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[quote=Anonymous]It looks like we'll be moving to DC from New York this summer. We currently do public in Brooklyn and have one kid, who's going to be in third grade in the fall.

I've been reading threads, running searches on neighborhoods and schools, and trying to get a sense of this. The more I learn, the more confused I get. I'm not crazy about charter schools (the way they've rolled through New York has been problematic), but a lot of my personal beliefs about them get thrown out the window when it comes to the kid... so... I really don't know. My understanding is, if we wanted to try for a charter we'd have to get an application for the second round in soon? What is the deadline?

Can anyone offer suggestions for a neighborhood and school similar to Clinton Hill/Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which is where we are now? We'll be renting for a year or two and working downtown. I'm intrigued by Shepard Park and its elementary school, which feeds into Deal, which is apparently a good thing, but it's pretty far out there. I also don't really drive much, we don't own a car now, so was thinking of somewhere closer in. I'd love to have a strings program at the school, art, science, the usual. Since the kid hasn't had languages up until now, immersion probably wouldn't work.

Most everyone I have asked has said "move to the burbs," but I really don't want to do that. I've lived in cities my entire life--and, from looking at ratings (which I realize don't tell the entire story ever), the burbs with diversity (racial and socioeconomic) don't have better ratings than the dc schools.

Our budget's not sky high, but it's not that low either. Any suggestions? [/quote]

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