Capitol Hill Choices with no car

[Anonymous]

I would love DCUM feedback on what to do. Our IB school is Brent for PK-3. So we realize that there is a good chance we won't get in. We live in Capitol Hill and I work near Farragut West and do not have a car. I am struggling with a list of schools because a) it will be difficult if not impossible to get into the other Capitol Hill DCPS PK-3 programs, b) it will be incredibly difficult to get to some of the good charters without a car.

Anyone else in the same situation? If so, what are you doing? I am struggling to come up with a list of 12 schools.

[Anonymous]

Appletree SW. It's a bit out of your metro commute but close to the SW Waterfront station.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Appletree SW. It's a bit out of your metro commute but close to the SW Waterfront station.

Thanks- it is definitely on my list (it appears to be close to Federal Center metro as well). Any feedback on this particular Appletree location? I noted at EdFest that they are not holding an open house, so I have no idea what the facility will be like or the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Bus to Two Rivers?

[Anonymous]

Stevens early learning is a new school with no boundary preferences close to Farragut. It looks like there is a preference for at risk kids so not sure if you could get in. And a new school so no real sense of how it is.
Friendship PCS?
Apple tree Lincoln Park might be doable depending on how far south you are
Peabody Amidon Bowen or Tyler if you have extra spots
You could also try the CH Montessori swing space although the commute is a bit more involved to Farragut

I think a lot depends on how much you are willing to dedicate to an annoying commute and how much you need a pre-k 3 spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Appletree SW. It's a bit out of your metro commute but close to the SW Waterfront station.

Thanks- it is definitely on my list (it appears to be close to Federal Center metro as well). Any feedback on this particular Appletree location? I noted at EdFest that they are not holding an open house, so I have no idea what the facility will be like or the teachers.

The location is new next year. It's close to L'Enfant too. This year they don't have a SW location, before that they were in trailers at Jefferson, and before that they used extra classrooms at Amidon-Bowen.

You can try Amidon but they have so many IB PK students they took it off the early action list for next year, so your odds are not good (and if they do take OOB kids, it will be ones with good draws...and if you got a good draw, you wouldn't need Amidon because you'd be in at Brent!).

[Anonymous]

Friendship Chamberlain and then get on the metro at Potomac Ave.

Other options:

walk or 90 bus to JO Wilson, Ludlow-Taylor, 2R4th and take the X2 or red line to work.

Metro to Benning Road, drop kid at nearby school (Plummer is closest), go back to metro for work.

90 bus to Mundo Verde Cook campus or Friendship Armstrong (people like the Reggio PK there) and then go to work.

Stay at your current day care until you get a spot at Brent

Buy a car or take uber a lot

Lottery for all the schools you'd want to attend if commute were no option and then move if you get into one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Appletree SW. It's a bit out of your metro commute but close to the SW Waterfront station.

Thanks- it is definitely on my list (it appears to be close to Federal Center metro as well). Any feedback on this particular Appletree location? I noted at EdFest that they are not holding an open house, so I have no idea what the facility will be like or the teachers.

Appletree SW is closed for the current school year, so that's why there is no open house scheduled. They will probably have an open house once they move into the new location.

[Anonymous]

Look at Mundo Verde. They have a shuttle that goes to Eastern market, and there is a good cohort of families from Capitol Hill that uses it.
But chances are slim to get in preK 3 but won’t hurt if you put it down.

[Anonymous]

Consider investing in a bike? Capitol Hill is relatively flat and you can get to a lot of places on bikes pretty easily. There's a resourceful Facebook group called DC family biking that can help you get equipment and get started.

[Anonymous]

Capitol Hill Montessori (kids can take a bus to the swing space).
MV Cook (metro).
Private daycare.

[Anonymous]

MV does have an Eastern Market bus to both locations, but keep in mind that it runs school hours. Also, I'm sure people do it, but 3 is very young for that IMO.

[Anonymous]

Yu Ying also has a bus from the Hill.

[Anonymous]

Apply to Hill Preschool and move on. If you can afford to live IB for Brent, you can likely afford private daycare. Plus you would meet other Brent inbound pk3 children and parents who also didn’t get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apply to Hill Preschool and move on. If you can afford to live IB for Brent, you can likely afford private daycare. Plus you would meet other Brent inbound pk3 children and parents who also didn’t get in.

We went to Hill Preschool, just for 1 year when DS was 3. It was sweet but there isn't any a-b-c or 1-2-3 learning going on there.