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[quote=Anonymous]If you are moving to DC with a child to start 6th grade and have options on location, then focusing on DCPS middle schools (or K-8 schools) is your best strategy. You can meanwhile also enter the lottery for charter schools that start at 6th grade such as DCI or Capital City. Among catchment areas for DCPS middle schools, I concur with prior posts that Deal and Hardy may not be your best bet, though they both have some more or less affordable apartment housing in its catchment zones. Outside of those two, look at the catchment areas of Stuart-Hobson MS and Jefferson Academy, possibly Eliot-Hine MS. These are all DCPS middle schools. While they feed into Eastern HS, which may or may not be acceptable to you, especially the first two have an excellent track record getting advanced students who want to into test-in high schools.

Our 6th grader is at Jefferson Academy and all around happy and challenged there. A very solid option you don't see discussed much on these boards. That school has a huge and, in some places, very affordable catchment area, with different housing options, ranging from single family homes to affordable apartments. Not to mention, its location is about as central as it gets.[/quote]

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