Sorry I realized I posted in the wrong forum.

How and when did you start looking at HS? Our budget would be 20k or less. This is my DC's first year of middle so we have time. When we decided on parochial, we had made the decision two years prior. I'm a planner and hate making decisions on the fly. Are there types of schools we could eliminate/ look at now? With a DD she is probably in the top 50 to 25% of her class. She is definitely not the top or bottom. She is close to straight A's. We live in Rockville but my DH works in Frederick. TIA.