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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm looking for a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment. Currently living in a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom condo. Really wanting a 2nd bathroom to have my own space lol. My budget is no more than $1900-2000 a month. Newer kitchen. I looked at the new apartments in Laurel off of Konterra but I wasn't to sure about the schools. Vansville I believe and Bond Mill.[/quote]

Bond Mill is an excellent ES that has typically scored higher on standardized scores (e.g. greatschool ratings) than nearby ES schools in Burtonsville, Wheaton and northern Silver Spring.  It feeds into Martin Luther King Jr Middle School, another good, solid school.  The Konterra properties should be zoned for Bond Mill.  I live in the neighborhood near the hospital east of Van Dusen and that area is zoned for Vansville which is good, but as good as Bond Mill.  The real weakness is that there is no good high school so unless your child test into the magnet program at Eleanor Roosevelt HS, you have an issue then.

However, I personally think that you'll do better living in Laurel in the Bond Mill and Vansville school zones than you will be at the Burtonsville schools.  If you are going to look in the Burtonsville area, make sure to look for places west of US-29 and not east.  The area east of US-29 (especially from around Greencastle to Briggs Chaney to Fairland) has signicantly higher crime rates annually than West Laurel or West Burtonsville.  You want to be careful around those areas.

If looking in West Laurel, the Windsor at Contee Crossing is a nice community and easy walking distance to the shopping center at Contee and US-1.  [/quote]

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