What are the highly regarded charter high schools?

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason to worry about a feeder path relates to real estate purchases. Whether you use it or not, having good schools from elementary through high school will increase your property values.

I live in Columbia Heights and could probably sell my 4 bedroom rowhouse for $1M. It's zoned for Cardozo.

No doubt you could. Doesn't negate the fact that strong schools could add 10-15% to that amount.

Similar at Logan but since we've bought, prices have gone through the roof and the schools still suck. The school premium does not mean much when you live downtown.

We are at a DCI feeder but will switch to private by middle school. Will be hard bc DS has been going to the feeder since preK4 but DCI is too far a commute and we REALLY want to move out of DC.

We also live downtown, we have no middle school option (screw you DC government) thankfully our HRCS goes all the way through as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm. So none of the others on that list have a HS option, so we'd have to re-apply to another school through the lottery, go to our inbound, or go private when the time comes. That's concerning.

When does your child turn 3?

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Anonymous wrote:Because you have a lot of time and much will change by the time they are ready for HS.

- not the one who asked you.

You're probably right, but when making the decision between public and private I'd like to know what the options and prospects are as it stands today, not what may or may not be down the road.

Well, okay, but the public school landscape is changing year to year, so it's hard to predict what things are going to look like in 10 years. Plus you don't know really what kind of kid your two-year-old is going to turn out to be, so you don't know what he or she needs yet, or what your tolerance for uncertainty is (although it sounds like it's low!)

If you want a sure thing through high school based on today's metrics, you want to buy a house in a > Deal > Wilson feeder or a > Hardy > Wilson feeder. Otherwise it's the luck of the lottery, at least once and maybe more times if you want to lottery for middle and high school.

Even that's not a sure thing. I bought a house in-bounds for Wilson, and then the boundaries changed.

Ummm, in SW? That couldn't have been a surprise.

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Anonymous wrote:Because you have a lot of time and much will change by the time they are ready for HS.

- not the one who asked you.

You're probably right, but when making the decision between public and private I'd like to know what the options and prospects are as it stands today, not what may or may not be down the road.

Well, okay, but the public school landscape is changing year to year, so it's hard to predict what things are going to look like in 10 years. Plus you don't know really what kind of kid your two-year-old is going to turn out to be, so you don't know what he or she needs yet, or what your tolerance for uncertainty is (although it sounds like it's low!)

If you want a sure thing through high school based on today's metrics, you want to buy a house in a > Deal > Wilson feeder or a > Hardy > Wilson feeder. Otherwise it's the luck of the lottery, at least once and maybe more times if you want to lottery for middle and high school.

Even that's not a sure thing. I bought a house in-bounds for Wilson, and then the boundaries changed.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason to worry about a feeder path relates to real estate purchases. Whether you use it or not, having good schools from elementary through high school will increase your property values.

I live in Columbia Heights and could probably sell my 4 bedroom rowhouse for $1M. It's zoned for Cardozo.

No doubt you could. Doesn't negate the fact that strong schools could add 10-15% to that amount.

Similar at Logan but since we've bought, prices have gone through the roof and the schools still suck. The school premium does not mean much when you live downtown.

We are at a DCI feeder but will switch to private by middle school. Will be hard bc DS has been going to the feeder since preK4 but DCI is too far a commute and we REALLY want to move out of DC.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason to worry about a feeder path relates to real estate purchases. Whether you use it or not, having good schools from elementary through high school will increase your property values.

I live in Columbia Heights and could probably sell my 4 bedroom rowhouse for $1M. It's zoned for Cardozo.

No doubt you could. Doesn't negate the fact that strong schools could add 10-15% to that amount.

I said probably, based on what I was told by a real estate agent friend, when I told her we were thinking of moving.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason to worry about a feeder path relates to real estate purchases. Whether you use it or not, having good schools from elementary through high school will increase your property values.

I live in Columbia Heights and could probably sell my 4 bedroom rowhouse for $1M. It's zoned for Cardozo.

No doubt you could. Doesn't negate the fact that strong schools could add 10-15% to that amount.

Anonymous wrote:The only reason to worry about a feeder path relates to real estate purchases. Whether you use it or not, having good schools from elementary through high school will increase your property values.

I live in Columbia Heights and could probably sell my 4 bedroom rowhouse for $1M. It's zoned for Cardozo.

The only reason to worry about a feeder path relates to real estate purchases. Whether you use it or not, having good schools from elementary through high school will increase your property values.

+1. Also just because your charter at have an option for high school, you don't even know what type of student your child is going to be and whether that school, HRCS or not, will meet your students needs. We have friends that are in HRCS that have middle and high school paths but they have no intention on using the path and plan to leave after 4th or 5th.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you have a lot of time and much will change by the time they are ready for HS.

- not the one who asked you.

You're probably right, but when making the decision between public and private I'd like to know what the options and prospects are as it stands today, not what may or may not be down the road.

When I joined one of the schools mentioned, they didn't even have a middle school. Now they do.

Go to the school expo and get the info it will have more details about feeders etc. Just blasting to DCUM (especially since some parents are sick of answering the same questions year after year), might be a bit more helpful.

Or, maybe even...google?

I've already googled -- which is how I found out there are no HS components to those schools. If someone is sick of answering a question then they don't have to respond. DCUM is definitely part of my research, not all of it. Thanks anyway.

NP on this thread.

1. DCI will likely be an option for you by the time your child reaches high school age.
2. Creative Minds may also be an option, having just received a charter expansion to start a middle school.
3. Realistically, consider your child's needs for elementary school. Those are much more important than an eventual path to high school. If it turns out that you need to move in order to find a good high school for your child, that is 10 years down the road. Five year plans are much wiser.

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Anonymous wrote:Because you have a lot of time and much will change by the time they are ready for HS.

- not the one who asked you.

You're probably right, but when making the decision between public and private I'd like to know what the options and prospects are as it stands today, not what may or may not be down the road.

Well, okay, but the public school landscape is changing year to year, so it's hard to predict what things are going to look like in 10 years. Plus you don't know really what kind of kid your two-year-old is going to turn out to be, so you don't know what he or she needs yet, or what your tolerance for uncertainty is (although it sounds like it's low!)

If you want a sure thing through high school based on today's metrics, you want to buy a house in a > Deal > Wilson feeder or a > Hardy > Wilson feeder. Otherwise it's the luck of the lottery, at least once and maybe more times if you want to lottery for middle and high school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you have a lot of time and much will change by the time they are ready for HS.

- not the one who asked you.

You're probably right, but when making the decision between public and private I'd like to know what the options and prospects are as it stands today, not what may or may not be down the road.

When I joined one of the schools mentioned, they didn't even have a middle school. Now they do.

Go to the school expo and get the info it will have more details about feeders etc. Just blasting to DCUM (especially since some parents are sick of answering the same questions year after year), might be a bit more helpful.

Or, maybe even...google?

I've already googled -- which is how I found out there are no HS components to those schools. If someone is sick of answering a question then they don't have to respond. DCUM is definitely part of my research, not all of it. Thanks anyway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you have a lot of time and much will change by the time they are ready for HS.

- not the one who asked you.

You're probably right, but when making the decision between public and private I'd like to know what the options and prospects are as it stands today, not what may or may not be down the road.

When I joined one of the schools mentioned, they didn't even have a middle school. Now they do.

Go to the school expo and get the info it will have more details about feeders etc. Just blasting to DCUM (especially since some parents are sick of answering the same questions year after year), might be a bit more helpful.

Or, maybe even...google?