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But JO Wilson is a Hill school. Its IB goes to H street. I would agree that the high rises over by the New York metro aren't on the Hill, or even really Hill adjacent, but no one but you is concerned about that point. The OP wanted some info on Hill schools. We are trying to give her some.[/quote]

The NOMA booster is the one that turned this into a debate about NOMA as a neighborhood. [b]And anyway, is JO Wilson really a Hill neighborhood? What would the longtimers say about that? [/b][/quote]

I've owned a home in the historic district since 1999.  Do I count as a long timer? I consider everything between Florida Avenue NE and the highway SE to be Capitol Hill and from North Capitol to the Anacostia River. I realize that realtors have several different names for the sub neighborhoods (Hill East, Rosedale, NOMA, H Street/Atlas) and those distinctions are interesting for talking about different parts of the Hill, but it's pedantic to nitpick about subdivisions when people crisscross these neighborhoods all day for the purposes of shopping, recreation, commuting, libraries, restaurants, etc.). Any school in those boundaries is a Hill school because the lives of the kids and the families intersect at events and activities. I'm even willing to throw in Van Ness and the whole new Navy Yard area as essentially the same as the Hill. I now do all my grocery shopping at the Navy Yard Harris Teeter since it's the nicest grocery store "on the Hill," at least until the Whole Foods opens on H Street (which will still be "on the Hill"). I am not sure there is any point in arguing with you since you clearly think differently, but I wanted to represent the opinion of someone who has lived on the Hill for more than a few years.  [/quote]

Ditto, all around. Though as a resident of the Hill who lives just south of H, I'm not sure my opinion counts. :)[/quote]

+1. I think if it as Florida ave to the highway. I've lived here since early 2000. In my experience only the older residents and old school real estate agents try and claim the historic district distinction. The Hill would be a boring and less enjoyable place to live without the adjacent areas that everyone under 50 that I know thinks of as the Hill.[/quote]

[reposting to correct pagination issues]. As I wait for the steady drumbeat of these types of replies I can't help but feel sorry for the poster bolded above. Not because he/she has been passed by time and convention, but because their outdated definition of the Hill could only happen if they had not been exploring all the new and diverse offerings of what the rest of us think of as the Hill. And for that and for them I mourn. [/quote][/quote]

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