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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what a DCPS teacher friend told me when I was in a similar spot:

1) PK is done will throughout the district. 
2) Schools change very rapidly in DC. It's hard to plan ahead (especially for things like middle school) when your kid is just a twinkle in your eye.

So, she encouraged me to just buy in a neighborhood we liked and figure it out later. So that's what we did. We sent our kids to PK and K at our "mediocre" (but great for ECE!) IB school, then lotteried to a nearby DCPS for elementary school. It's worked out great, and there were definitely acceptable schools that were getable for K/1st in reasonable commute to our house (and I think that's true most places, MAYBE not east of the river). And we now have way more info (and, let's be honest, more money, home equity, and options) as we look towards middle school.

Bottom line: Pick a house you like in a neighborhood you like and figure out the schools later.

That being said - some schools I like are Ross, Garrison, Powell, John Lewis, Whittier, and Seaton. [/quote]

This is so true.

We did just that BUT we also looked for an area that had a lot of families. We figured they must know something. That is how we landed in Brookland. Turned out the IB was not ideal but we ended up in one of the many good charter schools in the area, and several years later moved to another neighborhood.

No need to plan too far ahead, these things do change. [/quote]

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