Anonymous
11/14/2025 12:52
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ross.
No question.
Yes for elementary school for sure.
Iffy for middle school, and then absolutely not for high school (there is not a single Ross kid who ends up at Cardozo High School).
Go to Basis for 5th or move to the burbs.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 11:46
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:We're a family looking to move to DC with this same question. Our DCs are in preschool now.
I'm following this forum closely -- please keep chiming in!
Lots of comments so far, but I think a big first question is what part of town are you looking in? We live in upper NW so I can only comment about that but there is great community feel at our school (Key). Almost everyone is in-bounds, lots of walkers, and it's a sweet tucked away school. I think friends at Lafayette, Janney, Mann, Stoddert, Murch, etc. in general are very happy with the community.
Of course academics at all of these schools start to get a bit iffy as they get older (especially starting in 4th grade), but in general we have been very happy at Key.
Anonymous
11/10/2025 13:12
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
We're a family looking to move to DC with this same question. Our DCs are in preschool now.
I'm following this forum closely -- please keep chiming in!
I'm following this forum closely -- please keep chiming in!
Anonymous
10/25/2025 10:17
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.
All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.
Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?
It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?
We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.
Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.
Where do your kids go to school?
One of the neighborhood schools. Title 1
Garrison?
Shhhh
They aren’t telling. It’s a secret.
Anonymous
10/25/2025 10:08
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Murch
My children all went to Murch, Deal, Wilson/Jackson-Reed. They all got themselves to school via foot/bike and appreciated the independence that gave them early in their lives. Murch is a lovely, diverse (racial, economic, ethnic) school with a committed, hard-working, and experienced staff. Deal is my least favorite of the three, but that might just be that middle school is hard on kids, families, and teachers. J-R has great teachers and countless opportunities for extracurriculars.
My guess is that you get similar walkability and access to all three schools with certain houses in Janney, Hearst, and Lafayette too.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 09:28
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Ross.
No question.
Yes for elementary school for sure.
Iffy for middle school, and then absolutely not for high school (there is not a single Ross kid who ends up at Cardozo High School).
Anonymous
10/23/2025 07:58
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Ross.
No question.
No question.
Anonymous
10/22/2025 12:53
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
The easiest way to find a school with a neighborhood feel is to find one with a high inbound percentage. As a tiebreaker, look for capture rate: the percentage of kids in the neighborhood that go to the neighborhood school. You will primarily see this in upper NW and eotr.
Anonymous
10/22/2025 09:23
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.
All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.
Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?
It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?
We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.
Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.
Where do your kids go to school?
One of the neighborhood schools. Title 1
Garrison?
Anonymous
10/21/2025 18:40
Subject: Re:Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Definitely Mann (Horace Mann elementary school) its so so great!! All three of my kids went there and loved it as well as learning a tremendous amount. Most kids live right next to Horace Mann or really close by so it definitely feels like a community.
Anonymous
10/06/2025 16:35
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.
All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.
Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?
It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?
We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.
Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.
Where do your kids go to school?
One of the neighborhood schools. Title 1
A thread about "top public elementary with a neighborhood feel" and but you won't even name the school. Why are you even in this thread?
Yea, that never happens here. Uh huh.
Any of of the schools in the neighborhood is tops.
Anonymous
10/06/2025 16:29
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.
All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.
Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?
It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?
We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.
Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.
Where do your kids go to school?
One of the neighborhood schools. Title 1
A thread about "top public elementary with a neighborhood feel" and but you won't even name the school. Why are you even in this thread?
Amazing that you deemed helpful replies "too white," but won't even recommend the school you landed on in your far superior neighborhood.
Anonymous
10/06/2025 16:22
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.
All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.
Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?
It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?
We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.
Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.
Where do your kids go to school?
One of the neighborhood schools. Title 1
A thread about "top public elementary with a neighborhood feel" and but you won't even name the school. Why are you even in this thread?
Anonymous
10/06/2025 16:16
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.
All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.
Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?
It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?
We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.
Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.
Where do your kids go to school?
One of the neighborhood schools. Title 1
Anonymous
10/03/2025 14:27
Subject: Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.
All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.
Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?
It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?
We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.
Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.
Where do your kids go to school?