AAP in Cunningham Park elementary

[Anonymous]

Hi,

New to this school.

If your kid is in AAP, what's your experience at level II and level III? Does it offer level IV or does that one goes to Louise Archer?

Any experience appreciated.

[Anonymous]

I would use every opportunity to get out of cunningham park it has one of the worst ratings in the area let alone Vienna.

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/vienna/472-Cunningham-Park-Elementary-School/

[Anonymous]

FYI- GreatSchools is not a fair indicator as it is generally.... pretty racist and classist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI- GreatSchools is not a fair indicator as it is generally.... pretty racist and classist.

Today GS ratings are just a reflection of neighborhood SES. Many wonderful schools that have economic diversity will get a low rating but provide a good or better education than any place. In fact, my kids went to school like this but class sizes were 30% smaller and kids got a lot more individual attention which was great for K-2.

[Anonymous]

My child is in 9th grade now, in all honors and finishing up Algebra 2. He was at CPES for the first year of local level AAP and 3rd-6th were great for him. Great teachers, great friends. One bad year, I guess, but the poor teacher had tons of personal issues and health problems.

He loved the school and is still great friends with the kids he knew there.

The principal is...kind of a quack...but the faculty are great.

[Anonymous]

I know several that have left the school to go to LAES for the 2021-2022 school year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would use every opportunity to get out of cunningham park it has one of the worst ratings in the area let alone Vienna.

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/vienna/472-Cunningham-Park-Elementary-School/

Which is funny because nearly every CP parent I know really likes the school and is happy with it. Great Schools is basically all test scores and FARMS rates, which doesn't really talk about school quality. Some of the highly rated schools are highly rated because they have school populations that don't really require much care and feeding from the school.

My kids went to Louise Archer - great for one, terrible for the other. (If your child is not AAP or has any sort of additional learning/accommodation need, I do not recommend going there.) One of the younger one's best friends went to CP for K-3 and then they moved to the LAES district. They liked LAES just fine, but they felt the school community was warmer and more welcoming at CP.