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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have an excellent grasp on everything. Like nothing to correct you on. If you want two-way immersion (50/50 bilingual), you can move in bound to one of the DCPS or MCPS schools. Personally I’d move to Mount Pleasant for Bancroft if that’s in your budget. There’s also Marie Reed, Powell, and Bruce Monroe in DC, but those don’t have great middle schools, so if you can afford Bancroft or Oyster, I’d do that. Full immersion is a MCPS “local” lottery school for a 99% sure bet, or the regular immersion lottery, but then you have to win the lottery. DCPS and the DC charters don’t have any full immersion options past kindergarten. I don’t know of any plans to expand, but we’re in DC so not super up on MCPS. Rochambeau is the cheapest private. Next is WIS, but that’s a big price difference. [/quote]

You could also stay where you are for the time being and play the DC lottery to see if you get into any of the immersion charters.  We were able to lottery into LAMB (Latin American Montessori Bilingual) and are excited about it.  It has a path to DC International, a language immersion charter middle/high school, although it's not 100% guaranteed.[/quote]

That's right, DC has bilingual DCPS and charters. Out of bounds DCPS and charters are by lottery only. If you get a lottery seat, you can move wherever you want in DC and keep that seat. Moving in-bound to a bilingual DCPS guarantees you a seat in kindergarten (there's free pre-K in DC, but most/all bilingual schools have waitlists for English dominant kids, so you'd still have to lottery to get a seat in pre-K). Same in MoCo - moving in-bound gets you a seat at a bilingual/two-way immersion school (50/50 language model like DC schools), or you can lottery for a full immersion seat at one of those programs. Some of those programs have "local" preference, so you're pretty much guaranteed a seat if you do the lottery as an in-bound student. VA also has an immersion lottery in Arlington Co, and some bilingual schools and a lottery in FCPS. OP, if you tell us your budget and housing preferences (suburban, SFH, etc.), we can give you more specific recommendations. [/quote]

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