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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools are not good, but neighborhood is nice.[/quote]

This is the issue at present.  Back in the day, several decades ago, it was a highly desirable area with very good schools.  Congressional School is a good K-8 private nearby (on Sleepy Hollow), but one would then need to transfer DC somewhere else for HS.[/quote]

I heard that back in the 60s and 70s the public schools in the Lake Barcroft were among the best and wealthiest in all of FCPS. The crew team even won the Henley Royal Regatta.

There’s still a contingent of wealthy kids from the Lake who go to the public schools. It’s probably under 50% though. Feel free to correct if wrong. [/quote]

In the 60s and 70s there weren't huge differences among the public high schools in FCPS.  There were differences, just not big ones like now.

The Stuart crew won the Henley Royal Regatta in 1968.

The enrollment at Stuart started to decline in the 70s.  The School Board changed the boundaries and redistricted part of then-Jefferson to Stuart.  But for that boundary change, they probably would have turned Stuart, not Jefferson, into the STEM magnet school in the 80s.  Immigrants started pouring into the area by the mid to late 80s.

There are affluent kids who live in the Lake Barcroft/Sleepy Hollow area who go to Justice, and Lake Barcroft isn't the only expensive neighborhood that feeds into Justice.  The majority of kids who attend Justice, though, are low-income kids who live in the garden apartments near Seven Corners, Culmore, and Bailey's Crossroads.  Decades ago, it was mostly singles without kids who lived in those apartments; now there can be multiple families living in a single apartment. 
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