Best AAP centers in FCPS

[Anonymous]

What are considered the top 3 elementary school AAP centers in the FCPS area? Particularly ones that feed into Madison, Oakton and South Lakes HS?

[Anonymous]

Rachel Carson?

[Anonymous]

How would anyone know that? People only have experience with their particular center, and maybe some second-hand knowledge of other centers from a few friends.

[Anonymous]

Meant to say any aap schools that feed into Rachel Carson MS

[Anonymous]

Our ES feeds into Oak Hill. We did not send our child to Oak Hill, we deferred services. We know a handful of families who have sent their kids to Oak Hill, all but one wish they had stayed at the base. The consensus seems to be that it is academically great but socially awful. Their kids did not end up developing friendships with kids from other schools or Oak Hill. There were no birthday parties, after school get togethers, or weekend get togethers. The family I know that was happy there had a bullying situation at the base school. A second family moved to their area when their child was in 5th grade and he went to Oak Hill (already AAP place) and seemed to enjoy it but that family choose to keep their daughter at the base when she was placed this year. We are talking about 7 total families who have discussed their Oak Hill experience so a really small sample size. We are in Scouts with the parents of the kids who attended and pretty much all but one said that they wish they had pulled their kid or not sent them. There are also kids who return to the base pretty much every year. I don't know many of those families so I don't know if it was grades, social, or easier for the family to be at the base. I will also say that the families who stayed at Oak Hill had kids in Algebra in 7th grade, which I take as a sign that they did fine academically.

And it could be a different story for kids who attend Oak Hill as their base school because they will be getting to know kids in their neighborhood and earlier in school.

I don't know how many AAP classes Oak Hill has per grade or anything along those lines. This is all anecdotal.

[Anonymous]

Best in what way OP?

[Anonymous]

Maybe not best, but which ones are parents very happy with? Are there any to stay away from? The only school I know of is Loiuse Archer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would anyone know that? People only have experience with their particular center, and maybe some second-hand knowledge of other centers from a few friends.

+1000 Threads like this are so annoying. Stop trying to control everything with this crowdsourcing. Find a house that works for your family, your budget and your commute. Trust that you are engaged enough with your kids and their education. They’ll be fine. I’m sure OP’s parents weren’t surveying for anonymous, baseless rankings, and OP probably turned out fine.

[Anonymous]

So then should kids go to the closest college to their house? They will be fine as well.

[Anonymous]

AAP isn’t very good anyway. Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

The one where my child is, because then your child might be privileged enough to bask in their glow on the playground.

They all follow the same curriculum, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AAP isn’t very good anyway. Get a grip.

Says the parent of a kid not in the program. IYKYK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The one where my child is, because then your child might be privileged enough to bask in their glow on the playground.

They all follow the same curriculum, OP.

What I've learned from following this forum over the years is that they don't. That might be what OP is getting at - but I think the differences are not about the school but more about the students in any particular class. So this is a question that really cannot be answered.