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[quote=Anonymous]OP - If you are looking at MoCo and MCPS, there are too many good public school pyramids (well beyond the Pyle/Whitman cluster) to make it worthwhile to sacrifice your own retirement savings and saving for college, even if you do get financial aid.  You didn't indicate the ages/grades of your kids, but if there is any chance they will all be in MS/HS at the same time in, say, 5-7 years from now, and they are in one of the more expensive independent schools, you could be looking at $200K of tuition/fees/expenses alone, and that's after-tax. Even a family making $1M a year in taxable income will feel that (feel it, not suffer).

Prices for homes that are zoned for Whitman already have that premium baked in.  Whitman is a great school, so it's probably worth it in most cases, but the strongest students at any good MCPS HS are as strong as those in private.  It's a different experience, but anyone who is says that the only way to get a great education in this area is private school has blinders on.  
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