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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Barnesville.  Main knock on it is the distance, which is (IMHO) a mistake because there's no traffic in that direction.  Not sure where you're coming from[b] but from Rockville it's about the same amount of driving time as St. Andrews,[/b] McLean etc, probably a bit less than Norwood.  Wish we'd figured this out a lot earlier.  [/quote]

pIt is 16 miles from Rockville to the Barnesville School. It is 5-7 miles to St. Andrews from Rockville deoneding on where you live.For norwood 9-10 miles. from Rockville.

Not sure how 16 equals 5-7. That is 32 miles of driving a day compared to 10-14. Add in a special event at night and that is a lot of driving every week.[/quote]

I'm not the previous poster and I'm not affiliated in any way with Barnesville, except that I know someone who drives there from Rockville (very northern end of Rockville). They love it, they said their commute is always the same (because it's against traffic), and it's about 20 minutes door to door.

So I do see how the driving time could be the same, even if the distance is shorter, because traffic closer in to the city is much heavier and more unpredictable. [/quote]

Hi, I'm the PP.  Yes, it's just as little time for us to drive to Barnesville as it would be to St. Andrews, and actually slightly less than it would have been to Norwood.

The distance is indeed greater to Barnesville and this tripped us up at first, we wrongly assumed it would take us longer to drive there.  On average it takes us about 25 minutes, but the standard deviation is no more than 2-3 minutes.  St. Andrews (the lower school) would also have averaged about 25 minutes but the traffic variability would have been greater so we would have had to allow more time, to budget for that variability.

Key is that driving to Barnesville puts us on I-270 against traffic most of the way, so we're going 60 mph.  Heading to the Potomac schools we'd be fighting rush hour traffic.  I-270 is an absolute nightmare in that direction at that time. We found back ways to the Potomac schools, but even roads such as Seven Locks and Wootton can get backed up in the mornings.

The mileage is greater to Barnesville for us but the time is not.  It takes less time for us than it would have taken to get to Norwood, Harbor, or St. Andrews lower school.  Probably would have to budget about the same for St. Andrews Middle School, Charles E. Smith, or McLean.

Admittedly we are on the north edge of Rockville, but that's how it works out for us.

I guess my bottom-line advice is go with the school you think best. If you live in Rockville (at least in the northern half of it) it would be a mistake to rule Barnesville out based on distance, as we've found it to be a complete non-factor.  I like the drive, actually, it's actually more pleasant than the rest of the driving I do all week, since I'm never stuck in traffic. [/quote]

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