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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you care about GS ratings, you aren't going to be interested in either Blair or Kennedy. The schools in what is called the DCC have the worst performance reputation in MCPS. The DCC is different from other areas and has been the number #1 focus of MCPS for improvement for years. This is good and bad. On the good side there is more choice at the high school level and many magnet/special programs to attract UMC/MC to the area. Many of these special programs are only available if you are in the DCC so your kid is not competing against other kids in the county to get in. The schools are not under resourced. On the bad side, the school performance isn't changing or improving. The academic and skill level range is a big problem. Many kids in these areas are 2-3 years behind grade level. MCPS doesn't do tracking until high school so you have one teacher trying to get kids with huge academic deficiencies up to grade level. If your kid is independently motivated and you are willing to heavily supplement at home you'll be fine. Parents of kids that are more easily influenced by their peers or who are smart but not smart enough to get into the gifted program run into problems and get left behind in the slower classes.

While there are several posters who love Silver Spring on this board, [b]Silver Spring is generally not a desirable place to live [/b].Its cheap and that is basically the only draw. Another poster used the saying "People want the Silver Spring price without the price of Silver Spring". Montgomery County does not offer many professional jobs so many commute to DC an/or VA. Its just not practical to commute from SS to VA. Silver Spring used to attract two income families that have commutes into DC and Baltimore or Columbia but now those families are choosing Howard County schools as they've surpassed MCPS. Families with one spouse commuting to VA are choosing VA or the western side of the county where the schools are good.

I'd suggest looking in Howard if you need to be north of the city and looking in the Churchill or Walter Johnson clusters if there might be a possibility that you would work in VA or downtown DC. Churchill is generally known for being super expensive but its fall/winter now. There are always older houses in Potomac that do go in the 700-800K range as retirees just want to sell and move on. You just need to plan to update things over time. These houses are usually nicer and larger than the ones in Blair but not as nice as the new houses up in Poplar Run. The upside to Churchill is that it holds its value if you maintain the house, is far enough away from the bussing fears to avoid that problem and is a super safe no crime area with the best schools in the county. [/quote]
Silver Spring is generally not a desirable to live to the Klan and its supporters,  and closet racists.  They are afraid of diversity so they rather move to places where there are less diversity even though none of those places can match Silver Spring schools academic achievements. [/quote]

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