Moving to Montgomery County
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Anonymous
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I know nothing about the area - help please! Do any of these stand out as great school in great areas? Any to avoid? We are trying to pick a place to live, quickly, and don't have much to base it on other than the local schools, and these are the ones that seem to be associated with the properties the realtor sent over. We're looking to rent a 3br townhouse for under 2500 with less than an hour commute door to door to DC.
Woodlin Brooke Grove Beall Travilah Flora M. Singer Beall Oakland Terrace Westover Forest Knolls |
Anonymous
| I can tell you that people I know are very happy with Woodlin, Oakland Terrace, Flora Singer, and Forest Knolls. (we live in the Forest Knolls neighborhood but my kids attended magnets and are now in middle school anyway). These are all Silver Spring schools in safe neighborhoods with lots of kids, family friendly, close-in/close to metro. for your price range I think these would all be good choices. You can probably get a whole house rental rather than townhouse in the Forest Knolls neighborhood. |
Anonymous
| Travilah is good. As are Dufief and Stone Mill and Darnestown, which are nearby. Try Colllege Gardens in historic part of Rockville too. |
Anonymous
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Woodley Gardens rental in Rockville.
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/apa/3527489159.html |
Anonymous
| I work in the school system and those are all nice schools. I would prefer to live in the Forest Knolls, Woodlin, OT/Singer neighborhoods myself. |
Anonymous
| College Gardens is sketchy (good mixed in with very bad) |
Anonymous
| The Silver Spring schools are all good...don't know about the Darnestown/Gburg ones...they are about 45 minutes out compared to the S.S. ones. Have you researched real commute times? I'm not sure the Gaithersburg choices are really going to get you an under-hour average commute. |
Anonymous
| Gaithersburg is far unless you comute off rush hour. Far. |
Anonymous
Huh? What aspects of College Gardens consitutes "very bad"? I have two kids there and think it is great. OP, College Gardens is quite close to Beall which you mentioned..lots of great neighborhoods feed to both.. |
Anonymous
Erm, I don't especially care for Yale Village, but I'd hardly call it "very bad." I like the Woodley Gardens/College Gardens area quite a lot. |
Anonymous
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If you can take metro:
There is a transit system (direct bus route with its' own lane) in final planning stage going from the intersection of Great Seneca/Kentland Blvd. to Shady Grove metro station. It makes Kentland and Quince Orchard Park more desirable communities for people who commute to DC. Schools are strong too. Kentland: Rachel Carlson ES, Lakeland Park MS QOP: Diamond ES, Lakeland Park MS |
Anonymous
What elementary school could possibly have "very bad" in it? It's got the IB Primary Years program and Chinese Immersion. I've never heard anything bad about the school at all. |
Anonymous
| Try the Rockshire development in the Fallsmead/Frost/Wootton pyramid. |
Anonymous
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Co-worker in Oakland Terrace neighborhood. Loves the school and his community. Flora Singer is a brand new school is adjacent neighborhood. Reviews seem to be great so far. Agree with other pps that Silver Spring-just outside the beltway neighborhoods--will get you downtown faster than living in communities north on 270. 270 is a crawl for hours each morning and evening.
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Anonymous
| Go for a jog at night around College Gardens ES. Let me know if you make it out alive..... |