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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a Cap Hill family that started in public and then moved mid- elementary for upper NW privates. If you are prioritizing school, would not move here. We love the Hill for many many reasons but the schools are a mess. Even the best schools are in flux and have serious downsides (Brent feeds to an undesirable middle, Maury is getting combined with another school, Ludlow is ok and on the rise but the boundary is more H street than Cap Hill, and Peabody Watkins continues to suffer under poor leadership). They all culminate in Eastern which isn’t performing at all. I do not regret moving to the Hill because we’ve otherwise loved it and have amazing friends but we have commuted to school (first in Gtown and then to our children’s middle and upper campus). Talk to actual parents, not just DCUM people. Look at the school budgets and PTA notes of the schools you are considering. [/quote]

+100 Great community, awful schools beyond ECE (even the charters). We live in Brookland--no good options here. Would not move here.[/quote]

Another Capitol Hill family and totally agree. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have bought in upper NW or the burbs. We've been troubleshooting our school situation since our kids first entered PK because the schools here are so uneven (including MANY genuinely bad schools). We are now planning to move between elementary and MS (out of DC, and actually out of the area entirely) because we found an elementary school situation that is okay but we have no real path here other than playing the lottery and hoping it works out, which would also require us to commute far to school.

We bought here before kids and then were persuaded by friends and neighbors who told us the schools were good and "getting better" and there are so many other great things about living on the Hill with kids. Like 90% of those friends and neighbors have moved away when their kids hit MS. Not kidding. [b]Only the die hards, or people who luck into charter spots and are willing to do the commute, stick around. It's all a big lie! It's my biggest parenting regret.[/b][/quote]

Yep. We are actually here for the long haul (through HS) because of lottery luck and DS is settled into school/friends/etc, but the schools local to Capitol Hill have not and will not get better. Families went the private school route and are happy but also can well afford it.

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Another Cap Hill family that also agrees. DCPS policies make it next to impossible to improve the school situation. They don’t want another Ward 3 here. [/quote]

Ward 3 parent here. They don’t want a Ward 3 anywhere.  If you move here you will definitely get the best schools in the city.  But be prepared to fight each year to keep them that way.  [/quote]

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