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Really?  How do you do that?   Homes in the Yorktown district are more expensive.

Perhaps W-L's profile will look better by the time the kids crowding the feeder schools reach HS age.  [/quote]

W-L has always had a very large population of very affluent kids, today and 10, 20, 30 years ago, before the recent gentrification. Those houses off Lorcom Lane or in Lyon Village were always some of the most expensive areas in the county. Sure Yorktown has posh Country Club Hills and Chain Bridge forest but also modest areas like Westover and E Falls Church. Yorktown just never had a significant group of esol/esl/hilt kids. In fact the esl program didn't even exist at Yorktown until the mid-90s, and it remains very small.

So no one was ever priced out of Williamsburg and Yorktown, and had to settle for "lesser" Swanson and W-L. That's ridiculous. People find houses they like in areas with good schools, and for the most part anywhere in N Arlington has sufficed. That's true today, and was true 30 years ago. People would not be buying into the W-L pyramid if the schools were bad.

Both schools' SAT scores ranked in the top 10 of northern Va public schools last year and both schools were among the few in the US to have natl merit finalists (class of '11). If the higher scores at Yorktown compel a young couple to buy only in the Yorktown district, there's nothing wrong with that. But most homebuyers in Arlington aren't that focused on finding the high school with the best scores in the region. They just want good schools with solid reputations.

W-L has always had a good reputation, and as the PP wrote, will only continue to look better with all the kids crowding into the feeder schools like Science Focus and Taylor. And to take the argument further, I suspect Wakefield will grow in prominence with a new building and with couples looking for more affordable homes. S Arlington has been overlooked for decades, but that will soon change. That's my prediction.[/quote]

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