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Anonymous wrote:Do you need to be in NoVa, OP?

Montgomery County is less expensive than Fairfax and Arlington. For example, the least expensive HS pyramid in Fairfax County is Lewis HS, where the average single-family house has sold for $655,000 over the past 12 months. In Montgomery, there are 11 pyramids (Damascus, Einstein, Gaithersburg, Kennedy, Magruder, Northwood, Paint Branch, Rockville, Springbrook, Watkins Mill, Wheaton) is lower. At least some of these (Damascus, Einstein, Magruder, Rockville, and Wheaton) are considered stronger than Lewis.

Op here and I was looking at Moco. I am open to VA and think the instate options for kids college would be better in VA. I have a few older relatives in Alexandria but schools do not matter from them. The aap sounded like a good program. I hear different things about moco schools. I was wondering if I should consider Fairfax

Where do you have to commute to?
MoCo is ugly except for very wealthy areas. And the instate options in VA are better.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, keep in mind that there are no bad school pyramids in Fairfax County, where the schools are all at least good. Some high schools send more kids to more competitive colleges and universities, but a motivated and talented individual with engaged and supportive parents can do well from any County high school.

This is BS. Some of the worst school pyramids in the DC area (aside from PGCPS) are in Fairfax County. OP, pyramids you will want to avoid are Falls Church, Edison, Westfield, Herndon, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Lee, West Potomac, Justice, Hayfield. Those schools are almost entirely reliant on school lunch rations, and are heavy minority, mostly from Latin America. I honestly wouldn’t recommend any high school in FCPS, Langley is the bottom line but it is rapidly declining and will get zoned with some kids from Tyson’s, which will ruin its composition.

Op here this is response I was looking for. A quick zillow search shows houses under 600k. I was interested in how the schools compared to MD. I work from home and live in MD. I was considering Silver Spring or Odenton. I heard good things about AAP and was wondering if it was worth looking in Fairfax.

NOT A TROLL I was at the zoo with kids and not checking DCUM. Thank you for all the responses

OP, take that post with a grain of salt.
The fact that a school has a lot of minority kids is not the awful thing PP thinks it is.
We are a double Fed family and live in a quiet neighborhood of single family homes. My kid goes to South Lakes. He is in music, sports, gets good grades and has friends who are all different races and whose parents came from different countries. It is TOTALLY FINE. And I am by no means a bleeding heart lib.
Does South Lakes have problems? Of course it does. All schools do.
The so-called “good” high schools have plenty of their own problems and I’m not sure I’d want to trade for them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha ha ha. We wanted this 20 years ago and couldn’t find it! Get with the times!

Complete and total lie.

+1. Houses in my nice Fairfax neighborhood were $600k and under sometimes just before COVID drove the market crazy. That was only a few years ago. We should know as we bought one in 2019.

Of course. Bought my 2300 sqft house in Fairfax - Robinson for 550 in 2018.

OP - commute is King. Consider commute first.

Oakton 3 BR Townhouse

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10303-Cherry-View-Ct-Oakton-VA-22124/51799337_zpid/

Anonymous wrote:Do you need to be in NoVa, OP?

Montgomery County is less expensive than Fairfax and Arlington. For example, the least expensive HS pyramid in Fairfax County is Lewis HS, where the average single-family house has sold for $655,000 over the past 12 months. In Montgomery, there are 11 pyramids (Damascus, Einstein, Gaithersburg, Kennedy, Magruder, Northwood, Paint Branch, Rockville, Springbrook, Watkins Mill, Wheaton) is lower. At least some of these (Damascus, Einstein, Magruder, Rockville, and Wheaton) are considered stronger than Lewis.

Op here and I was looking at Moco. I am open to VA and think the instate options for kids college would be better in VA. I have a few older relatives in Alexandria but schools do not matter from them. The aap sounded like a good program. I hear different things about moco schools. I was wondering if I should consider Fairfax

Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking Op is a troll who just wanted to stir the pot about schools and housing market.

4+ pages of questions (commute, TH ok, fixer upper ok) and no response.

TH and fixer upper are definitely okay and I work from home.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, keep in mind that there are no bad school pyramids in Fairfax County, where the schools are all at least good. Some high schools send more kids to more competitive colleges and universities, but a motivated and talented individual with engaged and supportive parents can do well from any County high school.

