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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just wondering how that worked out? We are not excited for our in-bound (Wheatley) and we know our lottery options, but the odds of getting in anywhere OOB decrease each year. So what happens if you "lose"? Its really late in the year to move if you own a house.[/quote]
They ended up in Montgomery County schools - we "lost" and private wasn't an option. Never thought we'd move out of our beloved DC neighborhood, but here we are - actually love the new neighborhood, the change, and the kids are doing great - we really worried about how prepared they'd be coming from their charter school, but they are on pace with other kids and to our relief, have made new friends. Other bonus is that those kids live in the neighborhood, many are at their ES/MS bus stops, and our kids can walk and bike to their friends' homes unlike the charter experience, when their friends were from all over the city and no one was walkable.[/quote]

Above is the answer and not all these poorly performing schools other posters are trying to convince you to try.  Then what about high school?

We were lucky in the lottery but if we were not, moving was going to be the plan. [/quote]

MoCo was our plan for a while but now there's all this stuff with them changing the high school magnet programs and people seem in an uproar about it. It's confusing to me as a DC resident. Someone recently told me there is no such thing as a boundary school in MoCo? I don't think that's true but digging into it, it's sort of true? Anyway, we are looking at DC again because housing prices have gone up in MoCo anyway, making it less like a clear affordability win than we originally thought, and the school situation seems in flux.

We know others in the same boat, who were ready to just move up to Tacoma Park or Bethesda and call it done and now aren't so sure that makes sense.[/quote]

I don't get the "boundary" point? MCPS has rigid boundaries/feeder patterns. There's no lottery or "proximity preference" like DC. Some kids do magnet and therefore go "out of boundary," but not in the vast majority of cases. [/quote]

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