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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]

A lot of families in UP choose University park elementary or the K-8 magnet options ( French immersion, Montessori, Arts magnet etc) and/or test into Glenarden Woods (the number 1 elementary school in Maryland in case you didn't know- but of course it's a TAG only school so it would be worrying if it weren't) . For middle , College Park academy is very popular but there are other options, including FCS as previously mentioned or the local parochial schools like Holy Redeemer, which gets a lot of kids joining in middle school. There are also some specialty programs like visual arts at Hyattsville middle I believe or TAG at Greenbelt middle but I don't know much about those. For high school, again CPA is popular, or testing into the Science and Math program at Roosevelt, or the wide array of catholic schools (De Matha, Seton, etc) . If you position yourself well, most places will be within cycling, public transit or walking distance. Pretty awesome to be honest. University Park is beautiful. Calvert Hills also, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, College Park , Berwyn Heights. Definitely the best place we've lived. [/quote]

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