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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is so pricey, that we based our purchase mostly on what we could afford, then school district. Anything else didn't really get to be a priority or a concern. [/quote]

I hear this quite often. People chose their home based on school stats.  One of my neighbors recently moved from Silver Spring because she wanted her son to go to Bethesda Chevy Chase HS (our zone HS) instead of Blair, which from what my co-workers say is very diverse and a "good school." My neighbor cited test scores as the difference. The differences between the schools in my opinion, weren't that much to uproot her family across the county. Is her son going regress if he goes to Blair? (On a separate note, I didn't get why her son could not apply to Bethesda Chevy Chase HS through the school district's consortium. Wouldn't MCPS's consortium include all district HS schools? Otherwise what is it really?)

When I hear this, I always feel like its a "chicken or the egg" kind of issue.  From some of the data I have seen in the Washington Post on MCPS and local blogs prior to coming here, it appears that kids with predominately white/asian students have higher standardized test scores, which appears to be the primary driver behind school rankings in the country in general. If is the primary driver for housing then those families with more means can essentially self segregate and you end up with schools that are just as segregated as housing.  Based on this, race seems to be an important factor in home buying decision making.

I guess what I don't get is, what happens if your county re-districts? Do you move again to achieve the same desired effect? I thought the greatest factor in a child's success was their parents, not their school.

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