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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a single white mom of a 4 year old moving to Petworth. We won’t have a car so I need all the info you guys have on best schools/safest/walk ability etc..

Thank you!!!![/quote]

We are looking at moving between 13th and kansas by upshur [/quote]

I've lived in Petworth for 10 years with my two kids. That's a great location for walkability and proximity to the Metro. You are also close to bus lines on Georgia, 14th, and 16th. My kids go to a charter, but I hear Powell is great school. It's dual language (Spanish). My understanding is it's very hard/impossible to lottery into if you live out of bound, which as PP said, shows it has decent in-bound buy-in, so you'll have a nice neighborhood school feel.

As others have mentioned, we're in the city, so I don't walk alone when it's dark. Being closer to the Metro and businesses means there is slightly more activity, but there are lots of families with young kids, so just use common sense. Welcome to the neighborhood![/quote]

We got a mid-summer offer at Powell for K with an absolute bottom of the barrel lottery number. If I recall, pre-K is pretty much impossible for English dominant, but it opens up in K and above. It's also usually not the highest ranked on waitlists, so they may clear a waitlist even if the offer numbers only show that they made offers to half the initial waitlist, because it gets dropped off waitlists automatically when people get into higher ranked schools.[/quote]

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