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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you're opting for private, if you want high quality elementary schools avoid South Arlington altogether and avoid the 1-2 weaker elementary schools in N Arlington and you should be fine. The rest of the N Arlington elementary schools are pretty much inter-changeable so re-zoning doesn't really matter at all. [/quote]

Or you can find a home you like anywhere in Arlington and send your kids to the neighborhood school or try for a choice school. Arlington is one unified school district. [/quote]

I'm the PP- I did this, and was not satisfied with the neighborhood school (which happened to be 50% FARMs with all the attendant social challenges that affect classroom learning), and then sorely learned that transfer, "choice" options are basically limited to other low-income schools (except for Arlington Traditional which is next to impossible to lottery into), because this is how the privileged denizens with the foresight to buy mapped to good schools "protect" their high performing schools. So I now own a very expensive home in Arlington and am shelling out private school tuition unless I sell my home and move to a school I would be happy with.

If you're not so particular about school quality, then by all means, buy in a sub-par area, but don't mistakenly presume as I did that you will have any real choice beyond your neighborhood school and other low-performing schools. [/quote]

You sound like a real peach. [/quote]

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