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Good schools and walking distance to metro?
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Anonymous
| Based on the comments on this site, it seems that there is a tradeoff between good schools and metro accessibility in NoVA. In other words, the schools in the most metro accessible neighborhoods (e.g., South Arlington, Alexandria) are not as good as those in less accessible areas (e.g., North Arlington). Is this true? Are there any strong school clusters in which one would have a 10-15 min walk to a metro station? I am especially interested in elementary schools, as my wife and I are expecting our first child. |
Anonymous
| Marshall Road Elem is located right off Nutely Street as is Vienna Metro. There is a sidewalk, but cars go by fast on Nutely Street since the interchange for I66 is right there. |
Anonymous
| North Arlington near the EFC Metro might work: 22213, 22205 |
Anonymous
| The whole Rosslyn, COurthouse, Clarendon, Ballston metro corridor has great schools. Lyon Park and Lyon Village are great neighborhoods and are accessible to metro. Of course you have to pay for that location, too. |
Anonymous
| We are at Marshall Road if you want any more information about it. It's generally a pretty good school - strong PTA, lots of special programs - Art Smart, before school foreign language, chess club, full-day kindergarten. The You could easily live within a 15 minute walk of both the school and the Metro (or even 5 or 10 minutes). Marshall Road is on one side of Nutley Street, and the Metro is on the other. If you live on the school side, you'd be walkers. If you live on the Metro side, your child would get a bus. On the Metro side are just condos and townhomes - no single families there. The pyramid is good - Thoreau and Madison. Hope this helps. |
Anonymous
| OP- you must be confused as to what N arlington encompasses. There are a lot of schools in the 22205 and 22207 zip codes that are 10-15 min from metro. look in the clarendon area - arl science focus, key, ashlawn, mckinley, etc all fall within your walk to metro and all are rated good schools. |
Anonymous
| immediate pp here, the latter schools (ashlawn and mckinley) are not in clarendon but are in the 22205 zip and are within walking distance to ballston and efc metros. |
Anonymous
| PP, yes I was confused. I thought that all of the good schools were much further north, but I seem to have been misinformed. Thanks for providing a specific list of schools - VERY HELPFUL! |
Anonymous
| Isn't Marshall Road right on Nutley near the metro and the Route 66 interchange? I would be worried about all the traffic. |
Anonymous
| Some parts of the Haycock (which feeds to Longfellow/McLean) are walking distance to the West Falls Church Metro. |
Anonymous
The area off of Great Falls St/Haycock Rd. is walking distance to West Falls Church metro (zip code 22043), and it feeds into Haycock ES (GT Center), Longfellow MS & McLean HS. |
Anonymous
| We live in Falls Hill. Great neighborhood! It's walking distance to West Falls Church. The elementary school is Shrevewood, which my children (and I) really like. It's a smaller school with a great principal. |
Anonymous
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We are 22207 and fall under Glebe elementary. We are under a 15 minute walk to the Ballston Metro. The ART bus is less that a 2 minute walk from our house and will take you right to the metro too.
OP, we looked all over North Arlington while looking for a house and weren't overly concerned about which elementary we ended up with because they are all great, you have lots of choice and redistricting can happen at any time so why get hung up about a particular elementary school. We feel pretty safe with Glebe though. It is a neighborhood school and everyone walks. |
Anonymous
Hey neighbor!  We are also Glebe and I agree with this (although my son won't start K until next year). We are also in 22207 - about 1.5 miles to Ballston and the ART bus goes right down our street. Key, Taylor, Glebe, and the others mentioned above are all great schools and relatively metro accessible depending where you are. The only real issue in Arlington schools now is overcrowding - mostly because people have realized what a great area it is to live and are not moving further out in the suburbs. I would recommend you find an area near metro you like and then look at the specific schools, you generally cannot go wrong anywhere in Arlington, Falls CHurch City, or Fairfax Co.
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Anonymous
| We live walking distance to WFC metro (10 min) in Falls Church City. Our kids are still in preschool, but the public schools are purported to be excellent. |