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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not too many people move from MCPS to DCPS for a reason.[/quote]

In fairness, not many people that would send their kids to JR or Walls move to MCPS either.  It is just there are many people where they don't have JR as a neighborhood option and Walls is a small school.

Admittedly, MCPS has Whitman, Churchhill, BCC, Wooten...many good options for HS.  I have heard close-in MCPS middle school is an issue for a lot of people, but they go with the flow because they do have strong HS options.

Also, college competition is more severe from these MCPS high schools, so if you have great stats at JR you are not competing against nearly as many kids with great stats for T20 colleges.[/quote]

This is exactly my impression. If you buy a starter home in Brookland, you are likely going to move to MoCo because it's cheaper and there's more housing stock and school options than moving IB for JR. Particularly because there's a good chance you can only afford Blair/Einstein, maybe BCC, but not Whitman or Wooten. But if you buy IB for JR, you had the financials to choose between MCPS and JR and are unlikely to change your mind for largely similar schools. Plus, many people don't LIKE those high schools and would rather deal with the warts at JR than the pressure cooker elitism in MoCo. [/quote]

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