TJ Students by FCPS Pyramid 2022-23

[Anonymous]

According to data recently posted by FCPS, each of the 24 other high school pyramids is now sending more than 10 kids to TJ, two years into the admissions changes, but there are still some big differences:

Chantilly 145
McLean 139
Langley 137
Oakton 113
Westfield 86
Woodson 72
Madison 57
Centreville 55
Annandale 53
Fairfax 52
Marshall 52
South Lakes 47
Robinson 45
West Springfield 39
Falls Church 31
Lewis 30
Lake Braddock 28
South County 28
Hayfield 27
Herndon 27
Edison 25
West Potomac 25
Justice 18
Mount Vernon 14

Note - These numbers include students whose families moved into a school district after their kids were admitted to TJ. TJ physically now sits within the Annandale HS district.

[Anonymous]

Looks like my kid can still get in via the automatic 5%. At least it appears that they're making an effort to serve the whole county now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like my kid can still get in via the automatic 5%. At least it appears that they're making an effort to serve the whole county now.

I think you mean the automatic 1.5%?

[Anonymous]

any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

Stop posting nonsense. TJ is an FCPS school that is also a Governor’s School. FCPS owns and operates TJ; FCPS rammed through the admissions changes at the school with little input from other participating districts or the VDOE; and FCPS could unilaterally decide to cease seeking the Governor’s School designation for TJ, which it does on an annual basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to data recently posted by FCPS, each of the 24 other high school pyramids is now sending more than 10 kids to TJ, two years into the admissions changes, but there are still some big differences:

Chantilly 145
McLean 139
Langley 137
Oakton 113
Westfield 86
Woodson 72
Madison 57
Centreville 55
Annandale 53
Fairfax 52
Marshall 52
South Lakes 47
Robinson 45
West Springfield 39
Falls Church 31
Lewis 30
Lake Braddock 28
South County 28
Hayfield 27
Herndon 27
Edison 25
West Potomac 25
Justice 18
Mount Vernon 14

Note - These numbers include students whose families moved into a school district after their kids were admitted to TJ. TJ physically now sits within the Annandale HS district.

What did these numbers look like before the admissions changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to data recently posted by FCPS, each of the 24 other high school pyramids is now sending more than 10 kids to TJ, two years into the admissions changes, but there are still some big differences:

Chantilly 145
McLean 139
Langley 137
Oakton 113
Westfield 86
Woodson 72
Madison 57
Centreville 55
Annandale 53
Fairfax 52
Marshall 52
South Lakes 47
Robinson 45
West Springfield 39
Falls Church 31
Lewis 30
Lake Braddock 28
South County 28
Hayfield 27
Herndon 27
Edison 25
West Potomac 25
Justice 18
Mount Vernon 14

Note - These numbers include students whose families moved into a school district after their kids were admitted to TJ. TJ physically now sits within the Annandale HS district.

What did these numbers look like before the admissions changes?

The OP said that it is the first year that there are more then 10 students from some of the high schools so we finally have all the numbers from each of the high schools. In prior years schools with fewer then 10 did not have a reported number. We know that McLean, Chantilly, Langley and Oakton have seen their numbers drop. I am going to guess that movement at the other schools has been marginal.

[Anonymous]

I’d like to see the data on AAP kids vs non for this past year as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see the data on AAP kids vs non for this past year as well.

I ask this because only two middles feed into Centreville - and less than 10 come from Liberty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like my kid can still get in via the automatic 5%. At least it appears that they're making an effort to serve the whole county now.

Agree it's better than just serving the families likely to invest heavy in prep but they need to set an upper bound too. Too many seats going to a handful of wealthy schools is not great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to data recently posted by FCPS, each of the 24 other high school pyramids is now sending more than 10 kids to TJ, two years into the admissions changes, but there are still some big differences:

Chantilly 145
McLean 139
Langley 137
Oakton 113
Westfield 86
Woodson 72
Madison 57
Centreville 55
Annandale 53
Fairfax 52
Marshall 52
South Lakes 47
Robinson 45
West Springfield 39
Falls Church 31
Lewis 30
Lake Braddock 28
South County 28
Hayfield 27
Herndon 27
Edison 25
West Potomac 25
Justice 18
Mount Vernon 14

Note - These numbers include students whose families moved into a school district after their kids were admitted to TJ. TJ physically now sits within the Annandale HS district.

What did these numbers look like before the admissions changes?

The top four each sent around 140-160 prior to the changes, so the biggest impact there has been fewer kids coming from the Oakton pyramid (probably coming out of Carson). Some pyramids had sent less than 10.