I am hoping that the higher house prices in AA than PG County helps us. With the BRAC movement of personnel down to Fort Meade the demand for housing (I hope) will keep prices up.
Most likely though, the areas west of Fort Meade(Laurel, Maryland City), and the Seven Oaks area of the county are pretty much PG County already, and will stay that way. Van Bokkelen (sp?) Elementary school can compare with the very worst schools in PG County. I don’t have much hope for Meade High School, with the eventual realignment of school boundaries. West county feeder schools are to be moved from Arundel High to Meade due to expected increase enrollment from areas east of Fort Meade, whose elementary schools already feed into Arundel High. We have a new Elementary School being built in my community. Now, if they would only build that 13th AA High School in Crofton. The county already has the land.
It seems like AA County schools are quite variable - the worst ones rivaling PG county, and the best are damn-near comparable to Howard County.