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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - sorry folks, I should have stuck with my initial instinct and not posted any school names, as we've immediately veered into "this one's best, don't do this one" which is not at all the point of this thread. I've reported the last four posts (two of which are mine) and asked Jeff to delete them so we can get back on track.

The question here is a process one:

When you have 24 schools on your potential list, how can you narrow when you've already considered commute, feeders, and baseline academics? I can't go to 24 open houses![/quote]

And also generally: How do DCPS schools differ besides student body/test scores, feeder, and location? Are they very similar across the board in other respects?[/quote]

Teacher quality, admin quality, level of involvement of parents (reflected in PTA & LSAT & community events), extracurriculars offered/aftercare, etc, etc

I also don't think EdFest is that helpful. I think you need to go to open houses to really get a good sense of schools.

I know you don't want this post to get bogged down in individual folks' rankings of the schools... but I would recommend going through this forum and looking for trends. If schools are in your bottom 50% based on proximity/whatever other factors you care about AND this forum is majority negative, scratch them off the list. Although individual posters definitely have agendas, I think there is a lot of wisdom to be found in combing this forum for trends. (My school actually found our aftercare provider by trawling this forum for schools whose aftercares got positive reviews and we've been VERY pleased.)[/quote]

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