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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving to the area soon and had been thinking MoCo for the schools but this forum paints a bleak picture. Would any of you prefer a VA district to MCPS?[/quote]

Don't go by DCUM. You will be better off talking to real people.[/quote]

Agreed. Also, don't move ANYWHERE "for the schools". Find an area you like, with a residence you can afford, with transportation options that work for you. [/quote]

This.  [i]Consider[/i] the schools once you narrow it down to what else works.  Don't depend on the schools being exactly as advertised, either to the good or the bad.  Almost all area school systems end up with better performance in wealthier areas; some of that is peer cohort, both influence on a student and logistics of teaching/administering at a particular school.

Long ago, MCPS was the best in the area, but was eclipsed by FCPS back in the 80s, if not the 70s.  It still maintained at a reasonably high level, but demographic and political changes have had impacts, and there's a lot of discontent from the now much greater heterogeneity (coming from all angles).  Still considered very good when viewed nationally.

FCPS, itself, has changed, but perhaps not as much.  The counties that used to be considered exurban (Loudoun, Howard) have in the past 3 decades attracted much more UMC development than was the case for them earlier, not entirely unlike MoCo in the 50s-70s and Fairfax in the 60s-80s, each corresponding with an unsurprising rise in education standard.

DC, which was a disaster, got better with gentrification over the past 20 years or so, but still isn't where the suburban counties are, as a whole.  Arlington, which hollowed out in the 70s/80s from a quality of education perspective, rebounded afterwards with similar gentrification.  To some degree, the same goes for Alexandria city.  (Note, as a good amount termed Alexandria is in Fairfax County instead of Alexandria City, and there are variations, there.)  PG, which was terrible, has improved considerably.  I'm not as familiar with Anne Arundel or Frederick, but I would imagine something of the same developing exurban paradigm.

The only one that may not have developed that way is Prince William, and I can't claim familiarity, there, but I would guess the quality of education is still considerably dependent on economic status, and there are UMC communities there, as well.[/quote]

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