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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably start with high school and work backward. Many people think Washington-Libery and Yorktown are equally good for HS. Some think Yorktown is better, which is code for wealthier and/or less diverse.  
Middle school- people like Dorthy Hamm, then Williamsburg. 
Elementary- people like ATS, if you get a spot in the lottery. Distant second is Jamestown and Taylor. I don't know why people don't mention Glebe with Jamestown and Taylor. They all seem interchangeable to me.

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For the OP, the above is good advice. We also did the move from DC to Arlington solely for schools (Fairfax was too far for me to consider). We moved into Glebe. Glebe is tricky because it splits down the middle for middle school (to Swanson and Dorothy Hamm) and then those middle schools split again between Yorktown and W&L. If I could do it again, I'd think more about Taylor. However, Glebe's neighborhoods allowed us to walk easily to the metro so that was nice (we both worked in the city until covid). I'd also put Science Focus (not really science focused) on the list. No one we know has been happy at Discovery, unfortunate because when you see the building coming from DC, it's amazing.

I'd also think about if you want to stay in DC and try private school. If your child is going into middle or high school, I'd lean towards staying in DC, keeping the equity in your home, and doing one of the privates. We're in the process now of transitioning from Swanson to private school, but our older child has done great moving into high school.

Middle school issues aside, APS is so much better run than DCPS. A lot more transparency. Safer (no lead issues, no asbestos issues, schools have heating and cooling, some mice but no daytime rat infestations...). Less emphasis on testing.

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you haven't been here very long have you? We've had lead in the water pipes, mold galore, not all schools have working heating and cooling. And a lot of mice. I will give you I have not seen a rat.

Enjoy your nice new building, that's not what everyone else has. [/quote]

Yeah...sure...everyone knows Swanson is brand spanking new, huh? We've been here since 2016 and unless you've lived through carting pallets of water to your kid's school so that students and teachers can have water or months upon months of 90 degrees plus classrooms where it's so humid it rains or an entire room that cannot be accessed at all because sewage has been cascading down the walls from above for years, all while the principal is fired every 18 months and your kid's friends change schools every 90 days and there are kids in elementary school who are visibly in crisis daily and your kid knows how to beat a rat with a broom and you just saw a teacher throw a kid across the room and a swarmy dude in a bowtie from DCPS tells you that actually it's all fine, it's not the same. It's 2023 and the kids in my child's elementary school in DCPS STILL don't have running water in the sinks. There's absolutely no school in APS like that. APS needs to do a lot of work on itself, and I know there's beginning to be a vocal group of teachers looking across the river and thinking the streets are greener, but don't kid yourself. We all have it really, really good in Arlington. [/quote]

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