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[quote=Anonymous]Preschool admissions are competitive, just as private school admissions are competitive.  Preschools will be taking applications this fall for entry NEXT fall (yep, just like college admissions).  A full day preschool can run you depending on where and which one it is, anywhere from $7500 to close to $20,000 a year.  That does not include after care, and if you do not have a kid in pre-K, but a younger year, then the school day is about a half day and there is no after or before care (although the overall price is lower).  This is distinct from a daycare, which can provide full day coverage.  If you are going to an agency, you may be able to get into a daycare.  I would look into that first.  Many of teh good federal agency day cares are just as strong as preschools, if not stronger. Otherwise, the good daycares that are not for fed employees have crazy wait lists.  Private schools do unfortunately run $25,000 to $30,000 per year for elementary school.  Admissions can be very competitive, depending on the school (on the order of 600 applications for 20 spots).  We applied to 6 schools and our child was accepted at 1, which was fortunately one of our highest ranked choices.  As you say is true in Detroit, very few people in DC send their kids to public school if they have a choice 9some do choose it and supplement outside of school for extra academics and extracurriculars).  Coming from Detroit, DC is going to seem extremely crazy.  It is a high stress, high work hours, too many people with too much money area.  You should really look at the good public school in North Arlington, McLean, Fairfax and Montgomery County.  Any decent public elementary in DC is going to have the rental prices to go with it.  An inexpensive 3,000 square foot house zoned for an elementary school that is considered good in DC would list for sale for over $1 million and go up from there depending on  the neighborhood, and rent for a house with a yard would start at $5,000 a month in the least expensive of those areas.  There are some really nice townhouse areas of MoCo that are close in and that have good schools.  I know less about VA except that I have friends with kids in the North Arlington schools that are very happy with the schools, and they could send their kids anywhere.[/quote]

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