Anonymous
10/13/2016 16:14
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
There are plenty of Rockville neighborhoods outside to twin brook that are less than $750k:
Fallsmead
Fallswood
Rockshire
Horizon Hill
Potomac Woods
College Gardens
Orchard Ridge
Stratton
Falls Ridge
You can not find a decent single family home for a family of 5 for less than $750, especially going to Wootton. Maybe Richard Montgomery but that high school is not that good. The IB is good but the rest is, um no.
Why is the non RBIM HS not good?
The same reasons OP is trying to find a better school.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 16:12
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
There are plenty of Rockville neighborhoods outside to twin brook that are less than $750k:
Fallsmead
Fallswood
Rockshire
Horizon Hill
Potomac Woods
College Gardens
Orchard Ridge
Stratton
Falls Ridge
You can not find a decent single family home for a family of 5 for less than $750, especially going to Wootton. Maybe Richard Montgomery but that high school is not that good. The IB is good but the rest is, um no.
Why is the non RBIM HS not good?
PP probably thinks it's not good because the school is diverse.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 16:07
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
There are plenty of Rockville neighborhoods outside to twin brook that are less than $750k:
Fallsmead
Fallswood
Rockshire
Horizon Hill
Potomac Woods
College Gardens
Orchard Ridge
Stratton
Falls Ridge
You can not find a decent single family home for a family of 5 for less than $750, especially going to Wootton. Maybe Richard Montgomery but that high school is not that good. The IB is good but the rest is, um no.
Why is the non RBIM HS not good?
Anonymous
10/13/2016 15:38
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
There are plenty of Rockville neighborhoods outside to twin brook that are less than $750k:
Fallsmead
Fallswood
Rockshire
Horizon Hill
Potomac Woods
College Gardens
Orchard Ridge
Stratton
Falls Ridge
You can not find a decent single family home for a family of 5 for less than $750, especially going to Wootton. Maybe Richard Montgomery but that high school is not that good. The IB is good but the rest is, um no.
That's total garbage. Outside the IB, RM is actually quite good. Yes, there is a population of about 400 highly achieving Magnet IB students. There is also a similarly-sized population of lower performing students. The remaining 1400 students are well capable, achieving students who work very hard and come from middle to upper class families. There are numerous opportunities to achieve and learn. No, it is not the pressure cooker that Wootton is; it does offer higher diversity and a realistic outlook on society. I would never want my kids to go to Wootton. Performance may be high on paper, but the environment is not a friendly one. If you are worried about SES, RM has high diversity. On the high end, Rose Hill, Horizon Hill, and Falls Grove have houses $700k to $1.1m. On the middle side, College Gardens, Potomac Woods, etc., have houses $500k to $700k. On the lower side, Twinbrook and various other areas have houses under $400k. It's well diverse and a great school. Julius West even tests well with the same population minus the IB Magnet. You just have some bias against RM.
+1
Anonymous
10/13/2016 15:37
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
There are plenty of Rockville neighborhoods outside to twin brook that are less than $750k:
Fallsmead
Fallswood
Rockshire
Horizon Hill
Potomac Woods
College Gardens
Orchard Ridge
Stratton
Falls Ridge
You can not find a decent single family home for a family of 5 for less than $750, especially going to Wootton. Maybe Richard Montgomery but that high school is not that good. The IB is good but the rest is, um no.
That's total garbage. Outside the IB, RM is actually quite good. Yes, there is a population of about 400 highly achieving Magnet IB students. There is also a similarly-sized population of lower performing students. The remaining 1400 students are well capable, achieving students who work very hard and come from middle to upper class families. There are numerous opportunities to achieve and learn. No, it is not the pressure cooker that Wootton is; it does offer higher diversity and a realistic outlook on society. I would never want my kids to go to Wootton. Performance may be high on paper, but the environment is not a friendly one. If you are worried about SES, RM has high diversity. On the high end, Rose Hill, Horizon Hill, and Falls Grove have houses $700k to $1.1m. On the middle side, College Gardens, Potomac Woods, etc., have houses $500k to $700k. On the lower side, Twinbrook and various other areas have houses under $400k. It's well diverse and a great school. Julius West even tests well with the same population minus the IB Magnet. You just have some bias against RM.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 15:26
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
There are plenty of Rockville neighborhoods outside to twin brook that are less than $750k:
Fallsmead
Fallswood
Rockshire
Horizon Hill
Potomac Woods
College Gardens
Orchard Ridge
Stratton
Falls Ridge
You can not find a decent single family home for a family of 5 for less than $750, especially going to Wootton. Maybe Richard Montgomery but that high school is not that good. The IB is good but the rest is, um no.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 14:46
Subject: Re:Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NW High School/Matsunaga, McNair, Great Seneca, or Diamond ES
Mature neighborhoods with most of the houses 15-20 yo. A 2001 SFH in the Matsunaga neighborhoods go for about $600-650k.
