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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A plug for Brookland - two good in boundary elementary schools (Burroughs and Bunker Hill) that people love. Lots of greater charter schools (Stokes, Mundo Verde, Yu Ying, Inspired). It’s peaceful but has some nightlife/restaurants, easy access to downtown on the metro, lots of single family homes in your budget (you’ll be happy for outdoor space when you have a kid, I promise), and a really strong community - especially for parents and kids.

Downside is that right now Brookland middle is absolutely not somewhere I would send my kids. But if you’re only now TTC, that’s not a problem you’ll need to think about for a decade or more, at which point a lot will have changed both in your lives and in the world. [/quote]

I heard the same when I moved to dc and I still find the high school and middle school wholly unacceptable for my kids. [/quote]

In a different neighborhood but yes, we heard this too a decade ago. Hoping other people come before you and gentrify your zoned public schools is not a plan. In our feeder pattern, some folks tried the middle with mixed results and now that momentum is lost. The neighboring feeder pattern has gentrified and the middle is considered acceptable now, but the high school still is not. [/quote]

That's why you perhaps table the long term planning until closer to middle school. We ended up in a DCI feeder and this is working out for now. This assumes that people nowadays do not move permanently into one house for 20 years, and that changing schools and feeders over the same 20 years is ok with a family (ie, they live in 2026 not 1950). Granted, some of the suburbs here are more like 1950 which is why we don't live there.[/quote]

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