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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All, we are returning to the WMA this summer and I have 2 two bi-racial (black/white) kids so don't want an all-White or all anything crowd:

- rising 2nd grader with ADHD, high anxiety, selective mutism

- little brother who won't be 5 by the start of school but is absolutely ready for Kindergarten, so we'd probably put him at the French school in Bethesda since he would make the cut there and we are bi-lingual family.

Welcome your ideas on where to live/ what schools to look into for my eldest, if possible not horribly far from Bethesda as we'd have to drive to VA for work.  Bethesda proper or NW DC are options that I've considered so far, and specifically I was looking at:

Bannockburn, Westbrook, Potomac ES in MoCo.

Janney, Lafayette, Ross, Stoddert, and Key ES in DC.

I am able to find all the info on school rankings and racial diversity, but not on how well the schools do in terms of support to special needs.
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Many of the schools in Western moco aren't diverse racially or in terms of SES. The good news the same kid will do similarly at almost any of these schools. These rankings are complete nonsense. The biggest issues are in less affluent areas, especially in early ES teachers are so overwhelmed dealing with students that are below grade level that everyone else gets ignored and there are opportunities for acceleration offered to students at the more affluent schools that the same or stronger student would not receive at a less affluent school. However, after ES things pretty much level off.[/quote]

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