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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the OP. I do not want to pay 200K more for a home zoned for Walter Johnson and then get rezoned in a few years when we could have bought a home for $200K less across Connecticut Ave zoned for Einstein. A home is the largest purchase we will ever make. I want to know definitively which schools we are getting for the price, and if we are stretching for a home zones for good schools, I can’t afford to then pay for private if resining doesn’t go well. And yes, test scores and schools do matter to a lot of people. That is why the current price differential in this area exists. If it didn’t matter, the homes in Kensington zones for different schools would not be so differently priced. The main reason we are moving to the burbs is schools and  because we need another bedroom. Private schools around here go for $40K a year so with 2 children only $100K will not cover that difference - unless you are only talking a year of high school. I’m trying to understand the situation better but 4 years seems a long time to wait to make decisions that significantly impact real estate value and families.  [/quote]

Good luck with that - school zoning is NEVER guaranteed - as much as people might want it to be.  That said, you are not going to be significantly affected between Woodward and WJ -  the demographics will be much the same for either one - indeed that's what rezoning would try to accomplish as much as it can without resorting to cross-county busing.[/quote]

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