
Is it possible to live in Chevy Chase DC and send our kid to public School Chevy Chase MD? or even if we lived at the border of DC and MD in DC, can our child go to the montgomery county school? |
there was an article in the post at the end of last school yr about this and BCC (HS). They were discontinuing this practice (DC people would be paying). I have heard of a couple of DC kids getting into middle school (and paying something like 12K/yr). I do not know of anyone who has done this with elementary schools as they are crowded. |
pp- i meant that the Dc kids were paying out of state tuition, and this is being dc'd to not have any DC kids in BCC |
Why would you want to?! What is your in-boundary school? vs. What is your overcrowded Moco target? Have a look at this (and pay careful attention to the demographic drill-down) before you make any decisions: http://www.schoolinfosystem.org/archives/2007/10/a_different_loo.php If your child is caucasian, then odds are the best education is actually in DC. |
There was a discussion of this very recently:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/36909.page |
You're assuming that "Maryland" is a fair proxy for MoCo (or, even sillier, for Whitman/BCC feeders). It's obviously not, so the charts you pedantically point to are worthless for addressing the question whether a child, white or not, is likely to get a better education in upper NW DC or just across the border. |
Sorry, but the last line of this post is the silliest thing I've ever heard. The schools in the area the poster mentioned are: Lafayette (the in-boundary school for CC DC) and Rosemary Hills/CCES or Somerset (the in boundary schools for Chevy Chase MD, just over the DC line). At the very best, I think you could say that the education at the elementary level is similar. Although the MCPS system has a formal commitment to differentiation which DCPS does not and at the upper elementary levels, MCPS provides instrumental and choral music education which DCPS does not. As well CCES has a tv studio kids get to work in and is a science/math magnet school. Also at the elem. level MCPS has a formal structure for differentiated math (i.e. in 3rd grade you can take 3rd or 4th grade math, etc.) Plus, CCES has the cluster's application by admission highly gifted center. DCPS doesn't have these types of programs. For middle school, Westland has been a IB school longer than Deal (which is just starting down this road, and is the in boundary school for CC DC). At the high school level, I personally think BCC is much stronger than Wilson -- it has both AP and IB classes (Wilson is not offering the IB program at present, even though this is offered at Deal, its feeder). I personally think that the whole "if your kids are white, they will do well" argument is suspect on so many levels, but that's another thread that I don't have the energy for..... |
Do you HAVE a better comparison? With better data? Or are you just speculating? |
A clarification -- 3 DC elementary schools serve Chevy Chase, DC: Lafayette, Murch and Janney. |
We wanted to live in DC because work would be closer. as far as schools are concerned, from all the research we have done, elementary DCPS are good, but the middle and HS level is a problem and we did not want to struggle to find schools at that level. many parents have taken their kids out and put them in private schools at that level, and we couldn't afford that with three kids.so it looks like out of state would be hard to do! |