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[quote=Anonymous]Unless you're sure you're going to move again, I'd start by looking at high schools for two reasons.  One is that there are fewer of them, so your choice will be narrowed down faster, and the other is that I don't think there are huge variations between elementary schools in the same cluster.

Once you picked a couple of clusters, the MCPS schools at a glance will give you a sense of the schools.  To me, it's more important to compare test scores demographic by demographic than overall, and this lets you do so.

If you scroll down on the school at a glance thing, you can see how many portables the school has (look under facilities data for "relocatable classrooms").  If you look at the number of "core teaching stations" for Kindergarten, and divide that into the total number of Kindergarteners (under enrollment by grade) you'll know the class size.

Once you have this data, and other data that was important to you (racial composition, and the performance of African American kids was important to me since that's what my kid is) you can make comparisons, and pick a handful of schools, then drive around those neighborhoods, look at real estate ads, and narrow it further.  Then call the school and ask for a tour.

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