• On 395 Southbound from the District, exit onto Route 1 South.

• Go past Pentagon City/Crystal City and past the Potomac Yards shopping center.

• Turn right onto Monroe Avenue, then make your first left onto Leslie Avenue. (There are detour signs to bear right onto E Monroe Ave before the old bridge which is under construction. This detour is rather hard to see. You may want to just turn right on E Custis, then left on Dewitt, left on E Monroe, and a right on Leslie Ave. )

• Commonwealth Academy is 2 blocks down on the left at the bend in the road.