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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]S. Arlington!

The house across the street from us is being listed this week and is great- (There are some cosmetic things, but nothing paint can't handle).  I think it's going to be listed right around 699K.

We are in Arlington Heights and love it here.  There are TONS of kids, great neighbors, you can walk to Columbia Pike and Clarendon, and the schools are also really good.  S. Arlington schools often get a bad rap, but it's all a bunch of baloney.  I am a "retired" teacher and send my children to a county-wide public elementary in S. Arlington and it's been wonderful so far.  You cannot go by the test scores.

The house isn't "live" on MLS yet, but once it is, I'll post a link.

My husband commutes into DC and it's super easy. We're also close to 66 and 395.  You cannot beat the location.  My children used to go to a DC private (for preschool) and it was a snap for us to get there.

Next week we are actually moving across Glebe Road to Alcova Heights, also a really nice neighborhood.  We aren't moving because we don't like it here, we're moving because a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy a really special house came up.  Even though it's just 4 blocks, we are going to miss our neighbors as I know we won't see them as much.  Now that the weather is nice, my children have been playing with neighbors across the street and it makes me sad that they won't be able to just hop on over there as easily.

Other neighborhoods I like in 22204 are Penrose and Douglas Park.  The Claremont neighborhood (22206, I think) is also popular.

Good luck to you!!

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Why are low test scores and high dropout rates a bunch of baloney?[/quote]

Test scores are just one little snapshot of a school.  The way they are reported is also misleading.  For example, Patrick Henry, our neighborhood school, failed to meet No Child Left Behind.  The truth of it wasn't that a lot of students failed the tests, it was two students who missed a couple of questions.  They had both just moved to the US right before school had started and barely knew English.  If the test had been given in their native languages, they would have passed.  None of that is taken into consideration. Everyone has to take the same test.

Schools in S. Arlington typically score lower because they have more students from foreign countries whose first language is not English.  Think for a second just how hard it would be to move to a new country as a third grader, have to learn a new language, and then get tested in that new language 9-10 months later.

Since you seem to be so test score driven- This is the email I received from APS just yesterday.

All Arlington High Schools Ranked in The Washington Post's List of Top U.S. High Schools
APS Ranks in the Nation's Top 1% of High Schools and the Top 50 High Schools in the Region
The Washington Post announced its annual Challenge Index rankings of the nation's top high schools on Sunday. The index ranked all four Arlington high schools in the top 1% among all 27,000 high schools in the nation, and all APS high schools are in the top 2% of The Post list which only accounts for 1,864 high schools or approximately 7% of all U.S. high schools. 
http://www.apsva.us//site/Default.aspx?PageID=17879
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