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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes the biggest drawback to this strategy is that if you only stay for a short time,[b] people know what you are doing and might be annoyed.[/b]

HOWEVER, it sounds like you don't yet own a home and may be looking at doing this for PK or K (keep in mind that you are not guaranteed at PK spot at most DCPS elementaries, so if you do this when your kid is 3, you may have to wait until K for them to enroll in the school), and then buying OOB after that. I honestly think no-one would even notice if you did this. I mean maybe people would put it together, but to most people it would look like you were living in a neighborhood you liked, your kid went to school there, but then when you decided to buy you could not afford it so bought elsewhere. And since DC lets you stay in a school once enrolled, even if you move out of bounds, you would not be violating any rules and I doubt people would care.

It would be different if you have, say, a 2nd grader and you rented IB for one year to get them into the school and then immediately moved back out. Then it would be more obvious to people, and might annoy them, especially if you managed to get feeder preference.[/quote]

Not necessarily. Upper NW certainly isn't like Capitol Hill, where almost all of the single family homes are connected in rows, school catchment areas are tiny, and apt. buildings are small or tiny. You can fly under the radar easily enough on residency in Wards 1,2 and 3 if you're careful.  Even if people suspect that you're gaming the system, none of their business what you're doing at the school - you could have lotteried in OOB. Almost every DCPS program in Upper NW offers at least a few spots for every grade.  Just don't invite kids to your home unless their parents are close friends who won't bust you.  Just don't talk about where you actually live with parents who aren't close friends.  Done.[/quote]

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