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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The conventional wisdom is to live in-bounds for Wilson high school. While the elementary and middle schools that feed into Wilson vary in many ways, your kids will likely be fine at any of them (I would skip Bancroft and Oyster-Adams since they are Spanish immersion and your older child would likely be behind). Hyde-Addison and Stoddert are probably the closest elementary schools to Georgetown, and Hardy is the middle school for them. Deal has higher test scores than Hardy but students seem to do well at both--Hardy is smaller which could be good or bad depending on what your kid prefers (which you probably don't know yet since she's only 7!).

Houses in your price range (especially in 3-4 bedrooms, which I'm assuming you want) in-bounds for Wilson go very fast and with multiple offers so what elementary school you end up may just be a factor of which house you're able to get. Homes in-bounds for Shepherd elementary school tend to be a bit cheaper than other parts of the Wilson boundary.  You may also want to look at Glover Park.[/quote]

Thank you for your reply. Do houses often go much higher than their asking price in the areas you mentioned above? [/quote]

If you are comfortable renting for a year, you can rent a house somewhere in the area that feeds into Wilson - and based on current DC Policy, you can move and your children have the right to continue attending the school they are enrolled in.  There are many families in Janney Elementary School who rent and then buy in the school zone.   In this case you would not have the same pressure to find the right property immediately.[/quote]

Are you saying that, under current policy, you could rent for one year in an ES that feeds into Wilson, then move to a completely different part of the city, and still retain your right to go to Wilson, not to mention the ES and MS that feed to Wilson?

If I am reading that right, do a ton of people game the system by moving for one year to one of those schools and then moving to a more affordable area, all the while retaining rights to Wilson?[/quote]

This advice is dated, and no longer valid.

If you rent for a year and enroll your older children at an elementary school in the Wilson high school feeder pattern for a year -- and then move you can stay a) IF the principal agrees 2) your children may or may not get in as they would have to lottery in as out of boundary children.

Further you only have the right to stay at that school until 5th (when students go on to the next school). You used to be able to stay in the feeder pattern all the way through 12th grade but that policy was changed last year.

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I think the PP was suggesting that you could rent for a year in the Wilson zone and then buy anywhere in the Wilson zone and still stick with the ES where you rented. However, your younger kids might have trouble getting into the same school as the older ones if you move before they start.[/quote]

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