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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you would be happiest in South Arlington, which is quite diverse and (generally) more chill when it comes to schools than North Arlington, which also happens to be one of the least diverse parts of the DC region. The classroom sizes will be in the middle of the range you described.[/quote]

OP, if schools are important to you, don't consider South Arlington.  It's more diverse than North Arlington, but the schools are not that great.  [/quote]

OP, take this with a grain of salt. School quality, as measured by test scores, is mostly indistinguishable from the family income of the student body. SA has always been more diverse, racially and economically, than south Arlington. Most of north Arlington actually had neighborhood covenants and the effects are still being felt today even if todays residents themselves are oblivious to the history. There are parts of both you’d likely be interested in and not, so blanket statements like the PP might not be very helpful to you. As in all places, actually integrated schools are not common; housing segregation drives school segregation but there are a few actually integrated schools in both NA and SA.[/quote]

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