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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in the process of moving to MoCo for the schools and to improve our commutes (we are currently in NOVA and it is not working).

If you were moving to MCPS and had it to do again, how would go about selecting your school/neighborhood?  More focus on the comments on DCUM?  More focus on Greatschools?  Visits? (do people do that?)

We have a 4 year old and a baby and I feel enormous pressure to get this decision right.  Also, we are pretty limited, financially, for the area.[/quote]

Honestly I would not stress too much about it, at least for elementary.  It might make sense to pay attention to HS clusters, but there are a fair number of decent options there.

First, MCPS is MCPS-- the differences from ES to ES are not going to be drastic (for example, MCPS limits parental fundraising, unlike DC, so teacher-student ratios will be roughly similar, although some schools have more classes and are less likely to have a lot of variation from year to year than other schools, and some schools might be Title I schools with smaller ratios but more economic diversity).

Second, the big place where there are differences from ES to ES is in the SES level of the parents.   On the one hand, there probably isn't too much you can do about this, since your housing budget will limit what neighborhoods you are looking at.  On the other hand, it's not clear how much it matters.  Yes kids in the high SES neighborhoods will have high tests scores, but that doesn't mean your kid will be more successful at that school than at another-- it is likely more a reflection of the families than of the school.[/quote]

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