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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But if you really need wealthy middle and high schools right now, the Town of Kensington and the Kensington Parkwood area are part of the north Bethesda schools, and the housing prices are much higher.[/quote]

OP here. Could you clarify what this means? I most definitely do not want to live in Bethesda, north or otherwise. I really have my heart set on the area from Kensington across Silver Spring to Takoma Park.I was just wondering what people's thoughts are on middle and high school.

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Not a PP in this thread, but we live in the Woodside area, near downtown Silver Spring.  Our elementary school gets great reviews, the middle school (Sligo MS) not so much, and the high school (Einstein) is IMO a hidden gem.  Our child doesn't go there as she is in a magnet HS program, but we looked at it (with skepticism I will admit) and were very pleasantly surprised by how much we liked it.  I did a follow-up visit and spoke with some teachers and the head of the IB program there and that further reassured me - there is a core population of highly motivated, highly able, college-bound kids there, doing great work at school and in the community.  Had DD not been admitted to and chosen the magnet for HS, we would have been 100% comfortable sending her to Einstein.

I don't know what to say about Sligo MS.  We managed to avoid it (magnet), but honestly, having visited and spoken with friends and neighbors, we were not comfortable with it.

Silver Spring Int'l MS gets good reviews as does Takoma Park MS.[/quote]

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