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[quote=Anonymous]When you read the "at a glance" reports...you should pay special attention to the racial composition, ESOL and FARMS.  Basically a school skewed towards mainly minorities (AA and Hispanics) will be underperforming and the school skewed towards Whites will be high performing and associated with very expensive housing. This is the trend  at least in Mcps.

If I had to give you a suggestion - I would start with working backwards - pick a good balanced HS (Quince Orchard would be top of my list) and figure out what MSs and ESs are in that cluster feeding into QO.  Then you have a more narrowed down list of neighborhoods to work with.

W schools are also great but the prices are way beyond your budget.

The other PPs are correct that you should not base your search on where the HGC and magnets are because that is a "test in" program. It does not really help the kids within that school.  My kids are going to HGC and magnets. We are not zoned in these area and neither are we zoned in a great school cluster.  If we ever had to rent an apartment zoned for a particular school we would not choose HGC and magnet schools, we would actually choose a high performing school in a more expensive area.[/quote]

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