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[quote=Anonymous]But Mt Pleasant is zoned for Bancroft, and it will be hard for elementary kid to join a bilingual program in upper elementary. If you're ok with that or the monlingual alternative it's a good choice since you then have Deal and JR for middle and high school. I don't know if there are places in your budget.

I am setting aside EOTR since I don't know exactly where you'll need to be.

Agree with Shepherd Park, especially if you can find something that's in-bounds for Shepherd but close to the Silver Spring metro for the commute to NoMa and Howard (change at Ft. Totten). It is a longer commute for the middle and high school though. So another option is Tenleytown. K-12 schools are all in close proximity; it's a little further from Howard but not terrible, and a direct red line commute to NoMa.

If you are ok with Wells and Coolidge, then I'd suggest Takoma or Whittier for having schools near each other, metro, Petworth, and HU. Takoma metro to NoMa is a pretty good commute. And real estate is cheaper there than in Tenleytown, Shepherd Park, or MtP.

If the HS student does get into Banneker, Walls, McKinley Tech, or Ellington via the lottery (much easier for a 9th grader than subsequent grades; it is possible to enter the lottery before moving to DC but you need to have proof of residency within a few weeks of the lottery coming out in order to enroll), then John Francis and the schools that feed into its middle school (Cleveland, Garrison, Seaton, Ross, Thomson) would be a good choice for K-8. Different ones would be better depending on which high school the commute is to, and some are closer to GW vs. HU vs. Petworth vs. NoMa.

Another option (yes, lottery dependent but a good chance of getting 3 kids in with sibling preference) is a charter that goes K-12 and has all the schools in proximity to each other. Haynes and Capital City would both be relatively close to Petworth and HU, more affordable, and not a bad commute to NoMa.

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