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[quote=Transplant_1]Hearst is a small, neighborhood school, if that's what you're looking for.  2 classes per grade.  Many inzone.  Some out of zone that seem to get off lottery, or, it seems there is some sort of DCPS program to place students at Hearst for diversity.  We walk to and from school, along the way parents run into each other, get to know each other, build community, hang out after drop off and pick up to chat.  It's very parent heavy (not nanny heavy, which I hear is the case with some of the other local elementary school.)

Now older, my kids walk to and from school on their own.  After school they self release, play in the playground, then walk home.  I don't need to continually set up playdates and drive them.  They go on weekends to Hearst field and playground to play pickup soccer, basketball, playground, with high chance of running into others.  it has become their "center" -- a place of safety, fun, belonging, being known and knowing others.  One child is now in 7th at local middle school, the other in 4th.  Middle school may not be working out for us, so we may move. But our lives have been super enrichened -- friends, memories, community, independence - for the years we were at Hearst.  If I had to re-do, I would definitely do our "lives at Hearst".  I'm now onto figuring out lives for middle and high school[/quote]

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