This is BS. Some of the worst school pyramids in the DC area (aside from PGCPS) are in Fairfax County. OP, pyramids you will want to avoid are Falls Church, Edison, Westfield, Herndon, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Lee, West Potomac, Justice, Hayfield. Those schools are almost entirely reliant on school lunch rations, and are heavy minority, mostly from Latin America. I honestly wouldn’t recommend any high school in FCPS, Langley is the bottom line but it is rapidly declining and will get zoned with some kids from Tyson’s, which will ruin its composition.

Op here this is response I was looking for. A quick zillow search shows houses under 600k. I was interested in how the schools compared to MD. I work from home and live in MD. I was considering Silver Spring or Odenton. I heard good things about AAP and was wondering if it was worth looking in Fairfax.

NOT A TROLL I was at the zoo with kids and not checking DCUM. Thank you for all the responses

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, keep in mind that there are no bad school pyramids in Fairfax County, where the schools are all at least good. Some high schools send more kids to more competitive colleges and universities, but a motivated and talented individual with engaged and supportive parents can do well from any County high school.

This is BS. Some of the worst school pyramids in the DC area (aside from PGCPS) are in Fairfax County. OP, pyramids you will want to avoid are Falls Church, Edison, Westfield, Herndon, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Lee, West Potomac, Justice, Hayfield. Those schools are almost entirely reliant on school lunch rations, and are heavy minority, mostly from Latin America. I honestly wouldn’t recommend any high school in FCPS, Langley is the bottom line but it is rapidly declining and will get zoned with some kids from Tyson’s, which will ruin its composition.

Many of those school pyramids are fine if your kid is in AAP/Honors/AP classes.

I'm thinking Op is a troll who just wanted to stir the pot about schools and housing market.

4+ pages of questions (commute, TH ok, fixer upper ok) and no response.

Anonymous wrote:Also, keep in mind that there are no bad school pyramids in Fairfax County, where the schools are all at least good. Some high schools send more kids to more competitive colleges and universities, but a motivated and talented individual with engaged and supportive parents can do well from any County high school.

This is BS. Some of the worst school pyramids in the DC area (aside from PGCPS) are in Fairfax County. OP, pyramids you will want to avoid are Falls Church, Edison, Westfield, Herndon, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Lee, West Potomac, Justice, Hayfield. Those schools are almost entirely reliant on school lunch rations, and are heavy minority, mostly from Latin America. I honestly wouldn’t recommend any high school in FCPS, Langley is the bottom line but it is rapidly declining and will get zoned with some kids from Tyson’s, which will ruin its composition.

I would recommend Eastern Loudoun. The schools are typically Whites and Indians and thus have higher ratings, compared to the school pyramids in your range in Fairfax, which are less affluent and typically hispanic majorities. Depending on where you are commuting to, it will all depend. Good luck!

You can get a townhome/duplex in Huntington for under 600k. Most are only 2 bedrooms, but sometimes 3 bedrooms come on the market. The third bedroom is usually on the main floor or basement though. Not sure how old your kids are, but your kid should be fine in these schools if he/she can qualify for AAP.

Anonymous wrote:Do you need to be in NoVa, OP?

Montgomery County is less expensive than Fairfax and Arlington. For example, the least expensive HS pyramid in Fairfax County is Lewis HS, where the average single-family house has sold for $655,000 over the past 12 months. In Montgomery, there are 11 pyramids (Damascus, Einstein, Gaithersburg, Kennedy, Magruder, Northwood, Paint Branch, Rockville, Springbrook, Watkins Mill, Wheaton) is lower. At least some of these (Damascus, Einstein, Magruder, Rockville, and Wheaton) are considered stronger than Lewis.

We don’t know op’s commute, either. If op does not have a long commute or has a commute to Tyson’s or something, op can look at Loudoun county

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha ha ha. We wanted this 20 years ago and couldn’t find it! Get with the times!

Complete and total lie.

+1. Houses in my nice Fairfax neighborhood were $600k and under sometimes just before COVID drove the market crazy. That was only a few years ago. We should know as we bought one in 2019.

NP. I'm with the first poster. I was looking in 2014 and couldn't find a 4/2.5 bath house under 800k. I really needed 650k or less. I was looking in Falls Church and close to metro stations though and wanted a sfh. We nearly bought a town home that was 650k that was a 3/2.5.

All I can tell you is that our 4/2.5 SFH in Fairfax (not Falls Church, not particularly close to a metro station) was under $600k in fall 2019. We also looked at homes in that price point in other areas - granted, they were smaller houses or fixer uppers in Falls Church, but they were there. And this was, again, in 2019. I don’t know what to tell you other than that.