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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know much about Barnard but there are a number of good options in that neighborhood.

If you tell us your budget we can tell you three or four neighborhoods to target with decent and/or up-and-coming elementary schools.[/quote]

We are looking to spend max 800k for a small place (2-3 bedrooms). I previously lived in petworth in my early 20s so definitely interested in that area, but don't know much about the schools.

Thank you! [/quote]

You should look into McLean Gardens in NW DC. 2-3 bedroom condos are in your price range and zoned for either Hearst-Deal-Jackson Reed or Eaton-Hardy-Macarthur.[/quote]

+1 this is the best advice[/quote]

+2. Couldn’t agree more, as a Petworth family with a middle schooler. We “won” the lottery and got into a Deal-JR feeder in upper elementary, but it took years of lotterying, school hopping, and putting a big kid through a September school switch to get here. And now that I know my kid’s academic needs, I can see that Deal is the best DC can offer for my DC (we turned down DCI feeders and then Basis for academic and non-academic reasons), but MCPS, Fairfax, or even Arlington would be much better academically for my advanced kid.

DC has an easy school commute on the bus, our Petworth starter home is beyond affordable, and we’re settled. But we never fully got the community that we saw in our OOB elementary schools and the stress and instability of the lottery is avoidable by buying in a community with an acceptable school pyramid. The townhouse communities in Ward 3 are great for this, as are the close-in suburbs. The one thing I really regret is not understanding the intangible benefits of living in a kid-friendly community with a neighborhood school.

So know that buying in Ward 4 means your child will lose friends throughout elementary as others win the lottery or move, kids in the neighborhood will go to a dozen different schools, and lining up a middle and high school pathway may take some hard choices and a lot of stress.

It can work out, we’re an example of that, but if your budget gives you options that avoid the lottery, then why make things harder for yourself and your kids?[/quote]

This is funny because we turned down deal for a DCI feeder as we did not think that dcps and Jr could handle our academically advanced kids.

Back to the point of this thread- do you hear the stress in both my and PP’s voices? You don’t want this. And honestly it doesn’t look like the situation is getting better. [/quote]

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