best school on the hill from K on

[Anonymous]

Maury and Brent?

[Anonymous]

I prefer Troll Academy. It's located between "Go" and "Away!"

[Anonymous]

Depends if you care about where it feeds.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I hit send too soon. Definitely not a troll.

We live on the hill and currently enrolled and very happy at miner. We rent and are looking to buy before 3 year old enters K.

I feel like everyone is obsessed with brent.

Maury has a good reputation and will be brand new.

LT is continually improving

I truthfully don't know much about peabody/watkins.

just thinking out loud before houses start listing this spring!

[Anonymous]

Elementary almost all the schools are fine at this point

Middle School I would try to buy in-bound for Stuart Hobson

High School Eastern isn't quite there but it could be in 10+ years. Also for high school there are test-in options

So to reiterate middle school is your biggest concern. Stuart Hobson is fine Jefferson is border line and Elliot Hine is still a long way away

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elementary almost all the schools are fine at this point

Middle School I would try to buy in-bound for Stuart Hobson

High School Eastern isn't quite there but it could be in 10+ years. Also for high school there are test-in options

So to reiterate middle school is your biggest concern. Stuart Hobson is fine Jefferson is border line and Elliot Hine is still a long way away

This. Personally I would pick LT.

[Anonymous]

It depends what you want of course. Maury, Brent, Ludlow and Tyler Spanish immersion are all solid in-boundary choices these days. Some in-boundary parents are also bullish on Watkins.

But each of these schools has its ups and downs, mostly ups but certainly not all.

Brent is getting crowded with no plan to expand the building in place due to DCPS intransigence, possibly for years to come. My kid gets pulled out for extra instruction in a windowless supply closet, and there are 28 kids in his 1st grade class (unheard of before this year). We're happy with the school, but I'm sure I'd have been happy with the others on my list, too. Jefferson Academy middle school very iffy despite the hype.

Maury's new head has a really hard act to follow and 2 semesters in trailers at Eliot-Hine has taken its toll. Middle school not even iffy yet.

Ludlow still has a good many poor kids with many needs in the upper grades, without the dough for PTA-financed teachers aides or "floater" teachers across grades yet (Maury and Brent have the money). But Ludlow has an unusually dynamic and effective young principal, a great deal of momentum and a middle school more (most?) neighborhood parents are OK with at the end of the rainbow.

You can't lose, OP, just find a house you like in-boundary for one of these schools and buy or rent it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary almost all the schools are fine at this point

Middle School I would try to buy in-bound for Stuart Hobson

High School Eastern isn't quite there but it could be in 10+ years. Also for high school there are test-in options

So to reiterate middle school is your biggest concern. Stuart Hobson is fine Jefferson is border line and Elliot Hine is still a long way away

This. Personally I would pick LT.

Same. My kids are at Brent and we are very happy with it. But if I were in OP’s shoes I would buy IB for LT because 1. Cheaper houses and 2. SH feed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends what you want of course. Maury, Brent, Ludlow and Tyler Spanish immersion are all solid in-boundary choices these days. Some in-boundary parents are also bullish on Watkins.

But each of these schools has its ups and downs, mostly ups but certainly not all.

Brent is getting crowded with no plan to expand the building in place due to DCPS intransigence, possibly for years to come. My kid gets pulled out for extra instruction in a windowless supply closet, and there are 28 kids in his 1st grade class (unheard of before this year). We're happy with the school, but I'm sure I'd have been happy with the others on my list, too. Jefferson Academy middle school very iffy despite the hype.

Maury's new head has a really hard act to follow and 2 semesters in trailers at Eliot-Hine has taken its toll. Middle school not even iffy yet.

Ludlow still has a good many poor kids with many needs in the upper grades, without the dough for PTA-financed teachers aides or "floater" teachers across grades yet (Maury and Brent have the money). But Ludlow has an unusually dynamic and effective young principal, a great deal of momentum and a middle school more (most?) neighborhood parents are OK with at the end of the rainbow.

You can't lose, OP, just find a house you like in-boundary for one of these schools and buy or rent it.

I haven't noticed that at all! Ready to move back to our beautiful building, but my child has had a great experience for the past 2 years.

[Anonymous]

School within school is best but you can't buy a home that guarantees it.

[Anonymous]

Maybe, lovely school not much in the way of rigor in the upper grades for either ELA or math. You really have to provide it at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary almost all the schools are fine at this point

Middle School I would try to buy in-bound for Stuart Hobson

High School Eastern isn't quite there but it could be in 10+ years. Also for high school there are test-in options

So to reiterate middle school is your biggest concern. Stuart Hobson is fine Jefferson is border line and Elliot Hine is still a long way away

This. Personally I would pick LT.

Same. My kids are at Brent and we are very happy with it. But if I were in OP’s shoes I would buy IB for LT because 1. Cheaper houses and 2. SH feed.

Not much cheaper! Our modest in-boundary 4-bedroom a block from Ludlow just appraised for 1.3 mill. We bought it/renovated it for less than half that 10 years back.

[Anonymous]

Who keeps trying to sell the principal at LT. He is neither dynamic nor effective. He has an effective team supporting him but he came in green and rode on the wave of his predecessors. Call it what it is. Nonetheless it is a good choice if you can't get into the top contenders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps trying to sell the principal at LT. He is neither dynamic nor effective. He has an effective team supporting him but he came in green and rode on the wave of his predecessors. Call it what it is. Nonetheless it is a good choice if you can't get into the top contenders.

He was on a panel of principal candidates for our school and I liked him the best. Although that may be because the other candidates were alarmingly bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps trying to sell the principal at LT. He is neither dynamic nor effective. He has an effective team supporting him but he came in green and rode on the wave of his predecessors. Call it what it is. Nonetheless it is a good choice if you can't get into the top contenders.

At least fools are rushing into Ludlow, which didn't exactly happen under his predecessors. The IB percentage has spiked since the guy arrived, making this the first school year that Ludlow isn't Title 1. The status help the program attract neighborhood families and light a fire under the PTA to kick fundraising into a higher gear. I want the teachers aids that Maury and Brent get with the hundreds of thousands their parents raise.

Ludlow may not be the "best school on the Hill" but the status quo is working for a lot of us. It beats going private, spending a stupid amount on a house to crack JKLM or crowded Brent, schlepping to distant charters or moving to the burbs.