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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I truly appreciate all the responses, thanks a lot to you all.  Will call around today.  We picked MoCO because both of us will work in ROckville/bethesda area.  In Dallas, we had pretty diverse community, that created a kind of richness in our kid's perspective of world, so i'd pick some thing that has diverse population.  If we had a choice,we'd never move from our area, but........
thanks again.[/quote]

Being from Texas, I can tell you that this area and its choices of public and private schools are so very, very different from what you would have experienced in Dallas area.  The magnets in the public schools are comparable to the best magnets in the Dallas area.  The non-magnets on the west side (the 'W's)are generally comparable to Highland Park area, and the schools "East of the Pike" are generally the quality of the middle class/UMC in Dallas area.  There is no UIL in Maryland.  There really is no comparison to Landon/Georgetown Prep/Holton etc. in Dallas, but those are $40K a year (I think the Dallas families that afford this type of tuition may just send their children to boarding school).  Prep is a Jesuit school and offers a rigorous (boys-only) education.  Holton-Arms and Landon are brother/sister schools that also offer outstanding rigorous educations.  Georgetown Day may offer the kind of diversity and worldview you are looking for.  Green Acres is a more experiential (crunchy) school.  St. Andrews and Gonzaga both offer rigorous Catholic school educations.  Sidwell (the private school of choice for many a president's child) is, as you would imagine, top-notch.[/quote]

A few minor points.

St. Andrew's is not a Catholic School. [i]t's Episcopal.

Gonzaga has many similarities to Dallas Jesuit on Inwood Rd. near LBJ. It's also Jesuit and about the same size. Gonzaga has a unique location in the heart of DC.

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