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[quote=Anonymous]It matters a great deal where you send your child.  But not necessarily in the ways that people think.  An elementary school should be warm and caring, orderly, engaging, diverse, and full of talented teachers.  This can be had all over the city!  Test scores matter a little, but even somewhat iffy schools will have a large enough block of kids on grade level to satisfy most children.  The test scores only cover grades 3-5, and often grades K-2nd are higher-performing due to gentrification.  You need to understand that a lot of DCPS schools are in a state of gentrification and are changing rapidly.  The current test scores (which are from tests taken almost a year ago now) are already out of date.

You know what else matters?  Parents having a reasonable commute so that they get home to spend time with their child, and can implement homework and piano practice or whatever without becoming overly frazzled.  This is even more true if you have a second baby.  So if you like living downtown, I'd suggest you choose a school that's closer to downtown like, for example, Seaton.  It's a lovely little school with a great atmosphere and community, plenty of diversity, and really impressive growth metrics, especially in math.  It has everything a young child needs.  If you want a little more space at a reasonable cost, try Whittier.  Because a young child doesn't need an impressive middle school or high school.  You can figure that out later.  It won't affect your child's experience now.  Moving farther out to be in the Wilson pattern will put you through a long commute twice every single day.

And your child will not attend even middle school for 10 more years, right?  So much can change in 10 years.  Schools can open, close, move, boundaries and feeder patterns can change, principals and programs come and go.  Don't buy an expensive house in the Wilson feeder pattern and then get put out in the next boundary review![/quote]

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