a 10 M house on Nantucket. Plus a 25M house in Miami. And Aspen. And London. There's an entire different milieu of wealth that most of you have no real exposure to and have no real idea how they live.

Look, having 10M in the bank and a 2M house in CC plus a 1M summer house on Cape Cod (maybe now worth closer to 2M but you paid 1M for it ten years ago) is entirely different from having a net worth in the hundreds of millions into billions. Even just 100M is wholly different from low key gentry Chevy Chase.

The very wealthiest DC family I know inherited about a billion. They live in a lovely, but not $10 million, home in Spring Valley. But that's just one of their homes around the world. Their children have gone to three private schools in the area, which I will not name because I wouldn't dream of outing them. However, none of them went to STA, NCS, or Sidwell. The truly generational rich are much less striving than the law firm partner class.

This is one anecdote. I know 3 billionaire or very near families and all of their kids go or went to the schools above.

I know a billionaire who sent his children to one of the above schools. His children now refuse to send their children to the above schools

Those schools were probably too academically competitive for them. Burke, Bullis, and Field would have probably been more appropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a sizable number of families that have significant wealth that don't live in the $8M mansions in Normanstone-Woodley. They live in their "normal" $2M homes in AU Park, Chevy Chase, Kent, Berkeley, Spring Valley that they bought when their kids were younger and have stayed in their homes. One parent is a big law parter bringing in $2M+ a year for over a decade, the other is a SAHM or works for a non-profit/NGO/school/university. They have 2-3 kids attending private school, donate regularly to the school(s), have a second home that they don't need to rent out, and generally live unremarkable lives. The families that splash out aren't necessarily the wealthiest in DC--that's just not the DC vibe. Educational pedigree and low key striver are the hallmarks of this set.

Blah blah blah. Every city has this low key wealthy demographics. We're not talking wealthy. We're talking about genuinely rich. Maybe they only have a 4-5M house in DC but they'll have a 10 M house on Nantucket. Plus a 25M house in Miami. And Aspen. And London. There's an entire different milieu of wealth that most of you have no real exposure to and have no real idea how they live.

Look, having 10M in the bank and a 2M house in CC plus a 1M summer house on Cape Cod (maybe now worth closer to 2M but you paid 1M for it ten years ago) is entirely different from having a net worth in the hundreds of millions into billions. Even just 100M is wholly different from low key gentry Chevy Chase.

The very wealthiest DC family I know inherited about a billion. They live in a lovely, but not $10 million, home in Spring Valley. But that's just one of their homes around the world. Their children have gone to three private schools in the area, which I will not name because I wouldn't dream of outing them. However, none of them went to STA, NCS, or Sidwell. The truly generational rich are much less striving than the law firm partner class.

This is one anecdote. I know 3 billionaire or very near families and all of their kids go or went to the schools above.

I know a billionaire who sent his children to one of the above schools. His children now refuse to send their children to the above schools

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Anonymous wrote:There is a sizable number of families that have significant wealth that don't live in the $8M mansions in Normanstone-Woodley. They live in their "normal" $2M homes in AU Park, Chevy Chase, Kent, Berkeley, Spring Valley that they bought when their kids were younger and have stayed in their homes. One parent is a big law parter bringing in $2M+ a year for over a decade, the other is a SAHM or works for a non-profit/NGO/school/university. They have 2-3 kids attending private school, donate regularly to the school(s), have a second home that they don't need to rent out, and generally live unremarkable lives. The families that splash out aren't necessarily the wealthiest in DC--that's just not the DC vibe. Educational pedigree and low key striver are the hallmarks of this set.

Blah blah blah. Every city has this low key wealthy demographics. We're not talking wealthy. We're talking about genuinely rich. Maybe they only have a 4-5M house in DC but they'll have a 10 M house on Nantucket. Plus a 25M house in Miami. And Aspen. And London. There's an entire different milieu of wealth that most of you have no real exposure to and have no real idea how they live.

Look, having 10M in the bank and a 2M house in CC plus a 1M summer house on Cape Cod (maybe now worth closer to 2M but you paid 1M for it ten years ago) is entirely different from having a net worth in the hundreds of millions into billions. Even just 100M is wholly different from low key gentry Chevy Chase.

The very wealthiest DC family I know inherited about a billion. They live in a lovely, but not $10 million, home in Spring Valley. But that's just one of their homes around the world. Their children have gone to three private schools in the area, which I will not name because I wouldn't dream of outing them. However, none of them went to STA, NCS, or Sidwell. The truly generational rich are much less striving than the law firm partner class.

This is one anecdote. I know 3 billionaire or very near families and all of their kids go or went to the schools above.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a sizable number of families that have significant wealth that don't live in the $8M mansions in Normanstone-Woodley. They live in their "normal" $2M homes in AU Park, Chevy Chase, Kent, Berkeley, Spring Valley that they bought when their kids were younger and have stayed in their homes. One parent is a big law parter bringing in $2M+ a year for over a decade, the other is a SAHM or works for a non-profit/NGO/school/university. They have 2-3 kids attending private school, donate regularly to the school(s), have a second home that they don't need to rent out, and generally live unremarkable lives. The families that splash out aren't necessarily the wealthiest in DC--that's just not the DC vibe. Educational pedigree and low key striver are the hallmarks of this set.

Blah blah blah. Every city has this low key wealthy demographics. We're not talking wealthy. We're talking about genuinely rich. Maybe they only have a 4-5M house in DC but they'll have a 10 M house on Nantucket. Plus a 25M house in Miami. And Aspen. And London. There's an entire different milieu of wealth that most of you have no real exposure to and have no real idea how they live.

