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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I live near OHS. It is a very nice school. I would not pupil place into Marshall or SL from that location. Oakton is a good school and those schools are far. You are looking at a LOT of traffic/ commuting time for course work that is part of a program with problems -- and not the same as the overseas program. We had one neighbor who went to SL -- transferred out ASAP. Same Marshall. Marshall is great for some students, but it is not the perfect school that the supporters say it is.[/quote]

One thing that Oakton and Marshall have in common is that their boundaries pull from a lot of areas further west of the schools.  It can take a while to get to Oakton if you're zoned for OHS and live in Herndon/Oak Hill.  That's also the case if you are zoned for Marshall but live in Vienna out towards Reston.  We used to live in Vienna/22182.  The two closest high schools were Madison and Oakton, but we were zoned for Marshall.  It would definitely chew up a lot of time to pick up or drop off our oldest, if he needed to stay at school late and needed a ride.  Getting there from Oakton would take even longer.  We now live less than two miles from two high schools, and it's been more convenient.  Our younger kids were able to walk to school, or quickly go back and forth from the house to the school for different activities.

Maybe the OP didn't want to hear about travel times, but only about the differences between the two academic programs.  But I'd treat it the same way that I'd look at buying a house when considering a commute to a job.  If you are thinking about pupil-placing and will have to provide transportation, do a number of test runs at times when you'd need to drop off or pick up your child (and factor in whether this would be on top of commuting to work).  I don't know if getting to SL from Hunter Mill and Lawyers in Oakton is too bad, but I'm not sure there's any good way to get to Marshall from Oakton that doesn't involve going through Tysons. [/quote]

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