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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What exactly is your main concern? The actual quality of the education at the school or property values?[/b] If it is property values, you'll need to pay the money and hope that nothing changes. If it is the quality of education, you have a lot more flexibility because many, many schools in MoCo offer a high-quality education--but you're going to have to set aside the "W" school mentality and start looking at the more detailed information on schools. Woodward--like most other schools in MoCo--will probably offer a fine education.[/quote]

That is my question too.[/quote]

Not the original poster, but I assume they are concerned about both the school quality AND the property value. They are parents and house buyers seeking out the MoCo schools forum.[/quote]

They are "new parents" concerned about the "school quality" (whatever that even means) of a high school that hasn't even opened yet.

OP, take the advice of the top PP:

1. if you're concerned about property values, you will have to pay the money and hope nothing changes
2.[b] if you're concerned about school quality, you can live in many places in the county where you don't have to pay $1 million for a detached house, because a lot of schools in MCPS provide a good education, and the Bethesda = good/everywhere else = bad reasoning is simply false. In fact, I'm inclined to say that the single most important factor in making a school a good school is the principal, and nobody should buy property based on who is currently the principal of a given school.[/b][/quote]

THIS. It's highly important for parents not to rely on Great School ratings.  Here's a great article that explains why:  https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/12/5/21121858/looking-for-a-home-you-ve-seen-greatschools-ratings-here-s-how-they-nudge-families-toward-schools-wi 
On the topic of great Principals- I 100% agree and can attest that as a parent who has had kids in a lower-rated school with a great principal and then moved to a higher-rated school with a terrible principal; I wanted to go back to the lower rated one in a heartbeat! My kids are now in HS (one of the lowest rated in MCPS), and truthfully, it is a warm and caring place and my kids are thriving there- academically and socially.[/quote]

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