school districts in VA/MD with affordable housing
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Anonymous
| Mixed quality areas like silver spring, Takoma and Springfield are your best bet. GL providing an avg existence and expecting elite results |
Anonymous
Silver Spring around Forest Glen metro. |
Anonymous
will do! |
Anonymous
will tour the area today, thank you |
Anonymous
These are more specific areas, the Northwood, Blair and Einstein clusters. You can see what suits your budget and commute. https://www.redfin.com/school/109390/MD/Silver-Spring/Northwood-High-School/filter/property-type=house https://www.redfin.com/school/145157/MD/Silver-Spring/Montgomery-Blair-High-School/filter/property-type=house https://www.redfin.com/school/134958/MD/Kensington/Albert-Einstein-High-School/filter/property-type=house |
Anonymous
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Here’s a brick colonial single family home within your budget in Arlington’s Westover neighborhood. Swanson middle school and Yorktown HS. A small commercial street of shops and cafes is walkable. Decent driving commute for you or Orange Line Metro to Farragut West (near Dupont Circle).
https://www.homes.com/homes-for-sale/?bb=02y2zt-90H7s5rlE&sv=1&ugl=1 |
Anonymous
I posted the wrong link above. Here’s the correct link for the above house in Arlington/Westover: https://www.homes.com/property/5852-14th-rd-n-arlington-va/f7bjq01lyevzd/ |
Anonymous
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As others have noted, area around FG metro.
Easy red line commute. If you really are thinking Ivies, the kids need to do a lot of extra-curricular activities and the area is convenient to 495 and 16th so you can get to places around the DMV. If your kids are smart enough, they might get into Blair magnet (with the benefit of an easy commute) and have a non-zero chance of an Ivy or equivalent. If not, you end up with a good cohort at Einstein where you can standout and be competitive. |
Anonymous
| Burke. |
Anonymous
"are you at?" Oh yeah, this mom's kids are getting into Ivies. |
Anonymous
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Can it be an apartment or condo? Can your kids share a bedroom? If so, there are lots of possibilities. Since you need to get to Dupont, I would look at buildings near the red line, ideally where they can apply to the Montgomery Blair magnet https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/high/magnet-science
Your options are wider if your kids are the type who will focus and not be overly influenced by their classmates' bad behavior--then you just need a school that has some percentage of high-performing and motivated students. If instead you have the type of kids who gravitate towards their worst-behaved or laziest classmates, then you need to find a district that has very few of those kids, and those places tend to be very expensive, especially if they are within an easy commute from central DC. |
Anonymous
+1 Richard Montgomery or Rockville districts |
Anonymous
| If they are very motivated and you are willing to help them do activities outside of school, stay in your current home until both kids are in at Hardy, then move near the Stadium-Armory metro. The kids can take the D6 bus to Hardy (it's a long ride but that's ok...you can drive them part or all of the way sometimes). For high school, they could apply to MacArthur with a transfer preference (if that's still offered), selective high schools, or do IB at Eastern. A hotshot from a Title I school will stand out more than a kid in the top 10% of the class at Blair or Einstein or even one of the W schools. Or stay where you are until you see how the first kid does in the high school lottery and then move to MD or VA the summer before 9th grade. Also, did you look into BASIS? |
Anonymous
| Hands down — Wheaton. Incredible opportunity to get into high ranked colleges. The school is great (magnet bio/engineering) and their matriculation list is unbelievable (MIT, Stanford, Duke, Ivy’s — they are all there). |
Anonymous
Such a hard commute from HoCo to DuPont circle |