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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are renting and looking at buying. Have a toddler. What is the ideal elementary to middle school trajectory? Looks like Maury, Brent, Watkins are good? Payne? And are there any middle schools I should want to be in zone for, ideally?[/quote]

Disregard all the useless details you're getting (who cares which school has a principal selection process going now for your purposes 10 years from now?!). Even test scores (applying to grades 3-5) are very relative from where you stand. While it may make sense to factor preferences regarding preschool and elementary school into your home search in Capitol Hill, DC's school choice model and rapidly changing landscape really do not ask of you to prioritize your options in this way. Access to your work, shopping, parks, and transportation may matter more. So safely value those highly, proceed accordingly, and then figure out how school may fit in. As you've probably come to understand, Capitol Hill is a wide-ranging notion that could have you look as far south as Southwest (including Amidon-Bowen) and as far north as Shaw with its own elementary school options, with strewn in between a whole host of good charter options.

A level-headed approach to renting/buying (especially if you buy) a home is your best guarantee that you will be content and happy with the size, location, and layout of your house, family (and school!) over the next 10+ years. If you start compromising on those factors just to, say, find yourself near one of the super-coveted options, chances are you'll be unhappy because the rooms are too small, the stairs too old, the kitchen too cramped just about when all of those factors you were trying to take into account start to actually matter.[/quote]

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