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[quote=Anonymous]Capitol Park has some designated affordable units but many are market rate (there are also several Capitol Park properties--the apartments don't all have the same owners and the townhouses are 2 different condo properties).  I love living in SW and you could definitely get a nice place that allows dogs for $3k a month.  It's convenient to transit, the Mall, baseball, and has a grocery store and library right in the neighborhood.

This is a newer condo building with an outdoor swimming pool, basically across the street from Amidon: https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/apa/4414868148.html

Amidon's test scores are going up but it isn't like Brent, Maury, or places in upper NW in terms of average academic achievement, the financial resources of the families, or the number of parents who are actively involved.  I know you're only planning to stay a couple years, but it feeds to Jefferson, which seems to have a very good principal and big improvements in test scores.  Right now, SW is zoned for Wilson, but the boundary and feeder pattern rules are being reconsidered and it doesn't sound like you'll be here through high school anyway.

I think you should make sure to get opinions from people whose kids are in the upper grades at the schools you're considering and visit those classrooms.  Since DC currently has a rule that if you get into a school out of bounds you can go to its destination middle school a lot of kids leave schools with less desirable feeder patterns in grades 4 and 5.  There is also a big exodus of 5th graders to charters that start in that grade.  So PK looks different from 2nd grade looks different from 5th in the number and demographics of its students at various schools.[/quote]

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