Is Lake Barcroft a hidden gem?

[Anonymous]

This is for sure a realtor.

Funny how there is such low inventory yet there are a lot of houses for sale there that just came on this week.


Hmmm. Why are they leaving?????

[Anonymous]

Lots of listings there with price reductions too....38+ and 25+ days on market. Not a great idea I guess!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is for sure a realtor.

OP here - 100% not a realtor. Some of you people are delusional.

[Anonymous]

There a lot of real estate buffs on this site. It is all kind of interesting: How a neighborhood can go from most desirable to just okay (or vice versa) in a few years.

I had no idea Lake Barcroft even existed until I went to some kids birthday party when I was a kid. It’s hidden away behind all the sprawl and garden apartments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There a lot of real estate buffs on this site. It is all kind of interesting: How a neighborhood can go from most desirable to just okay (or vice versa) in a few years.

I had no idea Lake Barcroft even existed until I went to some kids birthday party when I was a kid. It’s hidden away behind all the sprawl and garden apartments.

Aka poor URMs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools are not good, but neighborhood is nice.

This is the issue at present. Back in the day, several decades ago, it was a highly desirable area with very good schools. Congressional School is a good K-8 private nearby (on Sleepy Hollow), but one would then need to transfer DC somewhere else for HS.

I heard that back in the 60s and 70s the public schools in the Lake Barcroft were among the best and wealthiest in all of FCPS. The crew team even won the Henley Royal Regatta.

There’s still a contingent of wealthy kids from the Lake who go to the public schools. It’s probably under 50% though. Feel free to correct if wrong.

In the 60s and 70s there weren't huge differences among the public high schools in FCPS. There were differences, just not big ones like now.

The Stuart crew won the Henley Royal Regatta in 1968.

The enrollment at Stuart started to decline in the 70s. The School Board changed the boundaries and redistricted part of then-Jefferson to Stuart. But for that boundary change, they probably would have turned Stuart, not Jefferson, into the STEM magnet school in the 80s. Immigrants started pouring into the area by the mid to late 80s.

There are affluent kids who live in the Lake Barcroft/Sleepy Hollow area who go to Justice, and Lake Barcroft isn't the only expensive neighborhood that feeds into Justice. The majority of kids who attend Justice, though, are low-income kids who live in the garden apartments near Seven Corners, Culmore, and Bailey's Crossroads. Decades ago, it was mostly singles without kids who lived in those apartments; now there can be multiple families living in a single apartment.

[Anonymous]

I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout.

Do tell what you mean by "schools are terrible"?

Were the Justice High students admitted this year or last year to Princeton, American, Notre Dame, Yale, Syracuse, Cal Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, Wesleyan, Penn State, UVA, William & Mary, UCLA, JMU, GW, Georgia, Smith, Clemson, Rutgers, USC, Virginia Tech, Middlebury, Georgetown, Maryland, Pitt, and W&L not served well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout.

Do tell what you mean by "schools are terrible"?

Were the Justice High students admitted this year or last year to Princeton, American, Notre Dame, Yale, Syracuse, Cal Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, Wesleyan, Penn State, UVA, William & Mary, UCLA, JMU, GW, Georgia, Smith, Clemson, Rutgers, USC, Virginia Tech, Middlebury, Georgetown, Maryland, Pitt, and W&L not served well?

College admissions isn’t worth my kid having to deal with fights, gangs & risk of not being prepared for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout.

Do tell what you mean by "schools are terrible"?

Were the Justice High students admitted this year or last year to Princeton, American, Notre Dame, Yale, Syracuse, Cal Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, Wesleyan, Penn State, UVA, William & Mary, UCLA, JMU, GW, Georgia, Smith, Clemson, Rutgers, USC, Virginia Tech, Middlebury, Georgetown, Maryland, Pitt, and W&L not served well?

College admissions isn’t worth my kid having to deal with fights, gangs & risk of not being prepared for college.

Yeah, because MS-13 has a special recruitment effort to sign up Biff and Muffy this spring.

And Justice has IB, just like Robinson and Marshall. It's the exact same program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout.

Do tell what you mean by "schools are terrible"?

Were the Justice High students admitted this year or last year to Princeton, American, Notre Dame, Yale, Syracuse, Cal Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, Wesleyan, Penn State, UVA, William & Mary, UCLA, JMU, GW, Georgia, Smith, Clemson, Rutgers, USC, Virginia Tech, Middlebury, Georgetown, Maryland, Pitt, and W&L not served well?

College admissions isn’t worth my kid having to deal with fights, gangs & risk of not being prepared for college.

Yeah, because MS-13 has a special recruitment effort to sign up Biff and Muffy this spring.

And Justice has IB, just like Robinson and Marshall. It's the exact same program.

But has worse pass rates & scores.

I went to high FARMs schools myself by the way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because MS-13 has a special recruitment effort to sign up Biff and Muffy this spring.

Yeah, recruitment efforts are my biggest concerns with gangs too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout.

Do tell what you mean by "schools are terrible"?

Were the Justice High students admitted this year or last year to Princeton, American, Notre Dame, Yale, Syracuse, Cal Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, Wesleyan, Penn State, UVA, William & Mary, UCLA, JMU, GW, Georgia, Smith, Clemson, Rutgers, USC, Virginia Tech, Middlebury, Georgetown, Maryland, Pitt, and W&L not served well?

College admissions isn’t worth my kid having to deal with fights, gangs & risk of not being prepared for college.

Yeah, because MS-13 has a special recruitment effort to sign up Biff and Muffy this spring.

And Justice has IB, just like Robinson and Marshall. It's the exact same program.

But has worse pass rates & scores.

I went to high FARMs schools myself by the way.

Irrelevant unless you can show the same IB kid is actually less likely to pass at Justice.

And lots of us went to higher FARMS schools; we just don't think we're hot sh*t now because our kid goes to Sidwell or Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools are not good, but neighborhood is nice.

This is the issue at present. Back in the day, several decades ago, it was a highly desirable area with very good schools. Congressional School is a good K-8 private nearby (on Sleepy Hollow), but one would then need to transfer DC somewhere else for HS.

I heard that back in the 60s and 70s the public schools in the Lake Barcroft were among the best and wealthiest in all of FCPS. The crew team even won the Henley Royal Regatta.

There’s still a contingent of wealthy kids from the Lake who go to the public schools. It’s probably under 50% though. Feel free to correct if wrong.

The '60's and '70's. You don't say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout.

Do tell what you mean by "schools are terrible"?

Were the Justice High students admitted this year or last year to Princeton, American, Notre Dame, Yale, Syracuse, Cal Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, Wesleyan, Penn State, UVA, William & Mary, UCLA, JMU, GW, Georgia, Smith, Clemson, Rutgers, USC, Virginia Tech, Middlebury, Georgetown, Maryland, Pitt, and W&L not served well?

Good schools should be teaching students to put the punctuation inside the quotation marks.