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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wakefield will probably become more and more like W&L (see previous post about Barcroft/Arlington Ridge area) over the next five years. Those neighborhoods have a lot to offer (despite not being off a metro line) and will continue to attract middle class families. There's been a lot of construction in the Barcroft neighborhood especially (Four Mile Run). 
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Wakefield serves many extremely poor neighborhoods so even if all the wealthy Arlington Ridge kids go to Wakefield in five years, the school will still lag behind the other Arlington high schools. It will take another generation and roughly 5-10 years of post-streetcar Columbia Pike gentrification with a net loss in subsidized housing for the student body at Wakefield to significantly change. No South Arlington elementary school has experienced the explosive growth of the North Arlington schools due to affluent homebuyers with lots of kids except maybe Oakridge. That may change with the streetcar but that's years from now. [/quote]

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