Anonymous
11/05/2025 17:54
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:
Looking at:
- Kensington
- Bethesda
- Chevy Chase
Thanks!
reconsider MCPS.
Anonymous
11/05/2025 14:37
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bradley Hills or Somerset
+1 to Bradley Hills
+1 Bradley Hills
Anonymous
11/05/2025 14:34
Subject: Re:Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:I would Rec looking past Elementary as well, Westbrook and Somerset are lovely if you like Westland and BCC. Woodacres or bannockburn elementary are lovely too if you like Pyle or Whitman
Westbrook has a great neighborhood feel and parent community, and they finally got rid of the incompetent and toxic principle.
Anonymous
11/04/2025 22:48
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s probably not a huge difference between Ashburton and Wyngate academically (Wyngate parent here with a kid that’s actually currently in a CES program). I have heard there are some Ashburton kids that are at Wyngate this year due to overcrowding there. What I do know is that the Wyngate community is fantastic. The ES and MS are within the actual neighborhood which contributes to walkers and families being outside more for those that can get to school this way, or kids in groups. The neighborhood itself is really warm, IMO, and there are so many block parties and just general camaraderie that happens. Even though we are not at the school anymore, we have stayed connected with families, which just creates a really nice vibe for our kid overall.
Also Wygate parent. My 4th grader has a kid from Ashburton.
All Ashburton students in grade 2-5 were offered automatic COSAs to Wyngate and Luxmanor this year due to overcrowding.
Why didn't they make this same offer to Farmland students?
Farmland doesn't have near the number of portables and temporary modular structures that Ashburton has. Didn't they have an actual renovation in 2011? Not just temp modulars tacked on..
Ashburton had students sitting on trash cans several years ago because it had run out of chairs due to overcrowding. Bethesda Magazine did an article on it. Sorry to hear it continues.
Weird that the CIP says Ashburton isn't overcapacity and Farmland is.
It's because the CIP is considering the temporary modular units at Ashburton as permanent additions to the school
Anonymous
11/04/2025 22:24
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Somerset is great neighborhood school
+1
Anonymous
11/04/2025 22:17
Subject: Re:Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would Rec looking past Elementary as well, Westbrook and Somerset are lovely if you like Westland and BCC. Woodacres or bannockburn elementary are lovely too if you like Pyle or Whitman
I second this.
BCC is a decent HS. It has many more low-income kids and more brown people than Whitman to be sure (which we saw as a plus to not live in a privileged kid bubble), and it's outcomes are still strong (as someone mentioned upthread, BCC had more NMSF this year than Whitman, despite being a much smaller high school).
Anonymous
11/04/2025 21:19
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s probably not a huge difference between Ashburton and Wyngate academically (Wyngate parent here with a kid that’s actually currently in a CES program). I have heard there are some Ashburton kids that are at Wyngate this year due to overcrowding there. What I do know is that the Wyngate community is fantastic. The ES and MS are within the actual neighborhood which contributes to walkers and families being outside more for those that can get to school this way, or kids in groups. The neighborhood itself is really warm, IMO, and there are so many block parties and just general camaraderie that happens. Even though we are not at the school anymore, we have stayed connected with families, which just creates a really nice vibe for our kid overall.
Also Wygate parent. My 4th grader has a kid from Ashburton.
All Ashburton students in grade 2-5 were offered automatic COSAs to Wyngate and Luxmanor this year due to overcrowding.
Why didn't they make this same offer to Farmland students?
Farmland doesn't have near the number of portables and temporary modular structures that Ashburton has. Didn't they have an actual renovation in 2011? Not just temp modulars tacked on..
Ashburton had students sitting on trash cans several years ago because it had run out of chairs due to overcrowding. Bethesda Magazine did an article on it. Sorry to hear it continues.
Weird that the CIP says Ashburton isn't overcapacity and Farmland is.
Anonymous
11/04/2025 19:59
Subject: Re:Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would Rec looking past Elementary as well, Westbrook and Somerset are lovely if you like Westland and BCC. Woodacres or bannockburn elementary are lovely too if you like Pyle or Whitman
I second this.
