How is Monocacy ES? (Poolesville/Dickerson)

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody! Me & my family have been looking for a new house in a more quiet & safer area. We currently live near Gaithersburg, and feel like it does not fill our boxes at all, as we kind of regret moving here few years back.

We have had multiple packages stolen and attempted car break ins over 15+ times in the past 4-5 months, and our child’s elementary school is doing horribly with test scores and such. Plus, we also wanted some land and peace, so we found a house in the AG reserve, north of Poolesville.

We have kids, so schools are a very important factor for us (Pre-k & 2nd.) The house we are pretty sure about buying is zoned for Monocacy ES in Dickerson(?) near fredco line. I did research on the school and turns out the FARMS rate is nearly 30%. Im not a classist or against poor people (before people want to say things) but we just thought that Poolesville was one of the if not the wealthiest communities in MOCO. Other than that the school seems OK. Another question is, is the area MAGA? Driving around with my family we got kind of a “trailery redneck” vibe which is fine, but we just want to know to generalize the area.

If you have any experience with the school itself please comment down below or give some more insight of the area! Thank you!

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[Anonymous]

Wow that’s a lot of assumptions and comments. Maybe you aren’t built for the AG reserve. You hate having the Gaithersburg crime but yet you are worried that the ag reserve is filled with folks who might be struggling and can’t afford the huge houses that have been built and therefore MAGA is the problem. I’m not sure we in the Ag reserve want people so judgy. You are sooooo MoCo. Before anyone jumps on my butt I live in one of those super expensive homes but raise my child to treat every person exactly the same regardless of their income or political stance. Perhaps you should get off the computer and spend time in the community. Look up events etc.

If I look beyond your ridiculous comments, here are the facts. Monocacy is a great small elementary school. Actually those in Poolesville have a choice of the elementary school in town or Monocacy. I’ve heard parents say the school treats your kids like family.

You will feed into John Poole Middle School and then our course Poolesville high school.

There are many people who are liberals (with 86-47 flags) and many who are conservatives. (MAGA = make America great again shouldn’t that be what we all want?) again, it’s a blend of everything in the ag reserve including many hard working farmers who might need help sometimes.

Oh and the wealthiest area would be Potomac or closer to DC.