Anonymous
Post 02/19/2026 16:25     Subject: School Boundary Change-Woodward HS
I see that as a win. Property taxes staying constant, housing depreciates. It’s the way it should be, not appreciate forever
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2026 21:26     Subject: School Boundary Change-Woodward HS
Anonymous wrote:Two houses for sale in Old Farm, contingent and pending, 27 and 18 days on the market. Priced slightly lower than average about 10-15% less.


Can you please provide links to the two houses for sale, and the comps that were 10-15% higher?
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2026 18:29     Subject: School Boundary Change-Woodward HS
Anonymous wrote:Two houses for sale in Old Farm, contingent and pending, 27 and 18 days on the market. Priced slightly lower than average about 10-15% less.


Really hard to say definitively that this is because of school boundary changes without looking at other factors (condition of the houses?) and accounting for seasonal market shifts. Plus interest rates and broader economic trends. Worth watching but not sure this indicates a massive home value drop is in the works in that neighborhood.
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Post 02/18/2026 16:57     Subject: School Boundary Change-Woodward HS
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Anonymous wrote:How will the new school boundary change from Water Johnson HS to the new Woodward HS effect neighborhoods like Old Farm and Lux Manor? Will it change the property values or culture?


Woodward will be a vastly different school than WJ.

Downward pressure will be there for sure. No one will pay the same price for attending WJ and Woodward if other things are equal.


+1

WJ had 5-10% discount to Whitman despite being a very good school.

Woodward to WJ gap will be far beigger.


Yes, especially given that WJ will no longer be overcrowded, which is the main issue with it right now. It will be on par with Whitman and Churchill.


WJ was the most crowded place my kid ever was in (I'll add that he is not a concert goer). It is a great school! Removing the overcrowding will only improve the experience. Cannot wait for Woodward to open up. Crazy that it opening just to be a holding school for years. Only in MoCo.


What do you mean?


After years and years of overcrowding at WJ, like no one saw that coming, Woodward school "opened" but only as a holding school. Not as a school available to those who should be attending it, as a brand new school, in a more timely manner. Hope that helps.


And you think WJ kids should have been there before Northwood kids? You would be wrong. Northwood re-opened in 2002 with paint and a prayer and it was a disaster. Those kids, in that community, needed a new school before the overcrowded WJ kids. Yes, really. As a reminder, MCPS has to do what's best for all the kids, not just yours. And yes, my kids are at WJ and I know what the over-crowding brings.

Be careful what you wish for. As WJ shrinks, and before it

becomes overcrowded again through ongoing development, the wide-range of course selection will shrink



Yes.