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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what kind of demographics do you want your kid to friends with?  I am from NYC too.  You will find bright but not necessarily gifted.  Gifted in McLean is 2-3 kids per classroom.  I wouldn't worry about academics as they are similar in the good schools in FCPS.[/quote]

I hope this comes out politically correct. If I could put my preferences into a magic ball. I would prefer the school to be 60% Caucasian, 10% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 10% African-American and 10% other/mixed. I would prefer less than 20% ESL and FARMS. I do not need everyone to live in million dollar homes. It would be nice to have a mix of economic diversity but not poverty.

DH and I do ok financially. Within the next few years, we should earn close to or more than $1 million per year combined. I would not want our kids to be the wealthiest kids at school. In NYC, all our friends earned similar incomes and were well educated. It didn't really matter where you worked or went to school. We just had a good time together.

I would like to be within 15 miles of DC. We also have room in our housing budget. We could probably go up to $3 million.[/quote]

I doubt you'll find that demographic mix in NoVa.  You might find it in some parts of Montgomery County.  Usually in Fairfax, if a school has around 10% AA students, it will typically have either at least 25% Asian students, 25% Hispanic students, or both.  But change the 10% Asian to 15% and the 10% AA to 5%, and that's fairly close to what you'll get in the McLean HS pyramid.  There are quite a few $2M houses - typically tear-downs in neighborhoods where the houses go from $750K to $2.5M.  $3M, on the other hand, sounds more like the Langley Forest area of McLean or some parts of Great Falls, both of which are in the Langley HS pyramid, and some properties in Old Town Alexandria (City of Alexandria schools).   [/quote]

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