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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, central PG county where Upper Marlboro is located, is one of the weaker parts of PGCPS.  Very hit-or-miss.  That said, the real estate is very affordably priced, so that you can get more bang-for-your-buck on housing so pay for private/parochial schools if needed.

If you want public schools, you would do better to look in Greenbelt.  It's very similarly priced for housing, but the public schools in Greenbelt are stronger than the schools in central PG county (Greenbelt is considered northern PG county along with Laurel and Bowie and arguably the strongest part of PGCPS).

Also, if your kids are young (pre-schooling), then you have a chance to get in to one of the lottery schools, either the Robert Goddard Montessori or the French Immersion program.  Those are good programs, but since most kids transfer up from lower classes, the number of openings for children to enter the program outside of the lowest grade are few and far between.  Much easier to enter at the lowest grade.  That said, I know families that have done both and they said that the programs are both strong.

And if your kids are good in science/match, the tech magnet program at Eleanor Roosevelt HS is a very good program.  I work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and we often have kids from ERHS tech come over to GSFC for various programs, some day programs, others like SHARP internships and the kids are sharp and invested and interested in learning.  Plus, I know several families where the kids graduated from the ERHS tech magnet and got into good college programs.[/quote]

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