Best Elementary School in Georgetown (or other urban neighborhood)?

[Anonymous]

I'd look into Thomson Elementary - www.thomsondcps.org. Good downtown location; Great Schools rating of 9.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd look into Thomson Elementary - www.thomsondcps.org. Good downtown location; Great Schools rating of 9.

Really? To come in from out of town and live nin the chaos near Thomson AND send your DCs there? That would be a bridge too far for most!

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Anonymous wrote:I'd look into Thomson Elementary - www.thomsondcps.org. Good downtown location; Great Schools rating of 9.

That is my inbounds, and I absolutely love raising my child in the neighborhood. I would never even consider Georgetown; I guess it would be considered urban, but it is inconvenient, disconnected and a bore. Although we didn't choose Thomson many years ago when we were making the decision, it would probably be our top choice now.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at Glover Park. Good elementary school. Lots of kids and families. Parks and playgrounds. Walk to stuff all along WI Ave (although who knows when Whole Foods is going to reopen but I heard rumors of Trader Joe’s coming too.) Close to Georgetown if you like that area. No metro but good bus service from what I’ve heard. 1-1.5 million gets you a good row house there.

Glover Park is great. Trader Joe's is confirmed (timing either late 2018 or 2019). Very good bus service - 7 routes during rush hour (6 other times).

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Anonymous wrote:Look at Glover Park. Good elementary school. Lots of kids and families. Parks and playgrounds. Walk to stuff all along WI Ave (although who knows when Whole Foods is going to reopen but I heard rumors of Trader Joe’s coming too.) Close to Georgetown if you like that area. No metro but good bus service from what I’ve heard. 1-1.5 million gets you a good row house there.

Glover Park is great. Trader Joe's is confirmed (timing either late 2018 or 2019). Very good bus service - 7 routes during rush hour (6 other times).

I wouldn't call it urban though.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd look into Thomson Elementary - www.thomsondcps.org. Good downtown location; Great Schools rating of 9.

That is my inbounds, and I absolutely love raising my child in the neighborhood. I would never even consider Georgetown; I guess it would be considered urban, but it is inconvenient, disconnected and a bore. Although we didn't choose Thomson many years ago when we were making the decision, it would probably be our top choice now.

Cool story, bro. If you never enrolled a child there, you are no more helpful than the folks who think AU Park is urban.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at Glover Park. Good elementary school. Lots of kids and families. Parks and playgrounds. Walk to stuff all along WI Ave (although who knows when Whole Foods is going to reopen but I heard rumors of Trader Joe’s coming too.) Close to Georgetown if you like that area. No metro but good bus service from what I’ve heard. 1-1.5 million gets you a good row house there.

Glover Park is great. Trader Joe's is confirmed (timing either late 2018 or 2019). Very good bus service - 7 routes during rush hour (6 other times).

I wouldn't call it urban though.

It is for someone coming from Texas. You drive everywhere in Texas. It's gross and why so many Texans are overweight. Life is driving from one parking lot to another.

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Anonymous wrote:Palisades doesn't feed to Deal.

But this PP is correct about Deal feeder neighborhoods. If you like Silver Spring, Takoma park area, you can look across the street from Takoma Park in Shepherd Park DC, also across the street from Rock Creek Park (one of the only two neighborhoods that feeds to Deal that are east of the Rock Creek Park). It's not as urban as Georgetown, but more than Chevy Chase because its walkable to urban parts of Takoma and Silver Spring is currently undergoing huge development at Walter Reed that will make it more retail friendly. Also, you can get a lot more for $1m, plenty of street parking, and very diverse neighborhood (albeit not much in terms as SES as it has always been a historically upper class, black and Jewish neighborhood of DC.

Shepherd Park overall more walkable than Chevy Chase DC? Not really. There is a good chunk of CCDC (specifically the part between Wisconsin and Conn. Avenues) that is more walkable than the vast majority of Shepherd Park, most of which is far from everything.

No dog but yes there are parts of CC that are not even a mile to any retailer or metro. Then there are some that are close to limited retail, bars and restaurants. There are parts of SP that are about a mile to anywhere but then there are parts that are 5-6 blocks from grocery, library, metro, bars, restaurants etc. Also, once Harris Teeter opens in SP there will be even more retail, restaurants then when Walter Reed finishes developing, choices will only get bigger. I would consider them similar. SP (parts by Georgia) is a little more urban and diverse (Nepali, Ethiopian, Peruvian cuisines all in SP) then even more choices in SS or Takoma depending on if you're north or south in SP.

And then there's the significant part of ccdc, the one where i live so I feel pretty qualified to talk about it, that has a walk score around 90 and is 1-4 blocks from metro and a boat load of commerce that is actually useful every day. Neither Bo concepts nor a bar devoted exclusively to hard cider, in other words.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd look into Thomson Elementary - www.thomsondcps.org. Good downtown location; Great Schools rating of 9.

