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Anonymous
| Should have moved into Ward 3 and sent your kids to Wilson. Oh well. |
Anonymous
Nah, Wilson gets a lot of kids from SE DC. That's why you hear a lot about disruptive kids on the subway heading home after school. They ride the red line to Gallery Place and then transfer to the green line to get back across the river. I'd buy in upper NW, and then send kids to School Without Walls for HS. |
Anonymous
It's a bit shocking to hear the OP say that she is a realtor and did mounds of research before deciding on Alexandria. Quite a difference from North Arlington, which was the area the OP just missed out on. |
Anonymous
| Seems some of the pp's don't understand. There is the City of Alexandria and then there is Alexandria in Fairfax County. Former generally doesn't have great schools while the latter has some great schools. Same city name but different governments and resources. |
Anonymous
| She said 4 miles south of Old Town. That's about where my neighbors moved away from to get away from the schools. I hope it works out. |
Anonymous
| Don't rule out the city of Alexandria. We've found the school experience excellent. |
Anonymous
I was going to say the same thing. |
Anonymous
Fair enough. My point though stands. OP makes it sound as if they left DC to go to the Langley school district when they moved to an area with worse HS options than DC. |
Anonymous
| We are in bounds for Thomas Jefferson in Fairfax County which was rated the number one high school in the country last year. And no my children didn't go to Maury and I didn't post on Moth. Arlington County is overcrowded and facing redistricting and lots of trailers so I am pretty sure I made the right choice. |
Anonymous
I don't follow this at all. TJ is a selective magnet so you could live anywhere in Arlington or Fairfax and send you kid to TJ if admitted. Arlington has done a great job of renovating its schools. W-L was recently renovated and Yorktown has a brand new building. The school enrollments are also generally lower than at Fairfax schools. I would agree they probably will do some redistricting. |
Anonymous
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Well, I agree that TJ is an excellent high school. BUT. Your child is only in first grade so it is rather unclear whether TJ will be in the picture for your child or not. More than 2,000 really smart kids apply and about 400 get in each year. If TJ does not end up being an option for you ... you are left with either Mount Vernon High School or West Potomac High School. These are perfectly acceptable high schools, but not ones that warrant the trouble of moving.
And if that hopeful scenario of TJ comes true ... your kid is going to have a heck of a commute two times a day. Schools aside, I think the area you chose is a very nice place to live ... great parks and amenities like being close to Old Town and the bike path along the water. You won't be reduced to eating at Applebees unless you so wish. |
Anonymous
| I agree with 10:10 ... better to have a child go to a possibly overcrowded Yorktown than end up at Mount Vernon, all else being equal. I think Yorktown is almost comparable to TJ ... |
Anonymous
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I'd rather go to Wilson than Mount Vernon or West Potomac.
Some of the ES in the Fort Hunt area are nice but the Sandburg/WePo MS/HS combo isn't exactly worth moving out of DC for. And how the heck is someone "in bounds for Thomas Jefferson?" |
Anonymous
| I'd take West Potomac over any DC public high school in a heartbeat. West Potomac is what Wilson would look like if more people in upper NW actually did the public route. |
Anonymous
NP here. Yep, sounds like her all right! She was popular. 
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