I liked these areas before too.
Location was a big issue for us though and it didn't really work for us.
Although we didn't look into Great Seneca Creek. I think it's a newer school but for some reason I got the impression it wasn't that great. It looks like it is a Focus school:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02340.pdf
Looked into the area that feeds into McNair briefly. I heard from someone that the area is kind of crowded but don't know how well they really know the area. There does seem to be a lot of townhomes in that area. Looking on the map, I think one of the reasons why the homes there might be on the cheaper side is because it looks like the train tracks run right behind the neighborhood. (didn't confirm this or look into it further) At the time we looked, the homes in that area were fixer uppers or sounded like they had some issues. So the idea that I have for the pricing of homes in that area might not be accurate and skewed by those homes.
Yeah, I hesitated to include GSC on the list, but it seems to be better than a lot of what you would find in Germantown, Gaithersburg, and Rockville. I know a couple of families who attend and they seem pretty happy - same goes for McNair, though I am not as familiar with the neighborhoods.
We have been pretty happy with Matsunaga, and the surrounding neighborhoods are solid. There is not much room for further housing construction in the region, so student populations should have peaked by now. Also, there are published plans to build a new ES that in theory will take some of the weight off McNair and Matsunaga. I am hoping the eventual opening of the new 270 exit at Watkins Mill will alleviate some of the traffic...
http://www.germantownpulse.net/single-post/2016/07/18/Gov-Hogan-Announces-1296-million-for-Watkins-Mill-Interchange
Anonymous
10/13/2016 14:33
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
There are plenty of Rockville neighborhoods outside to twin brook that are less than $750k:
Fallsmead
Fallswood
Rockshire
Horizon Hill
Potomac Woods
College Gardens
Orchard Ridge
Stratton
Falls Ridge
Anonymous
10/13/2016 12:58
Subject: Re:Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:NW High School/Matsunaga, McNair, Great Seneca, or Diamond ES
Mature neighborhoods with most of the houses 15-20 yo. A 2001 SFH in the Matsunaga neighborhoods go for about $600-650k.
I liked these areas before too.
Location was a big issue for us though and it didn't really work for us.
Although we didn't look into Great Seneca Creek. I think it's a newer school but for some reason I got the impression it wasn't that great. It looks like it is a Focus school:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02340.pdf
Looked into the area that feeds into McNair briefly. I heard from someone that the area is kind of crowded but don't know how well they really know the area. There does seem to be a lot of townhomes in that area. Looking on the map, I think one of the reasons why the homes there might be on the cheaper side is because it looks like the train tracks run right behind the neighborhood. (didn't confirm this or look into it further) At the time we looked, the homes in that area were fixer uppers or sounded like they had some issues. So the idea that I have for the pricing of homes in that area might not be accurate and skewed by those homes.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 12:54
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Ironically Rockville has Twinbrook which is just yuck. It is probably the school OP is looking to get away from.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 12:42
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Rockville.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 12:29
Subject: Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:I work off the red line, husband in MoCo and we could put $100k down and don't want to spend more than $4k a month
At $4k a month, you could EASILY get a $750k home with $100k down, first mortgage for $600k over 30 years and second loan for $50k over 15 years.
For that, you can buy pretty much anywhere in Rockville, including most of Rockville's 20854 zip code.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 12:20
Subject: Re:Looking to move for a better public school
If I were you, I would consider Takoma Park MS cluster.
Solid school, your kids would have opportunity for magnet. Find good Elementary in that cluster.
For HS your kids would have options with consortium, and your home school will be Blair.
Crowded but given magnets (probably not accessible), still OK school.
At least your will have solid for ES and MS. You may need to pay for HS, but that would be only 4 years vs.12.
Solid school, your kids would have opportunity for magnet. Find good Elementary in that cluster.
For HS your kids would have options with consortium, and your home school will be Blair.
Crowded but given magnets (probably not accessible), still OK school.
At least your will have solid for ES and MS. You may need to pay for HS, but that would be only 4 years vs.12.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 12:17
Subject: Re:Looking to move for a better public school
NW High School/Matsunaga, McNair, Great Seneca, or Diamond ES
Mature neighborhoods with most of the houses 15-20 yo. A 2001 SFH in the Matsunaga neighborhoods go for about $600-650k.
Mature neighborhoods with most of the houses 15-20 yo. A 2001 SFH in the Matsunaga neighborhoods go for about $600-650k.
Anonymous
10/13/2016 12:10
Subject: Re:Looking to move for a better public school
Anonymous wrote:It's amazing -- realtors aren't allowed to answer the question of "where do I move to get away from the Hispanic people" so people come on here for the answer.
you don't need to come here for that answer - there are census data and school demographic data online.