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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you should buy assuming you might stay there until your kid is in HS. As a PP noted, a lot of people get priced out of where they think they want to live after their "starter" home, and then you are in the position of either staying in your starter, move to a worse neighborhood for a better house, or move out of the city for lower COL (which means not inner suburbs, which are mostly just as expensive as the city itself, in some places more expensive).

So do not just look at elementary, look at school pyramid.

As someone who lives on the East side, stuck in our starter, with Dunbar as our IB high school, all I can say is: don't do what I did. Also do not rely on the lottery to bail you out of an elementary or middle school you don't like -- there are no guarantees and the more desirable schools get harder to get into every day.

So my advice is either to buy IB for the J-R HS pyramid OR undershoot your budget and put away money for private (which you could definitely do if you are willing to buy a condo, you could get something for 500-600 in a good neighborhood with a solid elementary and just tuck away the difference). I would also look at close in suburbs.

I have so, so many school regrets in DC. Most of the advice on here thus far is bad. There are so many of us who feel stuck in houses we can't upgrade from, in schools that aren't meeting our kid's needs, just trying to figure it out. I would have made much different choices if I had it to do again, starting with focusing on high school pyramid and not assuming we'd be able to trade in our starter when it was convenient for us.[/quote]

This.  You need to look at middle and high school when looking at elementary.  We did and thus are able to stay in the city.  If not, would have moved to the burbs

Big mistake to be so short sighted with your lens just to elementary.  Also the whole neighborhood thing EOTP is very fleeting because many families will leave their poorly performing IB school, go charter or move.  [/quote]

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