Looking to Buy...Need Advise on Accessible Neighborhoods

[Anonymous]

silver spring schools are terrible here is the list of maryland schools pyramids to go to

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland

[Anonymous]

This list has Blair as #12 and Einstein as #21--not too shabby out of 200+ Maryland high schools, especially since Maryland is consistently one of the top states for schools. I'd take these "terrible" Silver Spring schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assuming Silver Spring would be more convenient for your commute (sorry -- I don't knwo the area too well), definitely go for that over Nova.

I love this place, for example:

http://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/8912-Flower-Ave-20901/home/10959765

This too, and it's even under your budget:

http://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/114-Hamilton-Ave-20901/home/10955010

I'm currently looking in Nova and can assure you that you won't get anything nearly that good for your budget, sadly. I'm looking in the same price range and it's bleak. Sadly Silver Spring would be a 1 hour+ commute for me so it's not really an option.

Flower is a very, very busy street. The Hamilton Ave one is very close to an excellent elementary school.

The Hamilton house is pending, and Highland Elementary is not a great school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:silver spring schools are terrible here is the list of maryland schools pyramids to go to

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland

OP don't listen to the troll...of all the Silver Spring high schools schools, Blair is probably the best, followed by Einstein and Northwood. But all are perfectly fine. Some people are surprised to find gang issues at their pet upcounty schools. Many of the elementary schools are excellent and welcoming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assuming Silver Spring would be more convenient for your commute (sorry -- I don't knwo the area too well), definitely go for that over Nova.

I love this place, for example:

http://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/8912-Flower-Ave-20901/home/10959765

This too, and it's even under your budget:

http://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/114-Hamilton-Ave-20901/home/10955010

I'm currently looking in Nova and can assure you that you won't get anything nearly that good for your budget, sadly. I'm looking in the same price range and it's bleak. Sadly Silver Spring would be a 1 hour+ commute for me so it's not really an option.

Flower is a very, very busy street. The Hamilton Ave one is very close to an excellent elementary school.

The Hamilton house is pending, and Highland Elementary is not a great school.

But the school isn't Highland, it is Highland View. That is a totally different school from Highland, and if you lived there and knew what you were talking about, you would know that.

[Anonymous]

Silver Spring.

Rosemary Hills neighborhood is in the BCC Cluster. Prices have started to creep up there - you might find it a bit over your budget (recent lowest sale prices in the $515K vicinity).

Indian Springs neighborhood - the same schools as Woodmoor, I believe (Highland View, DCC consortium).

I think there are probably more neighborhoods in Silver Spring and Kensington to look at with good schools. You need to really inform yourself re Silver Spring schools. Silver Spring covers a large area, with several different school matriculation patterns. PP who said all Silver Spring schools are bad has no idea what she/he is talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The Hamilton house is pending, and Highland Elementary is not a great school.

But the school isn't Highland, it is Highland View. That is a totally different school from Highland, and if you lived there and knew what you were talking about, you would know that.

Oh I remember being tripped up on this myself - I think one Highland is super bad and the other is okay maybe. But one is really bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Silver Spring.

Rosemary Hills neighborhood is in the BCC Cluster. Prices have started to creep up there - you might find it a bit over your budget (recent lowest sale prices in the $515K vicinity).

Indian Springs neighborhood - the same schools as Woodmoor, I believe (Highland View, DCC consortium).

I think there are probably more neighborhoods in Silver Spring and Kensington to look at with good schools. You need to really inform yourself re Silver Spring schools. Silver Spring covers a large area, with several different school matriculation patterns. PP who said all Silver Spring schools are bad has no idea what she/he is talking about.

Actually, Indian Spring has different schools from Woodmoor. Indian Spring is a great neighborhood, btw. Schools are Highland view ES, SSIMS, and then DCC high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:silver spring schools are terrible here is the list of maryland schools pyramids to go to

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland

OP don't listen to the troll...of all the Silver Spring high schools schools, Blair is probably the best, followed by Einstein and Northwood. But all are perfectly fine. Some people are surprised to find gang issues at their pet upcounty schools. Many of the elementary schools are excellent and welcoming.

You must be smoking the local school drugs if you think Einstein is good.

Read the list and make your own decisions.

[Anonymous]

"Read the list"...what does that even mean? I have been following the MD Schools forum for awhile and the general sentiment about Einstein seems to be that it has really improved over the last 5-10 years. If you have recent evidence to share please do, because the neighborhoods off Georgia near the beltway (Forest Estates, Woodmor, Indian Springs, etc) seem to be pretty nice and as a PP pointed out, both Blair and Einstein seemed to be ranked pretty highly out of more than 200 MD schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Read the list"...what does that even mean? I have been following the MD Schools forum for awhile and the general sentiment about Einstein seems to be that it has really improved over the last 5-10 years. If you have recent evidence to share please do, because the neighborhoods off Georgia near the beltway (Forest Estates, Woodmor, Indian Springs, etc) seem to be pretty nice and as a PP pointed out, both Blair and Einstein seemed to be ranked pretty highly out of more than 200 MD schools.

This is the list of good schools in maryland.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland

You will notice that schools NOT on the list often have a high FARM rate with low greatschools.net ratings.

[Anonymous]

My brother lives in the Highland View school district. Great schools, great neighborhood- lots of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Read the list"...what does that even mean? I have been following the MD Schools forum for awhile and the general sentiment about Einstein seems to be that it has really improved over the last 5-10 years. If you have recent evidence to share please do, because the neighborhoods off Georgia near the beltway (Forest Estates, Woodmor, Indian Springs, etc) seem to be pretty nice and as a PP pointed out, both Blair and Einstein seemed to be ranked pretty highly out of more than 200 MD schools.

There is some person (or maybe a couple of them) with a seemingly personal vendetta against Silver Spring. He or she often posts trying to convince people that no middle class english speakers live in silver spring any more. According to this person (or people), SS is full of rentals stuffed with multiple families of latinos, all teh schools are full of gangs, and everyone should move to bethesda. Or Brookeville - which is only a 20 minute commute to Dupont Circle