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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. [b]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. [/b]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]

Sigh.

Kensington and the areas I mentioned are at risk of being clustered into the Downcounty Consortium (of which Bethesda Chevy Chase HS is *not* part) for purposes of diversity.

MCPS and the Board of Education have always had this hankering to bus students in an attempt to close the achievement gap through diversification. They recently voted to weigh this criteria MORE than others. They also stated that long bus rides would be out of the question. This means that in all logic, a student living in the Walt Whitman district out west is not going to have two hour rush hour bus ride to Einstein. However, the white and wealthy eastern fringes, including Kensington, east Bethesda and Chevy Chase, are in the running.

The fact that Woodward is very close to Walter Johnson does NOT guarantee that students will come from Kensington. Because again - diversity!

Get it now?[/quote]

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