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[quote=Anonymous]I posted earlier, but just wanted to stress 2 points:

1) The school issue matters for house value; like it or not, there are enough people who will pay significantly more for certain school pyramids. You don't want to pay that premium only to lose it in just a few years. That to me is the biggest downside to Kensington (and yes, also to those Bethesda neighborhoods zoned for WJ.)

2) The MCPS curriculum is the same everywhere, but different school pyramids come with different advantages and disadvantages. We're in the BCC zone - that meant insanely big elementary and middle schools (pre-Silver Creek.) But now that I've got a kid in HS, I get it; the school has amazing resources, some of them a direct result of the high SES parent population. My kid isn't an overachiever, so I'm glad that at this point in his education he's in an environment with a lot of opportunities and high expectations.

By contrast I know people in other MCPS clusters with significantly lower SES: their kids have had great experiences with smaller schools and smaller class sizes. Their HS is ranked significantly lower and probably have fewer 'extras' as compared to BCC. Will their kids be worse off in life or in college admissions? I doubt it.[/quote]

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