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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have one child in 5th grade in a public school on the hill. We rent our house and are interested in buying in the spring. Would prefer to stay in public school and buy in a location where we are satisfied(ish) with the school situation through high school. Budget is around 1.3M. Child is very artistic, loves theatre and creative writing. Average student.

We’re finding this to be such a difficult decision. Part of it is the tension between the reality that from a selfish/adult-focuser perspective, we’d prefer to stay in the city, as close to downtown as possible. Even if we embrace the idea of moving to the suburbs, where to go is tricky. People with kids in MCPS seem miserable, though at least by spring the boundary issue should be largely resolved. I also get that MCPS used to be the gold standard and is slipping, but could be okay with that provided we can get 7 decent years out of it.  But the threads are full of people saying they’d not choose MCPS if they had to do things over again, and I’m not sure what to do with that. Trying to learn more about Virginia; apparently Fairfax is also redoing boundaries and it also feels too far from the city.  Maybe Arlington? Also concerned about state wide politics.  We are very interested in Jackson Reed but the budget is limiting.

A lot of this is comparing apples to oranges and I have no idea how to move this forward. I’d like to at least make some kind of shortlist so we could visit some middle school open houses. If you were in our shoes with our budget, where would you go?[/quote]

Take what you read on DCUM with a grain of salt. [/quote]

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