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No. The assumption is that all Bethesda high schools will be way better than elsewhere (controversial, I know). So you want Woodward, or WJ, or WW, or BCC. I am not familiar with Churchill so cannot comment. I've heard Rockville is not as good. So if your priority is to hit any of these clusters and avoid the others, you need to be at the geographic epicenter, because they won't bus your kid that far as to cross half them to another high school. That's all.

Naturally, we all have other considerations, such as commute, walkability, feel of the neighborhood, availability of homes you like and that you can afford (!), preference of X, Y, Z elementaries and middle schools... so all this needs to be integrated into your reasoning.

We ended up close to downtown Bethesda (west side), because of commute, walkability and we wanted to be in-bounds for the Bethesda Elementary School, as it has a focus on special needs and one of our children has special needs. So our cluster is BCC, and will likely stay that way. East Bethesda might be moved to another cluster.
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The OP is thinking about [i]Kensington[/i]. That's B-CC and the DCC (Einstein), no? Do you think that the OP is concerned about being rezoned from Einstein to Woodward? [/quote]

OP wouldn't be posting if you were right, PP.
We're talking about staying in Bethesda clusters. [/quote]

Then what? OP is concerned about being rezoned from B-CC to Woodward?[/quote][/quote]
Try to keep up. Kensington has fought for decades to stay in the WJ cluster, and each time there's a new boundary change on the horizon, they as well as east Bethesda and some parts of Chevy Chase are first in line to be rezoned to DCC schools. Hence OP's very relevant question. [/quote]

So OP is concerned about being rezoned from Walter Johnson to Woodward? That was the original question.[/quote]

Possibly, or from WJ to Einstein.  Some have suggested that Woodward could become part of the DCC, which seems untenable for some people.[/quote]

But Einstein is projected to be overcrowded too, so Woodward will draw on boundaries currently slated for WJ and Einstein to make up the new Woodward population (there's debate as to whether Woodward will also draw on BCC and Wheaton boundaries too).  If you buy in an area currently zoned for WJ, the only thing that will happen is that you MIGHT be redistricted to Woodward.  Woodward and WJ are about a mile apart distance-wise, so it would be about the same commute from any WJ-zoned Kensington neighborhood to high school.   People are up in arms (unnecessarily so, IMO) as to whether Woodward will be a "bad" school because some kids who currently go to Einstein will now go to Woodward. [/quote]

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