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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tuckahoe district is VERY safe nd the school is very good.  The school is overcrowded, but SO much less overcrowded than it used to be.  You can really feel the difference between 130 or 140% overcrowded to whatever it is now (115%???).  It is a nice and friendly community.  Great parks nearby.  Very white, but people are not racist here. There are some stay-at-home moms here or energetic working moms that work hard to make the PTA and school great. Most Tuckahoe folks go to Swanson Middle and it is excellent!! If not, you will attend Williamsburg with the rich folks.  Then W-L or Yorktown for High - both great.

[b]I have heard great things about Henry.  It will undergo some sort of transformation.  I believe people are thinking about making it Montessori choice elementary school.  But I don't know that the final decision has been made, exactly.  It will be redeveloped tho.  The area around Henry is not as safe as Tuckahoe, but it certainly is not Anacostia.  [/b]I don't know about how tight-knit the community is, someone else can speak to that.  It is more diverse than Tuckahoe, if that matters.  If TJ is your middle school, it is very good and has an IB program.  Wakefield would be your high school, I would think.

Having lived in a small house verses a much larger house with closets - the larger house is easier to live in, especially if you don't subscribe to the Konmarie method of tidying up.  Factor in commute time to your equation.      [/quote]

This is factually incorrect. A brand new school is being built and the likely boundary will pull in most of the kids currently zoned to Henry. Construction is supposed to be complete by fall 2019. The current Henry building will then be used to house the countywide option Montessori school (pre-K to fifth grade I think, possibly to expand to include MS students through 8th grade eventually). The neighborhoods currently zoned to Henry ES are perfectly safe. You can look up the crime stats if you want. There is very little crime, overall, and the single family neighborhoods are particularly safe whether in north or south Arlington. Henry is more diverse by just about any measure (racial, economic, linguistic, cultural), but it has an active PTA and the neighborhood seems to have lots of community events. Not my neighborhood, but we're nearby and have heard only good things from friends about the school and the neighborhood.

I'd choose the better home and the better commute.

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