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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great Schools ranks schools exclusively by test scores. There is an extraordinarily tight correlation between high test scores and high SES. So of course all the schools ranked highly by great schools will be in rich neighborhoods.

How much test scores tell you about the quality of a school is another question.

Not entirely true.

For DC, and any other jurisdictions that calculate PMF score, that's factored into the Great Schools rating along with the test score. MD and VA don't do PMF - so theirs are just PARCC (MD) and SOLs (VA).

Not true in any sense. There are many schools with high test scores and low neighborhood SES, and many schools with low test scores and high neighborhood SES.

When we were looking for schools, you can bet we used GS ranking as ONE OF our priorities.

What's an example of a non charter, must take all comers school in a poor neighborhood with high test scores? What's an example of a school in a rich neighborhood attended by students in that rich neighborhood with low scores?

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Anonymous wrote:Its funny how people on this site think $800k is affordable for a home....

It's not 800K. We paid $350K for one bedroom + den (practically a 2-bed) inbound for Horace Mann. It's a matter of choice. We traded space in favor of better education. Do your homework, there's plenty on non-fancy condos in the area, on Mass Ave, and one building on the south side of Cathedral Ave. and New Mexico. Rent rates in those buildings are not bad either.

Of course you share with AU students, which makes you wonder why investing in education is meant to be a good investment.

Plus, Mann gets you Hardy instead of Deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Like is about choice - there are homes in schools in DC that feed Deal / Hardy that are less than $1M.

3827 Albermale will go for $800K. It might not be on the most picturesque street - but in your budget.

OP is here on a blame-others rant. Let her release some steam.

When the aforementioned "steam" comes out of what should be her big girl panties, it's called a fart.

Is there some difference between a normal fart and a brain fart?

Can you do both at the same time?

If your head is up your behind, you probably could.

Middle class families who want good schools eventually move to Springfield or Centreville or Gaithersburg.

Anonymous wrote:We choose to continue renting in order to send our kids to great DC neighborhood schools. But I'm one who finds home ownership highly overrated. Been there, done that and am happier renting!

Me, too!

I'm with you prior poster

You can get a SFH in Silver Spring for 500k thats in a decent school district. Buy there or Rockville (thats a bit further out)

Virginia try Annandale

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Anonymous wrote:Its funny how people on this site think $800k is affordable for a home....

It's not 800K. We paid $350K for one bedroom + den (practically a 2-bed) inbound for Horace Mann. It's a matter of choice. We traded space in favor of better education. Do your homework, there's plenty on non-fancy condos in the area, on Mass Ave, and one building on the south side of Cathedral Ave. and New Mexico. Rent rates in those buildings are not bad either.

Of course you share with AU students, which makes you wonder why investing in education is meant to be a good investment.

+1.

Anonymous wrote:We choose to continue renting in order to send our kids to great DC neighborhood schools. But I'm one who finds home ownership highly overrated. Been there, done that and am happier renting!

+1

Anonymous wrote:Its funny how people on this site think $800k is affordable for a home....

It's not 800K. We paid $350K for one bedroom + den (practically a 2-bed) inbound for Horace Mann. It's a matter of choice. We traded space in favor of better education. Do your homework, there's plenty on non-fancy condos in the area, on Mass Ave, and one building on the south side of Cathedral Ave. and New Mexico. Rent rates in those buildings are not bad either.

Of course you share with AU students, which makes you wonder why investing in education is meant to be a good investment.

We went private with financial aid. It is more economical to us than overspending with high property taxes. I understand not everyone can do this.

Anonymous wrote:Its funny how people on this site think $800k is affordable for a home....

Even funnier how some believe they are entitled to live in a large house in one of the best zip codes of our nation's capital

Its funny how people on this site think $800k is affordable for a home....

Try to get into a charter or rent near the school you want your kids attend. You can still buy a house if you think DC real estate is that great, but you don't have to live in it. Rent it out.
You really do need a million to buy a house near one of the good schools. Some can afford it, but there are way more people who can't. My child is going to the school of our choice because we don't mind living in the condo through elementary school years.
I was asked a lot how I can afford to live near good school, but condos are not that expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at Shepard Park - or is it not hip enough?

Shepherd Park is still $800-$1M for livable and get maybe one new listing a month. OP's issue is more with real estate values than schools. I suggest she rent if she wants to stay in DC. Nobody have a right to own.

Yep.

Rent an affordable apartment (or house, if she can) in the school zone of choice.

Easy peazy.

OK so where do we start with this one?

Once upon a time, planters in the American colonies faced a shortage of labor...

or maybe just that DC has huge educational and outcome disparities among its communities and that they have historically mixed very little, and schools where those with few prospects live are considered bad, and sometimes are.