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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]How much does being three miles from a high school effect housing price.[/b]  From what I've seen even in rural areas with easy drives, it knocks of a hundred or two hundred grand from the price of the house.

Most people would prefer a school that is a seven or eight over being three miles in congested traffic from the school.[/quote]

It does not. If we go by proximity to a high school, Travilah ES and Dufief ES should go to QO not Wootton. The homes in Travilah are 1.5 million while those in QO are 900K.

Its just the reputation of the school and Wootton will not suffer if they move to Crown. Their branding still stands. Wootton parents want it all - a new school building, and it has to be closer to home, while the rest of us pay taxes to renovate Wootton, when a new one already exists in Crown and can pull Wootton families.

They should pull in from Gaithersburg, QO and Wootton to make a NEW Wootton at Crown.  I'm not familiar with the RM, Churchill, Rockville, Whitman and their proximities, but change the boundary for them too. Redistrict everyone and fill up Crown. Demolish the existing Wootton building.

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Housing prices won't stand though.[/quote]

This is how people shop for houses.  They filter by the top schools, then they scroll down and look at the proximity to the schools.  Take Urbana for example there is a premium for being less than a mile from the school, but there are plenty of fabulous houses as long as you are willing to drive three miles.

So, what happens next people who would have payed 1.5 million for house next to Wooton start looking at other districts.  Then house prices start going down, no one wants a run-down house far from the school.  Then it's no longer economically segregated.  Here they come, the FARMS kids.

So yeah, the good reputation won't last for long.

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