The Western Line district is 44.8 percent white. O'Bannon High, the public school closest to Washington School, is 82.3 percent black. Its scores are under Riverside in many, but not all, categories. Elliott Crawford would like to go to Lourdes Elementary, where her cousin and some of her friends go. Nicholas hasn't thought about going to school anywhere else.
Education here is a lot better.
The Crawfords' decision to send Nicholas and Elliott to academically prestigious, 930-student Washington School was made more certain by the fact Jane Crawford has taught social studies there for 24 years. Virtually 100 percent of Washington School's students go on to higher education, the Crawfords said. In Greenville most folks are not anti-public schools. As Greenvillians we want our public schools to work. That's in the best interest of the community.