HYDE-ADDISON WAITLIST

[Anonymous]

Sorry to be dense but does this mean that pre-K 4 kids started school and disenrolled or just that the school’s projections were off? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. We’re a Petworth family at Hyde.

How is the commute? Do you do before or aftercare? How has your experience been with the school? If we got a spot it would be for prek4

We don't do before or aftercare and the commute is about 20-25 minutes depending on which route. We've been taking the Parkway this year and it's been super easy. Usually make it door to door in 18-22 minutes. I think there's a big difference on when you hit the Parkway though. We leave our house right around 8:05am.

I live around Petworth and tested the commute pre-pandemic. It was 45-50 minutes leaving between 7:45-8:15. I’m sure that’s way different now, but we decided the quality of life compromise in such a long commute wasn’t worth the difference from our neighborhood school for lower elementary. We’ll reevaluate in a few years, but I wanted to offer the alternate perspective. Though I will say having the high school pathway issue resolved is a huge peace of mind.

This. You need to look at pre-pandemic commute. No way would I do this for Hyde and the middle and high school feeder. Move to the inner burbs and your kids will go to much better schools the whole way and your commute to work in the city would be less than 45-50 minutes.

[Anonymous]

. No way would I do this for Hyde and the middle and high school feeder. Move to the inner burbs and your kids will go to much better schools the whole way and your commute to work in the city would be less than 45-50 minutes.



Just curious, PP, since it will help me (not OP) understand the decision-making, would you do it for a JKLM or still recommend inner burbs? thx!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:. No way would I do this for Hyde and the middle and high school feeder. Move to the inner burbs and your kids will go to much better schools the whole way and your commute to work in the city would be less than 45-50 minutes.

Just curious, PP, since it will help me (not OP) understand the decision-making, would you do it for a JKLM or still recommend inner burbs? thx!

No I would not if you are planning on moving for middle anyway. You realize that it’s not just the daily commute 2 times a day right? Everything and all the activities and events will be at or near the school. All the families live in upper NW while you live far away as the OOB family. The kids will not be going to play at your place. You will be doing ALOT of driving if you want your child and your family to be part of the community.

Deal and Wilson are not great schools. Sure they are the best DCPS middle and high school in the city. But the bar in DC is low. Much better middle and high schools in the inner burbs. Plus, there is tracking at the elementary level too with with AAP, G & T, etc..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:. No way would I do this for Hyde and the middle and high school feeder. Move to the inner burbs and your kids will go to much better schools the whole way and your commute to work in the city would be less than 45-50 minutes.

Just curious, PP, since it will help me (not OP) understand the decision-making, would you do it for a JKLM or still recommend inner burbs? thx!

No I would not if you are planning on moving for middle anyway. You realize that it’s not just the daily commute 2 times a day right? Everything and all the activities and events will be at or near the school. All the families live in upper NW while you live far away as the OOB family. The kids will not be going to play at your place. You will be doing ALOT of driving if you want your child and your family to be part of the community.

Deal and Wilson are not great schools. Sure they are the best DCPS middle and high school in the city. But the bar in DC is low. Much better middle and high schools in the inner burbs. Plus, there is tracking at the elementary level too with with AAP, G & T, etc..

+1. If my DC seemed like they would be well served at Deal/Wilson (i.e., not more than a year or two above grade level in anything), then I’d do maybe 2 years of that commute to secure the feeder rights. But the Wilson feeders are not better enough academically from the good EOTP DCPS schools to spend 1.5-2 hours in the car for your entire elementary years. What those schools are is whiter, so families that can’t afford to move to Ward 3 can at least feel secure that their kids are getting “that” kind of education. That my friends, is what we call gentrification.

[Anonymous]

Wow. It’s never taken us longer than 30 minutes to get to Hyde from petworth. And that was with an accident that rerouted traffic. This is our 3rd year driving there.

[Anonymous]

My husband commuted to Ballston from Petworth until COVID hit and would go to the allergist every few weeks in Georgetown. I just asked and he said it was 40 minutes on average.

[Anonymous]

Ok well I guess it depends on what part of Petworth you live in but it’s 20 minutes for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok well I guess it depends on what part of Petworth you live in but it’s 20 minutes for us.

Girl, you know Petworth ain’t that big.

[Anonymous]

Exactly. I don’t know why it’s taking people 40 minutes to get to Georgetown from here but whatever.

[Anonymous]

It's 11-12 min from U and 14th St for what that's worth

[Anonymous]

Do the IB and OOB families generally travel crosstown for playdates/birthday parties?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well I guess it depends on what part of Petworth you live in but it’s 20 minutes for us.

Girl, you know Petworth ain’t that big.

Lol. True. But depending on which cross streets you’ve got to navigate i can see how different Petworth families would have different commuting times.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok well I guess it depends on what part of Petworth you live in but it’s 20 minutes for us.

Girl, you know Petworth ain’t that big.

Lol. True. But depending on which cross streets you’ve got to navigate i can see how different Petworth families would have different commuting times.

As someone who lives on the eastern side of Petworth and knowing how slow east/west travel is, I could imagine it being much closer if you live on the west side of the neighborhood.