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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:50 here and a long-standing PG county resident with a young child. Please don't assume where someone lives because of their post.

When I looked at the cost of the cheapest private school, plus travel expenses, it makes more sense for me to sell and buy in a neighborhood with better public schools and just pay for aftercare.

St. Jerome's School
$8,500 tuition
$288 fees
$60 week aftercare ($2,580 a year)
About $1,136 per month for 10 months

Friends Community School
$16,250 tuition
$0 fees
$7.50 per hour aftercare ($112.50 per week, $4837.50 a year)
$2,108.75 a month

The Washington Post is having a forum this Wednesday to discuss the state of our schools. OP, come out and hear what people have to say. I am looking for viable options to keep my house and would love if people could take about reasonable school options for county residents. I considered moving to inbounds for Tulip elementary too but I would consider moving after that.

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You mention Tulip Grove, which is rated highly, and then say that you'd move after that.  That's the thing.  How much do you really know about the middle school and high school in Bowie?  I have a neighbor whose son graduated last spring from Bowie high school.   He's very smart.  He got an academic scholarship to a well respected university in DC (I don't want to say too much about him on a public web site).  But my point is, he's a product of Bowie schools.  And I wouldn't at all be disappointed if my kid turned out like him.

I feel like so much is said about schools, and I wonder how much experience the people saying them has actually had with the schools.  Test scores only tell part of the story, because they are averages, so if you do have a portion of the student base that is lower SES, then yes, those scores are going to bring down the overall average.  But I'm not sure it tells the whole story of a school.

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