House budget of $450k. Looking for good schools. Where to buy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone comment on Cameron ES or living in 22303?

Looks like 60% FARMS and 50% Hispanic. So, if you're preparing your child to live a life of Spanish speaking poverty, you should be good. Maybe they can work in the kitchen at the local taco stand.

You are a very ugly person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone comment on Cameron ES or living in 22303?

Looks like 60% FARMS and 50% Hispanic. So, if you're preparing your child to live a life of Spanish speaking poverty, you should be good. Maybe they can work in the kitchen at the local taco stand.

You are out of line.

Would you send your child to an elementary school with those statistics?

My two youngest children attend a school that is 60% Hispanic and 75% FARMS. We have found the teachers to be fantastic, the differentiation to be strong, and have found their classmates to be wonderful kids. The parents I have met, though they may have some financial challenges I don't, want the best for their kids, just like I do. I really hope the above poster is a troll. Otherwise I am eternally grateful my children will never have to set foot in the same school as yours.

I agree with everything the 2nd poster said, though I wouldn't have said the last line (though I understand the feeling). My kids are at a 60% FARMs school that is less than 20% white or Asian (citing these since they seem to be the only "acceptable" demographics for more than a few posters). We love our school, love our teachers and love our kids' friends. We could move if we wanted to, but we choose to live here because we've had such a fantastic experience, so why would we move? Because of demographics numbers? Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

22303 question poster here. We are looking at the long-term...don't have kids yet. Just trying to figure out the neighborhoods and where is good to buy for young families.

Just looked at houses in Hybla Valley and really liked. Seems like a decent amount of house for the high $500, low $600. Just not close to a metro!

[Anonymous]

commuter bus goes through area near cameron es to huntington (don?) metro.

[Anonymous]

Is it really even possible in that area? I've always thought the entire route 1 corridor and the schools in the West Potomac and Mount Vernon pyramids were basically garbage. I'd even be cautious about Kingstowne and the Edison and Hayfield pyramids - a few too many free lunches for my taste. Really, you almost have to get over to the West Springfield pyramid before the schools are much good.

This is ridiculous. You don't know what you're talking about. I live in the Waynewood/Carl Sandburg/West Potomac area, a bit south of Belle Haven. It's a lovely area. Yes, West Potomac is diverse, if you're using "garbage" as code for that. But as far as elementary schools and Carl Sandburg, these draw from neighborhoods of professionals, lobbyists and military families with high expectations of the schools. My kids have gone through the middle school level. Parents are very involved and there are loads of great teachers. Obviously some not so great ones too, as anywhere. There's some variation in the quality of the schools, but none are "garbage." Almost every parent I know is planning to send their kids to West Potomac.

Plus you're close to the river, Old Town and DC.

[Anonymous]

Except you can't touch anything in the OP's price range in the area you just described.