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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP. Thanks for taking the time to comment. If you have any more thoughts please don’t hold back - am not a troll. Usually make sound decisions but it’s been a crazy few months with family passing, pressing/ongoing older child health situation, move etc so a bit frazzled and out of my element wrt this situation.

Most people here have had time and lots of input from family/friends to make such a big decision. I feel that if had time to research here more, maybe the answer would come to me but that’s also crazy I know.

Also first time DH and I are not in agreement about something imp. DH’s short list is Langley/Mclean/Oakton. 
I don’t have a shortlist yet but don’t feel that’s quite right for us (preppy, intense, drugs). Maybe leaning towards Chantilly but don’t know if West Springfield or Lake Braddock are better. Also, are the number of houses being listed typical for the area in summer? I expected more.

Appreciate the clarification that there is no possibility of transferring to a better school other than with a move. That’s not going to happen in a week and a half. So we will need to decide asap what to do for the immediate future.

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What is your housing budget? Langley/Mclean/Oakton are great choices if you can afford to live in those areas.  I honestly think you’re overthinking this.

I get it, dh and I had a hard time agreeing when we moved to this area.  Our main issue was on the home. We were fortunate to have an amazing realtor who understood both our perspectives and found the right solution.  On schools, we ended up going the Catholic school route, which I originally was not interested in but changed my mind before we moved here.

Assuming you have the budget for it, those schools are great. Lake Braddock/ Robinson/ WS will be more middle class and are fine choices as well, but if you can afford a $2m house, you’ll be with your people at the other ones.  [/quote]

They’re all good schools but Fairfax Station and Clifton have some $2m homes too. Not all of the kids at Lake Braddock or Robinson live in them but it’s not as if none of the kids do. But if you’re someone who needs to be with “your people” like PP, I guess you wouldn’t want to interact with the regular middle class people at those schools. [/quote]

This data is a little old, but I heard Sangster is one of the wealthiest elementary schools in FCPS
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