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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in the process of moving to MoCo for the schools and to improve our commutes (we are currently in NOVA and it is not working).

If you were moving to MCPS and had it to do again, how would go about selecting your school/neighborhood?  More focus on the comments on DCUM?  More focus on Greatschools?  Visits? (do people do that?)

We have a 4 year old and a baby and I feel enormous pressure to get this decision right.  Also, we are pretty limited, financially, for the area.[/quote]

I would not rely on DCUM.  Go visit the school.  [b][u]Talk to parents whose kids are at the school.[[/u]/b]  Look at the neighborhood where the school is located.[/quote]

NP here- this may be a dumb question, but is it appropriate to visit a school BEFORE you even have kids??  We hope to start a family soon but are looking to buy a house now. We don't want to have to move again before the unborn reach school age, so finding a neighborhood with a good ES is important (and maybe MS, HS is too far out to think about).  I've looked through all the stats on the ESs in our search radius but visiting now seems premature, don't you think?  We have talked to the occasional neighbor when out hunting, which was helpful and I expect we'll do that again. But beyond that, we don't know a lot of parents with kids in school yet.  So I feel a bit lost.  If we were to visit schools, what should we even be looking for??[/quote]

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