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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]  Luckily for you, 7 years ago people at Brent DID buy that line, or at least decided to give it a try.  Within 3 years, Brent it went from being on the short list to close because of underenrollment, to full enrollment.  Now it has crazy waitlists.  Given the right conditions, change can happen VERY fast.  I don't own property in SW, but that is starting to look like a fantastic place to own.    [/quote]

That was before the explosion of ES charters like Yu Ying and Inspire DC, and before the CH Montessori and Peabody made more room; those days seem to be gone.  The "right conditions" are simply much harder to find than 6 or 7 years ago.  Watch the Payne and Ludlow-Taylor PTAs struggle to keep IB families past K for evidence of this.  The middle-class cohort on the Hill is already spread too thin.  Moreover, the Brent District has very little low-income housing and no homeless shelter (vs. Payne, where 1/3 of the kids come from the big one on Mass Ave.), unlike most of the others on the Hill.  I agree that SW may be "different" due to the surge in development/town house construction, but wouldn't bank on it.

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