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[quote=Anonymous]Our experience may be helpful too: We moved into a school boundary - really not thinking too much about it at the time - whose school was definitely in a worse place than Amidon-Bowen now is. We ran with it anyway, not so much for lack of options but because we placed a high premium on staying in the neighborhood and not shuttling our kids around. And it was all worth it. Our children, now in lower and upper elementary school, are thriving and so is the school. Amidon-Bowen is/will be that kind of school, no doubt. It has the support of great parents and goodwill all around. 
The bigger problem you may face is what our neighbors are now facing, namely having paid a premium on property to have a chance at enrolling their little one at (possibly!) great school. And seeing that materialize, they now can't get their in-boundary first-born 3 or 4 year old off the waitlist because so many others have done the same math. Paradoxically, that Amidon-Bowen isn't on the top 10 list city-wide (yet!), may actually make it worthwhile paying a little extra I'd say. If you're a full-time working family, that extra should amount to about two years of paid daycare minus the cost of afterschool care and summer camps.[/quote]

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