what are the best elementary schools in Fairfax Co?
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Anonymous
I've heard great things about Westbriar, but I understand the attendance island off Beulah may get reassigned, with the area north of Browns Mill Road moved to Colvin Run/Cooper/Langley, and the area south of Browns Mill moved to Wolftrap, but staying at Kilmer/Marshall. |
Anonymous
But for resale purposes you want to be in the pyramids with the best high schools. Seriously. My DS's high school is 26% Asian American. Those parents did not grow up in this neighborhood. The moved mtns. to buy or lease so that their kids could be in our pyramid and attend particular high schools. |
Anonymous
Absolutely agree. We are in Annandale HS boundary and thanks to the recent boundary change, there are not enough students scheduled for many IB courses for the fall so the school will not be able to offer the courses. (Yes, we are scrambling for our DC.) |
Anonymous
| That's sad. You think it was because FCPS moved Wakefield Forest to Woodson? What will you do? |
Anonymous
Probably going private |
Anonymous
Why does Haycock need more money that everyone else? If they are that overcrowded, shouldn't they just shrinkg the borders and rezone the school? |
Anonymous
Because the surrounding schools are at or over capacity too. They need to reopen Lewinsville or another school. Lewinsville was closed during the years when the school had declining enrollment. Same for Dunn Loring. The problem is over capacity everywhere. |
Anonymous
This petition related to a budget approved in May 2012. Haycock gets less money per student than most schools in the county, not more, because most of its students come to school well prepared and not in need of remediation. Class sizes remain larger than average for the county. Overcrowded classrooms and overcrowded schools are two different things. FCPS will relieve some of the overcrowding at Haycock by moving Cluster 2 AAP students to Lemon Road, but the individual classrooms are likely to continue to have above-average class sizes. In comparison, a school like Bailey's ES is also overcrowded, but individual class sizes remain below the county average. |
Anonymous
I wonder how much property values would go up overnight if a neighborhood got moved from Marshall to Langley. I might be good if you have kids in school or are planning to sell, but not so great if you end up having to pay more in property taxes. |
Anonymous
Are the classrooms still above average? My AAP child there is in a class that is smaller than my non-AAP child at another nearby school. Last year, the Haycock student's class size was 32 compared to 24 or 25 this year. |
Anonymous
What I don't understand is that they are complaining that the average class size is 26. This is the same in many of the ES schools inthe area. they are not unique in this respect. My children who are now in 8th and 10th grade (for one more day), never had a class that was smaller than 25 after kindergarten. It ranged from 25-34 throughout ES. It was at a school in the same pyramid. |
Anonymous
| I suspect the Haycock parents are resentful of the Title I schools with the small class sizes. I keep hearing veiled references from people there and on this site about it. |
Anonymous
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Class sizes were lower this past year than in some prior years, though still higher than average:
http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/ElmClassSizeAvg2012.pdf People who can afford Haycock can move to a neighborhood with Title I schools if they think the latter are getting a better deal. I don't hear that this happens too frequently. But advocating for one's fair share of resources, whatever that ultimately means, is not unique to Haycock. Falls Church HS parents also recently petitioned to have a charter school application in their area rejected because they thought it might delay Falls Church's renovation: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/support_fchs/ |
Anonymous
Can you advise as to which classes are not being offered? Did the administration offer any alternatives at all? |
Anonymous
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Our kids have been in three separate FCPS elementary schools and have never been in a class with less than 25 kids. (Non-Title 1). Haycock parents seem like entitled asshats! Its public school, people. I'd rather see teachers get raises before class sizes are reduced at high-achieving schools like Haycock. The test scores are great so obviously the class sizes are not impeding learning--credit to the teachers for that.
Signed, not a teacher. |