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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yorktown is overrated. I know, because we purposefully left that school zone. Arlington schools are overcrowded and have a lot of problems one finds with overcrowded schools. The governance is also in disarray. The boundaries you see for Yorktown are a legacy effort to shoehorn some racial and economic diversity into what is otherwise would be a homogenously while, rich school.  Understand, I'm not saying Yorktown is a BAD school -- on the contrary. But it's not the end-all, be-all.

Anything on the silver line will be a long, expensive Metro commute. But lifestyle out near Loudoun is better in general. 
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WL is the same as YHS academically, it has a more diverse population.  It has an IB program.  I know many zoned for YHS that transferred to WL for IB.

If you have the $$ (home next to orange line are very pricey), it’s an incredibly convenient location and great to walk to everything.  Amazon has brought another bump in home values.  $1.75 should get you something and, yes, it’s crazg!![/quote]

+1  Because students can transfer into W-L from the other 2 HSs for IB, it has a larger cohort of high-achieving kids.  The last boundary conflict showed that people really do not want to get zoned away from W-L to Yorktown or Wakefield, which is why the school board ended up leaving it overcrowded, throwing up their hands and just adding an annex.

If you want the shortest commute, houses walkable to the Orange/Silver in Arlington and mostly zoned to W-L will do that.  FWIW, we're a few blocks from the Virginia Square station in Ashton Heights and have been happy with our schools (Long Branch/Jefferson/W-L).  Plenty of excellent Fairfax schools farther out along the Silver line but the commutes do get significantly longer/more expensive.  Personally, if I wanted to be in the Fairfax schools and commute to DC, I'd buy in McLean and drive, significantly faster than metro from farther out.[/quote]

There are express buses all up and down Columbia Pike with 10 minute headways during rush hour that can take you downtown in under 30 minutes, and back again the evening, and $1m will get you a large, nearly new construction house in much of south Arlington. it sounds like you’ve ruled out SA, but I’d encourage you to take another look; the metro isn’t as pleasant or as convenient as it was when I moved here 20 years ago. [/quote]

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