Look, having 10M in the bank and a 2M house in CC plus a 1M summer house on Cape Cod (maybe now worth closer to 2M but you paid 1M for it ten years ago) is entirely different from having a net worth in the hundreds of millions into billions. Even just 100M is wholly different from low key gentry Chevy Chase.

The very wealthiest DC family I know inherited about a billion. They live in a lovely, but not $10 million, home in Spring Valley. But that's just one of their homes around the world. Their children have gone to three private schools in the area, which I will not name because I wouldn't dream of outing them. However, none of them went to STA, NCS, or Sidwell. The truly generational rich are much less striving than the law firm partner class.

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree with Landon poster that the $6-8M homeowners are, like the rest of us, sending their children to a range of local private schools for all the reasons listed here’s by other parents. And, yes, there are plenty of ultra wealthy at Big3/5 too. It’s just a range. What I’m calling BS on, however, is that there is any statically significant number of such families sending their child to publics IN THIS AREA (looking at your Beverly Hills poster). Do not believe that that is happening in this area for a single minute.

Totally agree. I live in 20817 Bethesda. Virtually nobody who lives in even a 3 million dollar + home does public in our area. At our country club close to 90% of the member kids go to private schools.

Why have all this money and send your kids( the most important people in your world) to a government run school?

This!

My neighborhood has homes 2.5M-6M and I don’t know anyone who sends their kids public. The range is Big 3 to small catholic, and all types of private schools between. I do know a few families at the country club who have their kids in public schools, usually a selective public or a highly regarded one. Some of those families will do boarding school for high school though. Wealthy people spend their money on their kids and that means private school, lots of extracurriculars, sleep away camps, good quality childcare (often nanny or SAHM). Not all of them buy flashy cars or clothes, but nearly all spend on their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Many ultra-wealthy people don't care about the brand of high school their kid attends. You'll find the most desperate brand-chasers among the upper-middle class, people who are on the periphery of elite status, but not quite there.

When you live in a $8 million mansion, it doesn't matter where your kid goes to school. They're set.

The richest family I know (worth over $100 million) was heavily sought after by every top school in DC and chose Landon because they liked the campus environment and culture.

Yes this is exactly right. My kids attend a private that is constantly looked down upon on DCUM and it has many astonishingly wealthy families. They aren’t worried about impressing any of the strivers like the people who post frenetically on this board or the college one. I think more than anything having money is of course nice because you can afford very nice things, but really it gives you freedom from constantly worrying about impressing others. You can choose the school that is right for your kids rather than impressing the neighbors.

Anonymous wrote:Where did the Marriott’s all go? Holton, Norwood?

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous, they definitely go to private schools here. The super rich I know go to St. Albans, Landon, NCS, Sidwell, and boarding schools.

Agree with this. My kids are at STA and NCS and I have been to many homes that are worth more than $4 million and countless worth over $2.5.
Most of this money is self-made by highly educated, smart people. Smart people generally (not always of course) have smart kids.
I get the relfex to say "oh, they're all a bunch of trust fund idiots" but no--I find that at these schools they're usually a pair of Harvard law grads with undergrad degrees in math and history from Stanford.

The conclusion from this thread is that some wealthy people send kids to STA/NCS, others send their kids to minor private schools, some send theirs to public schools.

FYI I wouldn't necessarily place $4M houses in the category of the superwealthy. That's law firm partner bracket.

$10+M house and now you're talking. That's successful founder of a tech company that sold out to Amazon.

There simply aren't that many $10million+ homes in the DMV. An even smaller number have school-aged children.

Anonymous wrote:100% agree with Landon poster that the $6-8M homeowners are, like the rest of us, sending their children to a range of local private schools for all the reasons listed here’s by other parents. And, yes, there are plenty of ultra wealthy at Big3/5 too. It’s just a range. What I’m calling BS on, however, is that there is any statically significant number of such families sending their child to publics IN THIS AREA (looking at your Beverly Hills poster). Do not believe that that is happening in this area for a single minute.

Anonymous wrote:Where did the Marriott’s all go? Holton, Norwood?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a sizable number of families that have significant wealth that don't live in the $8M mansions in Normanstone-Woodley. They live in their "normal" $2M homes in AU Park, Chevy Chase, Kent, Berkeley, Spring Valley that they bought when their kids were younger and have stayed in their homes. One parent is a big law parter bringing in $2M+ a year for over a decade, the other is a SAHM or works for a non-profit/NGO/school/university. They have 2-3 kids attending private school, donate regularly to the school(s), have a second home that they don't need to rent out, and generally live unremarkable lives. The families that splash out aren't necessarily the wealthiest in DC--that's just not the DC vibe. Educational pedigree and low key striver are the hallmarks of this set.

Blah blah blah. Every city has this low key wealthy demographics. We're not talking wealthy. We're talking about genuinely rich. Maybe they only have a 4-5M house in DC but they'll have a 10 M house on Nantucket. Plus a 25M house in Miami. And Aspen. And London. There's an entire different milieu of wealth that most of you have no real exposure to and have no real idea how they live.

Look, having 10M in the bank and a 2M house in CC plus a 1M summer house on Cape Cod (maybe now worth closer to 2M but you paid 1M for it ten years ago) is entirely different from having a net worth in the hundreds of millions into billions. Even just 100M is wholly different from low key gentry Chevy Chase.

The very wealthiest DC family I know inherited about a billion. They live in a lovely, but not $10 million, home in Spring Valley. But that's just one of their homes around the world. Their children have gone to three private schools in the area, which I will not name because I wouldn't dream of outing them. However, none of them went to STA, NCS, or Sidwell. The truly generational rich are much less striving than the law firm partner class.

This is one anecdote. I know 3 billionaire or very near families and all of their kids go or went to the schools above.

Sure, Jan.