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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo is politically to the left across the board. You are correct that the closer-in suburbs of DC will probably be bluest. Takoma Park is known to be very progressive, crunchy type liberal. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac are the wealthiest areas of MoCo. This means that some families will be rich and conservative (some might send their children to private school, but some will end up in the local publics).

I live in Bethesda, and my neighbors are mostly very anti-MAGA, but there are some conservatives. And you will always find a MAGA kook at some point. My friend near Walter Johnson has such a neighbor, in a deep sea of blue - bad luck.

If you are looking at school quality, the best public schools are where the rich people are (with the exception of middle and high school selective magnets, which were deliberately placed in less wealthy neighborhoods, but I believe changes are afoot because MCPS is restructuring its magnet programs). Walt Whitman is considered the best high school, with all the schools that start with "W" in their name (called the W schools). BCC is an honorary member of that group, even though test scores are ever so slightly lower, because it's in downtown Bethesda and has the full IB program.

If you want diversity in your schools in terms of skin color and economic disparity, that's NOT where the rich people are. The W schools are very white, particularly Walt Whitman, and some like Winston Churchill have a strong contingent of east Asians. There is international diversity in all the neighborhoods close to DC, but in Bethesda it tends to be World Bank, diplomat, scientific research families, and in other areas, immigrants from a less stratospheric walk of life.

The most important criteria to think about, honestly, are commute to your work and price of real estate/rentals.

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In what way are "W" schools better than Blair, Wheaton, Northwood or Paint Branch?[/quote]

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