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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would absolutely second the recommendation to look in MoCo as well. At your budget, if you want a SFH and diversity, Blair, Northwood, and Einstein clusters are really good bets.

For elementary schools, people speak highly of Oakland Terrace, Flora Singer, Takoma Park ES, East Silver Spring ES, Sligo Creek ES, Woodlin ES, and Highland View (this is not an exhaustive list, just the schools in OP's price range I've heard good things about).

For middle schools, Takoma Park MS just got a big addition and houses the STEM magnet for that part of the county. Silver Spring International MS is about to get a renovation and has the middle years IB program. Both schools are extremely diverse and have active affinity clubs.

Commute to DC is easy on the Red Line, and I think you'd find a lot of families like yours in any of the neighborhoods mentioned. As PPs said, Silver Spring is extremely diverse and has some of the best outcomes for Black boys in the country.

https://wamu.org/story/18/03/20/forget-wealth-and-neighborhood-the-racial-income-gap-persists/[/quote]

+1.  I earlier recommended Silver Spring, although I live in DC.  Many SS neighborhoods seem to be good bets for middle class/professional black families:

"Hendren said the study did identify a few neighborhoods where black and white children often reach parity as adults. [b]He highlighted some suburbs of Washington, D.C., including Silver Spring, Md., as having relatively low degrees of racial bias among white people — one significant predictor of whether or not black boys will match white boys in future earnings. Another factor present in the neighborhoods was high percentages of present black fathers, [/b]compared to the country as a whole."[/quote]

This is really great news to read about SS, and accurate from my experience. I really don't think anywhere else in the region provides the comfort level as far as diversity is concerned.[/quote]

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