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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]City of Falls Church too far?  Taxes are high, but city management of schools is far superior to that of county-managed schools.  Not much on the market, but perhaps you could snap something up in the spring.

It’s an IB, not AP school system.  [/quote]

We’re looking in the same price range/desired size as OP, open to FCC and Arlington, and based on what we’ve seen over the last year, OP is priced out of FCC. There just is so little on the market, and any SFH with that number of bedrooms is priced above $1.3 million, unless it needs a LOT of work or is very tiny, and that’s not even factoring in the higher taxes that would mean a higher monthly cost. OP’s better bet is Arlington, especially if public schools are in the plan. Alexandria just has a culture of private schools that Arlington does not and probably never will, since the only privates even located within Arlington are parochial, and not many at that. No private independent schools, and having to travel outside Arlington to attend them means fewer families are wiling to do that, especially when the public schools are good. And they are good. Even the higher poverty schools provide good outcomes for kids from MC homes. The kids who are being failed come to APS with many barriers to academic success, and like everywhere else throughout time, APS has not solved the issue. The main thing, as a PP pointed out, is that the “experience” won’t be the same in a high poverty neighborhood school. Fewer extracurriculars, fewer field trips, fewer “experiences,” because these are usually funded and organized by the PTA. But the education provided is the same. OP can probably find data on the PTA budgets and narrow their home search based on that info, if school “experience” matters to them.[/quote]

I’m curious why you think the classroom experience is uniform across the system. Presumably, you’ve had kids in both high poverty and low poverty 
elementary schools? Or just the latter?[/quote]

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