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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kiddo is currently in PK in DCPS and, assuming the DC school lottery doesn't give us the results we are looking for in the next couple years, we are looking to move in ~3 years to either Shepherd Park or somewhere in Montgomery County. [Yes, I know that schools can change, but I would still like to start doing our preliminary research now.]

Our budget is probably ~1.25M for a minimum 4 bdrm/2.5 bath house and we are trying to figure out which MoCo areas to look at for housing. [We could afford to go a little higher than that, especially if interest rates go down a little, but don't want to have a stressfully high mortgage.] We want to be in an area zoned for an elementary school that is diverse and has *at least 20% Black students* (because we do not want our kid to feel isolated or singled out) AND where Black subgroup scores are [b]high[/b] on standardized tests. We also want to make sure that ES feeds into a decent (including for Black students) MS and HS. We have had an [i]extremely[/i] hard time finding a school in DC that meets our criteria--the only real options we have found are some of the bilingual charters that require an great lottery number (which we haven't gotten, so far) or Shepherd Elementary--but I'm hoping that MoCo has more to offer us.

What I am [b]not[/b] looking for are suggestions of schools that have generally high test scores, but where the poster does not know (or, probably, care) whether there is a significant population of Black students OR whether the Black student subgroup scores are good. I, too, know that the best test scores are generally found in the highest income areas.

Thank you, in advance, to anyone who can provide helpful information. [/quote]

Agree with the general recommendations to consider Takoma Park/downtown Silver Spring and environs, but if you are looking at specific demographic ratios as a baseline, I would suggest going to the MCPS school data page first. Select "elementary profile dashboard" and you can look at data from various elementary schools.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/school-profiles

To figure out which elementary school(s) to look at (since there are many!), you could look at a PDF map of high school clusters - for example, the map for the Blair cluster identifies the elementary schools in that cluster and you can use the data profiles to look at the elementary schools in that cluster.  This is useful if you already know what areas in the county you are considering.  What is referred to as the Downcounty Consortium (or DCC) is probably what you will want to focus on.  This includes 5 high schools (Blair, Einstein, Wheaton, Northwood, and Kennedy) and their feeder elementary schools.

Good luck!

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps.html
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