That is my inbounds, and I absolutely love raising my child in the neighborhood. I would never even consider Georgetown; I guess it would be considered urban, but it is inconvenient, disconnected and a bore. Although we didn't choose Thomson many years ago when we were making the decision, it would probably be our top choice now.

Cool story, bro. If you never enrolled a child there, you are no more helpful than the folks who think AU Park is urban.

I have seriously contemplated sending my child there every year for the last 7 years and reresearched each year, most recently in August. Luckily, our charter has thus far held strong. But it has been amazing watching the developments over the past few years, especially after the trials of the late 2000s. We love the charter, but if we were to make the decision again, there is no way we could ignore the convenience of Thomson, given the way that it has changed. Also, it now feeds to FS-SWW instead of Cardozo. Huge difference.

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OP, I read this whole thread and doubt any other poster has lived in Georgetown with young children. We have. It is great and different from the rest of DC. There are 7 to 14 million dollar homes within a block of 1.2 million dollar homes. Parks, art galleries stores and restaurants all within a few blocks. You can drive over to Virginia in 5 minutes. Little Folks and St. Johns nursery schools are among the very best in DC. French Maternal School, Georgetown Hospital and more. Yes, many of the Georgetown kids attend private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I read this whole thread and doubt any other poster has lived in Georgetown with young children. We have. It is great and different from the rest of DC. There are 7 to 14 million dollar homes within a block of 1.2 million dollar homes. Parks, art galleries stores and restaurants all within a few blocks. You can drive over to Virginia in 5 minutes. Little Folks and St. Johns nursery schools are among the very best in DC. French Maternal School, Georgetown Hospital and more. Yes, many of the Georgetown kids attend private schools.

But did you see that OP has a budget of 1.5 and 3 kids?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I read this whole thread and doubt any other poster has lived in Georgetown with young children. We have. It is great and different from the rest of DC. There are 7 to 14 million dollar homes within a block of 1.2 million dollar homes. Parks, art galleries stores and restaurants all within a few blocks. You can drive over to Virginia in 5 minutes. Little Folks and St. Johns nursery schools are among the very best in DC. French Maternal School, Georgetown Hospital and more. Yes, many of the Georgetown kids attend private schools.

Is that supposed to be a draw? That was exactly the PPs' point - that Georgetown has a lot of seriously wealthy folks with a different lifestyle than OP. Private school for kids being one feature of it, which limits the sense of community OP will be able to find there.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I read this whole thread and doubt any other poster has lived in Georgetown with young children. We have. It is great and different from the rest of DC. There are 7 to 14 million dollar homes within a block of 1.2 million dollar homes. Parks, art galleries stores and restaurants all within a few blocks. You can drive over to Virginia in 5 minutes. Little Folks and St. Johns nursery schools are among the very best in DC. French Maternal School, Georgetown Hospital and more. Yes, many of the Georgetown kids attend private schools.

Is that supposed to be a draw? That was exactly the PPs' point - that Georgetown has a lot of seriously wealthy folks with a different lifestyle than OP. Private school for kids being one feature of it, which limits the sense of community OP will be able to find there.

And the 1.2 mil. homes only have one and two bedrooms -- try that with a family of 5.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I read this whole thread and doubt any other poster has lived in Georgetown with young children. We have. It is great and different from the rest of DC. There are 7 to 14 million dollar homes within a block of 1.2 million dollar homes. Parks, art galleries stores and restaurants all within a few blocks. You can drive over to Virginia in 5 minutes. Little Folks and St. Johns nursery schools are among the very best in DC. French Maternal School, Georgetown Hospital and more. Yes, many of the Georgetown kids attend private schools.

Is that supposed to be a draw? That was exactly the PPs' point - that Georgetown has a lot of seriously wealthy folks with a different lifestyle than OP. Private school for kids being one feature of it, which limits the sense of community OP will be able to find there.

And the 1.2 mil. homes only have one and two bedrooms -- try that with a family of 5.

Right there is the reason to avoid Georgetown. "The very best nursery schools in DC." Please. According to WHOM?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I read this whole thread and doubt any other poster has lived in Georgetown with young children. We have. It is great and different from the rest of DC. There are 7 to 14 million dollar homes within a block of 1.2 million dollar homes. Parks, art galleries stores and restaurants all within a few blocks. You can drive over to Virginia in 5 minutes. Little Folks and St. Johns nursery schools are among the very best in DC. French Maternal School, Georgetown Hospital and more. Yes, many of the Georgetown kids attend private schools.

Yuck. Native Washingtonian, we don't really consider Georgetown part of Washington. It's like an "add on"