Have you moved to get a better in-bound school?

[Anonymous]

If I was renting I would CERTAINLY be willing to move for IB schools I prefer.

[Anonymous]

We played the lottery for two years until our oldest PK kid got into a public charter school that we knew would be good at least through fifth grade. Then we moved inboundary for Deal but still where we could commute to the charter and made the switch once each of our kids reached 6th grade. We feel grateful that everything worked out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:while not as pronounced as it was a few decades ago, there is still an annual migration of people who move to MD & VA every year who don't want to raise their kids in DC fir various reasons but schools is way up there. Go to any street in Bethesda and you will find countless parents and their kids who used to live in DC. The ones in Bethesda, Arlington and McLean all could have afforded NW if they wanted to but made their choices.

I think people are tied into low interest rate mortgages and can’t migrate as easily anymore, or it would still be happening.

[Anonymous]

We left DC all together once our kids started elementary school.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

We moved for the same reason, but from one Montgomery County spot to another. We were renters, scouted out neighborhoods for a year, and then bought in the one we liked best, in terms of schools/walkability/commute.

If you're going to move, I suggest moving out of DC altogether to close-in MD or VA, so your kids can attend good schools in MCPS or FCPS.