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1. The only way to ensure your kid has a guaranteed elementary-middle-high school path to good schools is move to upper NW. You will not be able to buy a house or a condo there for the amount you want to spend.
2. There are areas (Brent and Maury on the Hill, Ross in Dupont, etc.) that have good elementary schools but no good middle/high schools. You cannot afford a house there either for your price.
3. You can lottery into a good school but it's far from guaranteed and if you are risk averse, not for you. 
4. Houses in suburbs that are close in, metro accessible and have good public schools, either in Montgomery County or Northern Virginia, are also outside your price range.

To sum up - either take the risk and play the lottery, be OK with sending your kid to a less than awesome IB school, or move to an outer suburb. Or you can rent, but rents in Upper NW/NoVa/MoCo aren't cheap and may or may not be within your budget. These are the sum of your choices. All the complaining will not make it any different.[/quote]

Agree with all of this 100%.
Will add that even good schools might not be in neighborhoods you find satisfactory if you are extremely concerned about neighborhood crime, or if you don't like litter, catcalling, sidewalk loitering, or houses with bars on their windows.  This is not to say that living in DC is some sort of war zone.  But things like package theft, car breakins/tire slashings, little kids who curse/throw stuff at passers-by happen in DC even in many neighborhoods where houses sell for over $750k and there's a nice new grocery store and people are excited about the elementary school.  If that is not tolerable to you, then you really need to either find the money to move to upper NW or move further out until you find a place you like and can afford. Howard County might be one place to look.
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Are there decent rentals in NW for $2300 - 2500/mo?  In unit washer/dryer?[/quote]

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