EDUCATION: A TOP PRIORITY FOR DC, MD, VA

Many parents when buying a home consider as one of their top priorities the school district and level of education their children will receive.

Recently NEWSWEEK recognized the top 1,300 high schools around the country for 2007 (The Top of the Class) "that do the best job of preparing average students for college", and what do you know--DC, Maryland, and Virginia had 13 high schools in the top 100 best high schools in the country. Here is the list:

13th H-B Woodlawn, Arlington, VA
21st Richard Montgomery H.S. , Rockville, MD
33rd Wash-Lee, Arlington, VA
46th Bethesda Chevy Chase, Bethesda, MD
59th Yorktown, Arlington, VA
63rd George Mason, Falls Church, VA
64th TS Wooton, Rockville, MD
65th WT Woodson, Fairfax, VA
72nd Langley, McLean, VA
73rd Walt Whitman, Bethesda, MD
76th McLean, McLean, VA
96th Banneker, Washington DC
100th Lake Braddock, Burke, VA