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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are looking to buy soon. We have a toddler who will be starting PK3 next year and we're making our decision based largely on her school options, and a Spanish-English bilingual school is our top priority. The neighborhoods with bilingual schools (MtP, Woodley, Shaw, Petworth, etc) etc are very pricey when compared to other neighborhoods like Brightwood, Takoma, etc. We're trying to decide whether to start looking in the 'burbs (Kensington & Takoma Park in MD both have IB bilingual schools), or whether to stay in the District but maybe take our chances with the OOB/PCS lottery in DCPS for her bilingual schooling. I know living IB is the only way to [i]guarantee[/i] getting into one of the bilingual programs, but I'm curious if the chances of lotterying into one are good anyway...

She's in a bilingual environment now so even skipping PK and starting in K would be fine if that changes anything (although ideally we'd love to take advantage of DC's PK3 & 4 as we plan on more kids in the near future--this is part of our financial consideration of DC vs 'burbs too...).

Thoughts?[/quote]

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