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[quote=Anonymous]It’s good you are considering this. I’m you 10 years later facing the middle school dilemma on the Hill, and really unhappy with our options.

A lot depends on what you can afford. If you can afford a house in Cleveland Park or Glover Park, go for it now. The NW schools are not perfect but it’s a good balance of urban amenities and decent schools.

On privates, do you know your child is neurotypical? If so, privates can be a good fallback if you have a good reason to believe your kid will get in. A LOT of families zoned for bad DCPS MS and HS plan on sending their kids to privates after sticking it out in ES DCPS or charters. But then your plan still depends on winning a spot. So you still need a contingency plan of moving.

How is the zoned elementary school through 5th grade? It may be fine to stay there. But your kid will miss out on some of the autonmy they would get in a safer neighborhood. And uprooting for MS/HS is still painful.

Going private now in ES provides some more stability (because you will do a k-12 or have more reassurance about admittance to private HS - that’s part of what you pay for). But it’s a LOT of money, when you could just take it and move to Cleveland Park. And ultimately schlepping your kid out of your walkable, urban neighborhood for 12-15 yrs for school seems to defeat the purpose. Both in terms of enjoying walkability and having ties in the neighborhood. One of the joys of having older kids is seeing them make real friends and having freedom to go back and forth to each other’s houses. You can’t really have that if your kid goes to some NW private. [/quote]

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