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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it's not simple unless you have a kid with excellent grades AND income such that you wouldn't miss the money.

The middle class leaves DC for MoCo or NoVa and their good public schools, and the poors can only afford DCPS.

That's all.[/quote]

This sums it up except I would add that there are some people who are satisfied with relatively inexpensive privates for middle and then can find a DCPS public magnet they are fine with. Which is something some middle class families can swing (3 years of maybe 10-20k per year) especially if they only have one or two kids (and some of these schools will give you a sibling discount but only if they attend at the same time.

But the caveats are (1) the private will almost certainly be a parochial school and OP has stated that they don't want a religious school and (2) not all of theses schools will actually offer you the improvement in quality you are looking for over DCPS. They are less expensive for a reason.

People without gobs of money that enables them to either pay for private all the way through or move inbound for the best schools they can find don't have perfect options. So you might be looking at having to decide between (1) staying at your inbound DCPS that you aren't that happy with or (2) paying for a relatively inexpensive and easy-to-get-into private that you aren't that happy with or (3) moving. There is not right or wrong answer and all of those options have pluses and minuses that different people will rate as more or less important.

But it's not easy in the sense that you can "just" send your kid to private school for middle school and boom you've solved your school issues. You will have to continue to negoatiate with your available options and with yourselves over what you can live with.[/quote]

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