There are a host of older apartment buildings on Connecticut Avenue northward from Woodley Park that all are inbounds for good elementary schools: Eaton, Hearst, Murch.

And despite what one poster wrote, if you live within the boundaries of those schools you do not have to worry about the lottery for kindergarten and up. You simply have to enroll. The lottery is for families that want to go to schools outside their boundary or to charters.