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Anonymous wrote:How do the community cultures compare? Looking at the Wooten school district versus Churchill? Specifically, wondering about sense of community, pressure cooker vibes, significant of wealth, etc.

The "school district" is MCPS. There are upcoming boundary studies for both Wootton and Churchill. If you're looking to buy your home, you should not assume that the school conveys with the residence.

Churchill is not part of the study. Churchill boundaries are such that even a minor shift would put kids into another top cluster like Whitman. So they don't bother looking at Churchill. I feel quite certain our home will always be part of Churchill despite not being in the walk zone, which isn't the best neighborhood by Potomac standards.

Technically no schools are part of the Crown study yet, since it hasn't been voted on. However, in preliminary discussions at the board table, Seth Adams listed Churchill as a possible inclusion. Which makes sense since it's overcrowded and borders Wootton which is under capacity.

Since when is Wootton under capacity? I thought it was way over (this was a couple of years ago though).

Every school in the Wootton cluster has available space:

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP25_Chapter4Wootton.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:How do the community cultures compare? Looking at the Wooten school district versus Churchill? Specifically, wondering about sense of community, pressure cooker vibes, significant of wealth, etc.

The "school district" is MCPS. There are upcoming boundary studies for both Wootton and Churchill. If you're looking to buy your home, you should not assume that the school conveys with the residence.

Churchill is not part of the study. Churchill boundaries are such that even a minor shift would put kids into another top cluster like Whitman. So they don't bother looking at Churchill. I feel quite certain our home will always be part of Churchill despite not being in the walk zone, which isn't the best neighborhood by Potomac standards.

Technically no schools are part of the Crown study yet, since it hasn't been voted on. However, in preliminary discussions at the board table, Seth Adams listed Churchill as a possible inclusion. Which makes sense since it's overcrowded and borders Wootton which is under capacity.

Since when is Wootton under capacity? I thought it was way over (this was a couple of years ago though).

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Anonymous wrote:How do the community cultures compare? Looking at the Wooten school district versus Churchill? Specifically, wondering about sense of community, pressure cooker vibes, significant of wealth, etc.

The "school district" is MCPS. There are upcoming boundary studies for both Wootton and Churchill. If you're looking to buy your home, you should not assume that the school conveys with the residence.

Churchill is not part of the study. Churchill boundaries are such that even a minor shift would put kids into another top cluster like Whitman. So they don't bother looking at Churchill. I feel quite certain our home will always be part of Churchill despite not being in the walk zone, which isn't the best neighborhood by Potomac standards.

Technically no schools are part of the Crown study yet, since it hasn't been voted on. However, in preliminary discussions at the board table, Seth Adams listed Churchill as a possible inclusion. Which makes sense since it's overcrowded and borders Wootton which is under capacity.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Rockville have alots of crime? I would move into a home in Potomac that feeds to Churchill, or if not there then a home in Bethesda that feeds into Whitman.

Fortunately people who are considering actions that are against the law are unable to cross the force field Rockville has set up on their municipal boundaries!

Even Bethesda has crime: murder, theft, carjackings... it's the 'hood.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Rockville have alots of crime? I would move into a home in Potomac that feeds to Churchill, or if not there then a home in Bethesda that feeds into Whitman.

Fortunately people who are considering actions that are against the law are unable to cross the force field Rockville has set up on their municipal boundaries!

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Rockville have alots of crime? I would move into a home in Potomac that feeds to Churchill, or if not there then a home in Bethesda that feeds into Whitman.

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Anonymous wrote:How do the community cultures compare? Looking at the Wooten school district versus Churchill? Specifically, wondering about sense of community, pressure cooker vibes, significant of wealth, etc.

The "school district" is MCPS. There are upcoming boundary studies for both Wootton and Churchill. If you're looking to buy your home, you should not assume that the school conveys with the residence.

Churchill is not part of the study. Churchill boundaries are such that even a minor shift would put kids into another top cluster like Whitman. So they don't bother looking at Churchill. I feel quite certain our home will always be part of Churchill despite not being in the walk zone, which isn't the best neighborhood by Potomac standards.

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Anonymous wrote:How do the community cultures compare? Looking at the Wooten school district versus Churchill? Specifically, wondering about sense of community, pressure cooker vibes, significant of wealth, etc.

The "school district" is MCPS. There are upcoming boundary studies for both Wootton and Churchill. If you're looking to buy your home, you should not assume that the school conveys with the residence.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to Churchill at the end of middle school. My child found a group of friends relatively easily but I don't know what that would have looked like without a sports team community.

It's mega affluent. We are very comfortable but our house is 1.1 as opposed to 2.2. It was a shock to me to see my kid's Snapchat location map during the first break and see his school friends were literally all over the world - dozens of them. Many of his friends order food every lunch period and indiscriminately order extra for others. I imagine it's $100s per week.

Academics are very solid. Lots of opportunities for interesting classes. Clubs are dynamic. Lots of motivated, well-rounded kids.

The community we've interacted with is smart, motivated, hard working, and overall we are really like the vibe. But affluenza is a serious thing. Our kid is pretty resilient and grounded and not upset that they might have the lowest HHI of a particular friend group (at 450K, ha!) but YMMV. This kind of environment can go screwy in many ways.

OP, are you paying attention?

Anonymous wrote:We moved to Churchill at the end of middle school. My child found a group of friends relatively easily but I don't know what that would have looked like without a sports team community.

It's mega affluent. We are very comfortable but our house is 1.1 as opposed to 2.2. It was a shock to me to see my kid's Snapchat location map during the first break and see his school friends were literally all over the world - dozens of them. Many of his friends order food every lunch period and indiscriminately order extra for others. I imagine it's $100s per week.

Academics are very solid. Lots of opportunities for interesting classes. Clubs are dynamic. Lots of motivated, well-rounded kids.

The community we've interacted with is smart, motivated, hard working, and overall we are really like the vibe. But affluenza is a serious thing. Our kid is pretty resilient and grounded and not upset that they might have the lowest HHI of a particular friend group (at 450K, ha!) but YMMV. This kind of environment can go screwy in many ways.