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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about pricing because I am not in the neighborhood, but Tenleytown had excellent schools for elementary, middle, and high schools. Good luck![/quote]

Tenleytown is Dc, right ?[/quote]

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If you are going to be working in NoVA and you want MCPS, you want the 20816 zipcode so you can easily get to Virginia via Chain Bridge or the Beltway At Clara Barton Pky. If you also want diversity, you want the part of 20816 that feeds to Westland MS and B-CC HS instead of Pyle and Whitman. B-CC is not particularly convenient to the neighborhoods in 20816 but Westland and the elementary schools - Westbrook in particular - are. So if you're doing drop off and pickup with ES and MS they are right there and your HS kid will need to be more independent.[/quote]

I live in 20816 and work in Arlington.  Commute over Chain Bridge is easy, takes 20-30 minutes...can also go over Key Bridge for about the same drive, depending on traffic.  I don't bother with the Beltway, but it is easy -- 10-15 minutes to McLean in non-rush hour traffic.  I would look at neighborhoods around Westbrook and Wood Acres -- agree that diversity is better further east, but your commute to NoVA can nearly double if you are in East Bethesda, frankly...even if you're just over at Somerset (Chevy Chase).  I have done that drive and it's shocking how much time those extra 3-4 miles can take to cover.  Since you have kids at all levels, Wood Acres would be more convenient than Westbrook because the schools are within 5-10 minutes of each other.  But Whitman is probably the least diverse of the Bethesda clusters.  Strong academics, though.  For Westbrook, the ES and MS are close together, but BCC can be a bit of a haul, especially during rush hour, since it is on the other side of "downtown" Bethesda.[/quote]

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