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A visit to the school is better than looking at the great schools website. Find out much teacher turnover there is from year to year. If you know of a couple other families that have the energy and resources to be school advocates in your neighborhood look at it together. That's what happened to Hyattsville Elementary several years ago.
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This is what happened at Spellman in Cheverly as well.  A few years ago some families who were school advocates really got involved in the school and it resulted in a lot of higher income families taking a chance on the school.  The vast majority of them stayed and are very active in the PTA, volunteering etc and the extra parental involvement has made a HUGE difference.  They also have a great Principal, staff etc.  I'm not suggesting that the lower income families aren't "good" or interested in helping it is just that if you are working 2 jobs and raising a family you don't have time.

And Friends is a GREAT school....but it is also over $16K a year for kindergarten and completely out of your way if you commute to the city.  [/quote]

Didn't Spellman's test scores fall drastically over the past few years? I hear horror stories about how dismissive the principal and staff in general are of the parents at GNS and that there's really bad the communication between the school and parents. If you are going to send your child to a PG public school lottery is the way to go.
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