Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who said my son was there in 2003 -- Garrison is exactly the ES at the right time, it will be fantasitc if everyone in walking distance gets together. It is bound to happen, get on board. Then join with your Ross and fellow ES schools to demand excellence in your MS feeders. It will be great!!! do it!

hahaha not that I don't agree with the sentiment of this statement.... but you apparently haven't read the 15 pages of comments yelling at the poster who asked how gentrifiers can get together to improve a struggling school. Everyone told the poster to shut up and live with it or move to the suburbs, because heaven forbid you try and build momentum to make a school better.

We moved back to DC last year. We wanted in Ross so badly, but we agreed that we needed 2 bedrooms and at least 1400 square feet, and wanted to pay under $1.2m. We had our eyes on the market for about 6 months waiting to pounce, and only one townhouse came up in that time (we lost out to another buyer; it got bid up about $100k more than we wanted to spend, and needed new kitchens, floors, bath etc). There was a condo we seriously considered but it seemed very overpriced (and sat on the market for 2 months but refused to budge even $5000 when we asked, until they ultimately pulled the listing - which tells me we were right to not buy), and didn't have parking. Plus it needed $100k of renovations. That was all that came up in 6 months that remotely fit our parameters. I'm actually not sure who all these mysterious in-bound Ross kids are, because if you look at the boundary map on zillow, almost everything around there is associations, churches, foundations, corporate housing and other nonprofit commercial type stuff. There is very little housing stock in an already very small neighborhood.

Like Garrison.

For that money you can go 1-2 stops up redline and still have great schools but more space. Depends if you want to stay through elementary or not partly.

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Anonymous wrote:How easy/hard is it to find an apartment rental inbounds for Ross? Especially if you want to start the lease on August 1 to start the school year inbounds?

I live in bounds for Ross so am pretty familiar. First, there are almost no apts/condos over 2 bedrooms in Ross' district (which is very small). You could rent a single family home, which would be upwards of $5K/month I imagine, but it's not often that they go up for rent or for sale. Despite being massively overpriced, esp with 14th St going gangbusters with new fancy restaurants, etc, real estate is snapped up in a matter of hours sometimes. So if you do want to move into the area, expect to live in a tiny place unless you have massive amounts of $$! There are those of us who like tiny places, though, less to clean

^^15:25, why don't you check the internet, to see if you can find an apartment? you can find one, surely, it will just vary on size, price and amenities. have you been to the neighborhood?

How easy/hard is it to find an apartment rental inbounds for Ross? Especially if you want to start the lease on August 1 to start the school year inbounds?

I'm the PP who said my son was there in 2003 -- Garrison is exactly the ES at the right time, it will be fantasitc if everyone in walking distance gets together. It is bound to happen, get on board. Then join with your Ross and fellow ES schools to demand excellence in your MS feeders. It will be great!!! do it!

It is the smallest DCPS school in the system. It isn't frequently discussed on this forum because the chances of getting in, due to the tiny size and small boundary area, are impossible unless you live IB our have an older sibling already at the school. And even if you are IB or have an older sibling in the school, it doesn't guarantee you a spot in PreK. There have been years when siblings of older students at Ross didn't in get for PreK and had to wait until K, which is when you are guaranteed a spot. If you are basing your choice on location, consider Garrison as an alternative for the early years.

Anonymous wrote:Flies under the radar? Seriously? Everyone I know would kill to get into Ross, but they don't take any OOB students (and waitlist some inbounds for PK3/PK4).

Not correct to say NO OOB. I know a family who got in for PK4 last year OOB. It happens, just not often at all.

The last two PPs have pretty much summed it up.