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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow! What a wonderful, helpful post! Thank you so much. Do you mind asking, what is the name of the neighborhood/community you are living in? Would love to consider moving there and be your friend :)[/quote]

Thanks! :)

We live in NE Leesburg fairly close to downtown, our schools are Leesburg/Smart's Mill/Tuscarora.

I don't know what percentage of Asians is your 'minimum,' though.

In reference to 22:04, Seldens Landing (which serves part of Lansdowne): 71% White, 16% Asian, 9% Black, 4% Hispanic. Lansdowne currently goes to Tuscarora HS (and they fought like hell not to go there, or more accurately to stay in Stone Bridge), but eventually Lansdowne and north Ashburn will get their own high school.

All figures are from Greatschools -- run numbers yourself, but be sure to get the latest and greatest school zone map if you do pick the town of Leesburg. They were supposed to rejigger the zones so that the non-English speakers and free lunch students were spread out more, but to placate some neighborhood, the School Board decided to give Douglass (the new ES opening this fall) more ESOL/FARMS students than the others -- which really sucked as the staff and several citizens had come up with good plans which did a nice job of balancing. Even then, the FARMS percentages at Douglass are in the low 30s, hardly the stuff of doom and gloom IMO, I just mention them because some people get funny once you start talking FARMS percentages of over 15% and other people seem to WANT FARMS percentages over 40%.

Finally -- there's the historic core of Leesburg, the 70s buildout, and the Ashburn part of Leesburg. Three different areas, and this diversity in housing styles is part of what I love about Leesburg.

The way I see it, I'm within walking distance of stuff I want to walk to (downtown, Leesburg Plaza, etc.) and I can drive to stuff I need to drive to -- no one's going to walk to Target and pick up some stuff. For me, that matters as I'm always the designated driver for my family. :)[/quote]

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