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[quote=Anonymous]We will move to DC area in August, coming from Europe.
I would like my son, who is French/English bilingual, to go to one of the public schools that have French immersion.
I have found Sligo Creek in Montgomery and Kent Gardens in Fairfax. I have phoned both counties and they both said that you can't start enrolment until you have an address in that county, and then they assign the school according to your area.
We will know our address in June or July at the earliest. I can't see a way of doing this. Even if we targeted one of these schools and found a house very close to the school, by then the school may be full and they could send us to another school that does not have French. Is this correct? Is there anybody else with a similar experience?

I also found Elsie Stokes in DC that has French immersion. And they told me I can start the admission process, and the address does not 
seem to have an issue right now. It may well be that, if in the end we do not find a house in the school area, they would not accept us in the end, but I find this process much more reasonable than the Montgomery and Fairfax ones.

I am new to this area and this country, any advice, ideas about all this administrative stuff would be appreciated.[/quote]

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