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Hello everyone,
Our family will be moving to Saint Mary's County soon. My husband is retiring from the Navy and will be working for a defense contractor in the area. Our youngest child is a sophmore in high school, so we're pretty much shopping the area by the school districts. So far it's looking like Leonardtown, though much smaller than Lexington Park, has a better school, as far as test scores go. If anyone could make recommendations regarding good areas to live we'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
Here's some articles of what goes on just a short distance down the road from Great Mills High School:
"Detectives from the Bureau of Criminal Investigations Investigative and Narcotics Divisions, assisted by patrol officers from St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office, the Maryland State Police, Sheriff's Office Special Operations Division and St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division conducted a sting operation in Lexington Park. The operation was two (2) phases with the first phase focusing on the local prostitutes."
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2006/3606.shtml
"NARCOTICS STING OPERATION: Vice Narcotics Detectives were conducting a sting operation in Lexington Park when an undercover officer was approached by Mark Jerome Mason, 45, of Leonardtown. Mason offered Crack Cocaine to an undercover officer and led him to a nearby neighborhood. Once in the neighborhood Mason exited the vehicle and made contact with a group of individuals. It was then that Wayne Darnell Winters, 35, of Lexington Park produced an aluminum baseball bat and began to threaten the undercover officer. Winters swung the bat at the officer as he sat in a vehicle, causing the driver's side window to shatter. Others officers in the immediate area responded and a short foot chase ensued, leading to the apprehension of Winters."
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2007/6355.shtml
Lexington Park is home to our burgeoning population of nonprofit homeless shelters and counseling centers, so there's no shortage of nice characters running around just outside the gates of PAX River. The ones that don't like the rules at the shelter, such as no drugs or alcohol, live in the woods.
It's also home to the majority of the county's illegal immigrant population, which has Spanish speaking children to consume the school's resources...