I love Bannockburn. Beautiful homes, cozier school
Anonymous
11/04/2025 19:53
Subject: Re:Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:I would Rec looking past Elementary as well, Westbrook and Somerset are lovely if you like Westland and BCC. Woodacres or bannockburn elementary are lovely too if you like Pyle or Whitman
I second this.
Anonymous
11/04/2025 19:52
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s probably not a huge difference between Ashburton and Wyngate academically (Wyngate parent here with a kid that’s actually currently in a CES program). I have heard there are some Ashburton kids that are at Wyngate this year due to overcrowding there. What I do know is that the Wyngate community is fantastic. The ES and MS are within the actual neighborhood which contributes to walkers and families being outside more for those that can get to school this way, or kids in groups. The neighborhood itself is really warm, IMO, and there are so many block parties and just general camaraderie that happens. Even though we are not at the school anymore, we have stayed connected with families, which just creates a really nice vibe for our kid overall.
Also Wygate parent. My 4th grader has a kid from Ashburton.
All Ashburton students in grade 2-5 were offered automatic COSAs to Wyngate and Luxmanor this year due to overcrowding.
Why didn't they make this same offer to Farmland students?
Farmland doesn't have near the number of portables and temporary modular structures that Ashburton has. Didn't they have an actual renovation in 2011? Not just temp modulars tacked on..
Ashburton had students sitting on trash cans several years ago because it had run out of chairs due to overcrowding. Bethesda Magazine did an article on it. Sorry to hear it continues.
Anonymous
11/04/2025 19:50
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s probably not a huge difference between Ashburton and Wyngate academically (Wyngate parent here with a kid that’s actually currently in a CES program). I have heard there are some Ashburton kids that are at Wyngate this year due to overcrowding there. What I do know is that the Wyngate community is fantastic. The ES and MS are within the actual neighborhood which contributes to walkers and families being outside more for those that can get to school this way, or kids in groups. The neighborhood itself is really warm, IMO, and there are so many block parties and just general camaraderie that happens. Even though we are not at the school anymore, we have stayed connected with families, which just creates a really nice vibe for our kid overall.
Also Wygate parent. My 4th grader has a kid from Ashburton.
All Ashburton students in grade 2-5 were offered automatic COSAs to Wyngate and Luxmanor this year due to overcrowding.
Why didn't they make this same offer to Farmland students?
Farmland doesn't have near the number of portables and temporary modular structures that Ashburton has. Didn't they have an actual renovation in 2011? Not just temp modulars tacked on..
Anonymous
11/04/2025 15:42
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Bradley Hills or Somerset
+1 to Bradley Hills
Anonymous
11/04/2025 15:27
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s probably not a huge difference between Ashburton and Wyngate academically (Wyngate parent here with a kid that’s actually currently in a CES program). I have heard there are some Ashburton kids that are at Wyngate this year due to overcrowding there. What I do know is that the Wyngate community is fantastic. The ES and MS are within the actual neighborhood which contributes to walkers and families being outside more for those that can get to school this way, or kids in groups. The neighborhood itself is really warm, IMO, and there are so many block parties and just general camaraderie that happens. Even though we are not at the school anymore, we have stayed connected with families, which just creates a really nice vibe for our kid overall.
Also Wygate parent. My 4th grader has a kid from Ashburton.
All Ashburton students in grade 2-5 were offered automatic COSAs to Wyngate and Luxmanor this year due to overcrowding.
Why didn't they make this same offer to Farmland students?
Anonymous
11/04/2025 14:00
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s probably not a huge difference between Ashburton and Wyngate academically (Wyngate parent here with a kid that’s actually currently in a CES program). I have heard there are some Ashburton kids that are at Wyngate this year due to overcrowding there. What I do know is that the Wyngate community is fantastic. The ES and MS are within the actual neighborhood which contributes to walkers and families being outside more for those that can get to school this way, or kids in groups. The neighborhood itself is really warm, IMO, and there are so many block parties and just general camaraderie that happens. Even though we are not at the school anymore, we have stayed connected with families, which just creates a really nice vibe for our kid overall.
Also Wygate parent. My 4th grader has a kid from Ashburton.
All Ashburton students in grade 2-5 were offered automatic COSAs to Wyngate and Luxmanor this year due to overcrowding.
Anonymous
11/04/2025 12:23
Subject: Top ES with neighborhood feel?
Bradley Hills or Somerset