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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question was not about whether families should do it (rent an apartment and live there July through December before moving back to the house they own in Shaw or Logan Circle or Michigan Park), but if people know of any families who have done it.  We talk about it all the time on DCUM as something you can or shouldn't do.  But does anyone ever do it?

I know a lot of lottery families and a lot of families that move from one JKML boundary to another and stay at their previous school. And I know someone using a grandparent's address. But no one I know falls into this category. Maybe brief renters tell parents they lotteried?  Or maybe there's always an easier, better plan b?

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I think people talk about it all the time and rarely do it because the current state of schools in DC is that there is no guarantee your kid will get a decent high school, but the odds are high. Being able to say, “if all else fails, we’ll rent an apartment inbounds for JR” makes people more comfortable waiting out the application/lottery process and/or taking a chance on a school like MacArthur. But most of the time things work out, so very few people wind up pulling that rip cord. [/quote]

Agree.  And there are fairly low cost catholic schools. Of my large cohort of ward 5 families who I met in PK3, none moved to NWDC or arlington. They lotteried into JR feeders, chose one of the dc magnets, dci, latin, catholic schools, or ended up at a pricy private. The latin families seem happiest, FWIW. [/quote]

Interesting, I also live in Ward 5 and know tons of people who moved to upper NW for schools. Other paths I see -- Latin, DCI, BASIS, lotterying into a JR path and now their kids take transit there, moving to Bethesda, private. Lots of families in all these categories.[/quote]

(Add to that Walls, Banneker and McKinley Tech)[/quote]

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