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[quote=Anonymous]At OP's budget of $550k, she's not going to get into a nice neighborhood with good IB schools - just not happening.

Lots of others have mentioned newly gentrified neighborhoods with dicey-but-hopefully-improving schools (eckington, Petworth, brookland, etc). As others have noted, these neighborhoods are already pretty nice, but schools have to catch up. But I would think that at OP's budget, she's going to end up with a 2 bed condo in the dicey parts of those neighborhoods. The busy street, or the street with a liquor store on the corner, or 3 blocks farther away from where you really want to be so people have to ask "is this still [fill in the blank neighborhood]?"

So then you are left with the crappy parts of the city (unsafe, etc) with crappy schools.

To the PP's comment about buying in a mediocre neighborhood and trading up, while I agree in concept and have done this myself, the difference between your situation and OP's is that her kid is already 4. You bought into east CH years before having a kid, so suffering through drug trades etc was less important. Would you have done that with your kindergartener, all on the chance to get into an elementary by 3rd grade?

I just don't think that budget gets you 1000 sf anywhere borderline safe that you'd really want to have a kid.  (and I say this as someone who has happily lived in some insanely sketchy places pre kids - but once we had a kid, we bought the crappiest ugliest smallest house all because we refused to compromise on location) [/quote]

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