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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a family with small kids, it's idea. We live in University Park and we're ten-minute walks from the library, the movie theater, Whole Foods, several restaurants, and four different playgrounds. Our mortgage, for a three-bedroom historic house, is $2,100 a month. Our kids are too young for us to have had to navigate the tricky public schools, but our older one currently attends the Center for Young Children, run by UMD's early childhood education department, and in terms of quality I'd put it up against any $40k-a-year preschool that the "ritzier" suburbs could offer. When school comes, we'll figure it out, just like the neighbors on our block whose older kids have recently been accepted to name brand colleges.[/quote]

Where do your neighbors send kids to K-12? I loooove University Park and would like to convince my DH to move there. We are in NE DC. Our kid is in a great elementary now but we we don't love our middle or high school options. Curious what the landscape is in PG.[/quote]

UP Elementary is considered a solid option that a lot of families are happy with. Other families have tested into the TAG program at Glenarden Woods, or they have lotteried into the language immersion programs, or they pay for Friends Community, a sweet little Quaker school in Greenbelt. For high school, we know families in Eleanor Roosevelt's tag program, College Park Academy (we're keeping an eye on it because they preference applicants from UP) and some assorted private schools, including Holton Arms and Cathedral.[/quote]

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