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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for all the helpful information & opinions!

It's interesting that a few posters mentioned Hearst as just this morning I came across a listing for another house that I like (as with all the houses, we'll have to actually look at it before making an offer, obviously --we're planning on coming to DC for a house hunting trip next week)  & it happens to zoned for Hearst. Judging by both the information available online about test scores & diversity & the opinions here, that looks like it could be a great option, as well. The only reason we haven't really looked into Janney, Lafayette & Mann at this point is because we haven't found any houses we like that fit our criteria ( # of bedrooms, proximity to a metro, etc.) that are zoned for those particular schools.

I guess the overriding opinion seems to be that all these schools (& the ones they feed into) are good choices both in terms of academics & diversity so we should just choose based on the housing options? Frankly, in terms of diversity, although both economic & racial diversity would be ideal, I'm slightly more concerned about the former, particularly at the middle & high school levels. The schools I attended growing up were extremely homogeneous in that pretty much everyone came from a wealthy family. Looking back, I don't think it was a particularly healthy environment in many ways so that's not something I really want for my own kids (hence the general preference for public vs. private schools).[/quote]

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