Anonymous wrote:The overwhelming people in NW do not buy for the schools. I do not think this will affect the prices at all.

This is not true. I put every dime I had into buying in NW for the schools and so did many, many of my neighbors. Also, if you look at the Post graphic and click on the JKLMM schools, you will see high in-boundary attendance.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/proposed-elementary-school-zones/

- Janney - Very high in-boundary participation rate.
- Key - 93% in-boundary participation rate
- Lafayette is overcrowded with an in-boundary participation rate of 93%.
- Mann - 92% in-boundary participation rate
- Murch is overcrowded with a 91% in-boundary participation rate.

Anonymous wrote:As I understand it, families currently guaranteed Janney would be guaranteed one of Janney and 2 other schools, probably a subset of Mann, Murch, Hearst, Eaton, Lafayette. Those are still all strong schools. I don't think prices will be hugely impacted by elementary choice. If the plan without proximity preference for MS and HS passes, I do think that will have an impact.

all of the options have some sort of proximity preference or feeder system for MS.

Well Janney is packed with in boundary kids so someone must be buying there for the schools. And if I was going to do private I'd stay in Logan Circle and enjoy walking to work and Le Diplomate.

Anonymous wrote:The overwhelming people in NW do not buy for the schools. I do not think this will affect the prices at all.

+1. If you look at the numbers, most white children in DC go private. We live in AU Park and never considered Janney.

My interest in NW would go up because that's the area of town with the private schools. We don't have many EOTP.

I can only speak for myself, but my interest in Upper NW would go down with any of the redistricting options. As someone who was planning to buy in either Janney or Murch districts, I will think twice if the current plans move forward. I forget which one of the plans would assign people to one of a limited set of schools, but I think that would put a damper on the neighborhood cohesiveness that makes ward 3 so attractive. Also it would mean that we couldn't buy someplace walking distance to a school and know that our kids would go to that school. We only have one car so we need a school to be either easily accessible via public transport or walkable. and the options that would mean that we wouldn't definitely get into Deal are also strikes against the neighborhood. There were a bunch of reasons why my family was waiting to move WOTP but wanting to see how this boundary stuff plays out was definitely a factor. As it is, if any of these proposals go forward we may just play the charter lottery for a few more years and worst case move to a walkable neighborhood in the burbs where we'd know that we'd get into good neighborhood schools.

The overwhelming people in NW do not buy for the schools. I do not think this will affect the prices at all.

So yes - it could impact prices as people go to MoCo and embrace school certainty.

People in NW certainly buy to send their children to Janney, Deal and Wilson.

Nope. Most in NW upper brackets send their kids to private.

Not likely. People don't buy in DC for the public schools.

No.

As I understand it, families currently guaranteed Janney would be guaranteed one of Janney and 2 other schools, probably a subset of Mann, Murch, Hearst, Eaton, Lafayette. Those are still all strong schools. I don't think prices will be hugely impacted by elementary choice. If the plan without proximity preference for MS and HS passes, I do think that will have an impact.

No.

If it is no longer guaranteed that someone in American Univ Park can send their kids to Janney E.S., do you think that this will moderate the high real estate prices there?