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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi - Op here. Our budget is up to $1.2M and would be ok with either a 2 bedroom row house or 3 br condo. We will leave DC after about 3 years and then return 3 to 4 years later from overseas. We intend to rent out the place before we leave but then look to either sell it or move into it when we return depending on our circumstances/needs.

I understand that IB is not a guarantee but since school location is our biggest consideration we would love to be strategically located for the most choices. Thanks to PP with the suggestion of trying certain clusters and then picking blocks based on that. I will start researching that.

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Do you plan to ditch the kids abroad when you return?  You are looking at this whole thing so wrong and short-sighted.  The only way to guarantee an inbound prek3/pk4 spot is to move to a neighborhood with bad elementary+ schools.[/quote]

I know, right? They're letting a $20,000 decision (rough cost of 2 years of private pre-K over public pre-K) drive their entire house purchase.

OP, if what you want is to be inbound for a good elementary school, pick that school.  $1.2 mil is enough, get you in any number of good school boundaries - Brent, Maury, some of the NW schools if you look hard. But this is DC and preschool is literally a lottery. You are not going to be able to have "great PK3" as a reasonable goal because chance plays a huge role in getting a slot.  [/quote]

It makes no sense. If they were hellbent on a DCI feeder, or had a smaller budget, then it's a reasonable question and I would not hesitate to recommend Edgewood.  But dude, just buy in upper NW and call it a day.  If you have to sell the house (which you will, because the chance of you getting into a school for PK3 that you want to attend through 8th is very small), the transaction costs and hassle of it will far exceed the cost of private for PK3 and PK4.[/quote]

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