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[quote=Anonymous]1- I don't think actively avoiding houses zoned for "good" schools is a good strategy, but I think it's fine to weight the district (e.g., FCPS, MCPS) much more than the apparent quality of an individual school. I don't know that there are truly "bad" schools in either district. 2- Depends what you mean by "quality". Some elementary/middle schools are way over capacity and have kids in trailers. Some will be under construction for 2-3 years while your child is attending. Some are in locations that would be hard to walk to. 3- Greatschools seems to measure affluence and a mix of diversity factors. I doubt it is even correlated with anything that actually matters to a student's education. Measuring the value-added contribution of a school or a teacher is incredibly difficult, and there are not reliable metrics available. [/quote]
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