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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do most of the kids walk to and from school? I’m deciding between MoCo, NOVA and JR to relocate to for HS and for my particular kid, I really value him developing a good friend group. Seems like a mostly walkable school facilitates that better than bussing/driving. [/quote]

You should care more about in-state college options and costs vs. the things you mention above.  DC TAG does not bridge the entire gap between in-state and OOS at all, so if you care about having UMD or UVA/W&M/Virginia Tech et al as in-state options, that should be a larger factor for you.

The areas you would consider "walkable" are fairly expensive for SFHs.  I consider say anything within a 1 mile radius (and that could be a stretch) as walkable.  There are reasonable apartments and condos, especially in some older buildings on CT Avenue.

My guess is that 50% of the kids that are in-bound for Jackson-Reed in these areas attend, while there is a large %age going to Walls or private schools.[/quote]

of course you’re not wrong about college but my particular kid needs to get through high school happily in a place that values kids of all types with lower barrier to entry activities. If you can think of a good HS option in NOVA or MoCo I all all ears but they all seem massive (Blair, WL) or bad cultural fits (Ws) or basically indistinguishable/worse academically than JR (Einstein). [/quote]

BCC in Bethesda is similar to JR in terms of cultural fit and you will find many walkable areas.  Not sure what doesn’t work for you for Whitman as I would say the top 20% of JR is a lot like Whitman kids.

I don’t know VA as well other than Langley and McLean HSs are popular options.[/quote]

Thanks. I think BCC has a bigger catchment area and a lot more busing. But yes, it’s the closest thing. But then I wonder if I actually want to move to Bethesda just to get $10,000 more a year for college?

Everything I’ve heard about the Ws sounds like a poor fit. I don’t like being in schools where every family believes they have an “advanced learner.” [/quote]

FWIW the most tiger parents I know have or had kids at JR. The Whitman parents are comparatively chill. YMMV.[/quote]

I’m not doubting your experience but it’s probably an outlier. JRHS almost by definition does not have tiger parents- they all went private / moved to MoCo for HS. Whitman OTOH…. [/quote]

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