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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about public schools? It was mentioned in an early post but if you don't have lottery luck and don't have a gifted kid, how does the local elementary, middle and high school experience look?[/quote]

It depends on the experience you want your kids to have.  If you are open to a multi ethnic and diverse SES student body then the elementary schools are great.  My kids attend a Title one ES in PGCPS and I am very happy with it.  The elementary schools in that area also go up to 6th grade so middle school is only 2 years.

The middle school situation is slightly different.   Hyattsville Middle is OK but I don't know many folks who send their kids into the general population of the school. They have an Arts program that is supposed to be good but you must audition and it is open up to other areas of the county.  We are considering it for our child if they can get it.

Northwestern doesn't have a great reputation either but a teacher at my kids school has a son there and he is very happy with it.

An issue I have with PGCPS as a white family is that in most neighborhood MS and HSs my kid will likely be the only white kid in the class.  That's fine in ES but middle school is brutal to begin with and that additional social strain is hard to impose on a kid.   My kid is the only white kid in her grade in upper elementary and it is starting to be an issue.   Not bullying but the feeling of being different.

I live in PG and am a huge advocate for PGCPS.  We are making the system work for us but we have also budgeted for the possibility of private school for middle/high school.

If you don't have kids yet, I wouldn't worry about MS and HS.  That's 12 years away and then you can determine if you want to move further out or to MoCo.  In the meantime you will enjoy lower mortgage payments and/or a shorter commute.

As a previous poster pointed out, PGCPS could be so much better if families just committed to neighborhood schools.  But until the schools get better reputations, that isn't going to happen.  It is a vicious cycle.

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