Longfellow MS - how many kids in a class?
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Anonymous
| Seems like a large jump in number of students with so many elementary feeders. How many kids in a class? Chances of friends from elementary school being in the same class? |
Anonymous
| What are the elementary schools feeding in? |
Anonymous
All of Chesterbrook and Haycock. Most of Kent Gardens (except for the out-of-boundary kids in the immersion program) and Franklin Sherman (small # of kids go to Cooper). The majority of Timber Lane (the rest go to Jackson). Some kids from Westgate and Lemon Road (most go to Kilmer) and some kids from Spring Hill (most go to Cooper). AAP kids from Churchill Road whose base school is Kent Gardens (the rest of CR goes to Cooper). |
Anonymous
I am mentally preparing for DS's friends to be spread to the wind next year... in fact it's a factor that's swaying me towards getting him a phone so he can keep in touch with them (previously I'd been thinking I'd wait til 8th). I've heard a lot of stories about friendships really resetting when they get to middle school. We're at Haycock FWIW. |
Anonymous
| Pretty sure there about 0% of middle schoolers without phones. My son was in AAP and still had very few friends from his base school in his classes in middle |
Anonymous
It seems odd to say "spread to the wind" when all of Haycock feeds to Longfellow. Do you just mean the Haycock kids will be part of a larger group of kids at Longfellow, or are you suggesting many will be going to different schools next year? In terms of kids at Longfellow coming from different elementary schools, the two biggest contingents will be the kids coming from Haycock and Kent Gardens. We were happy at Longfellow and getting the class size down by moving the AAP kids from Langley back to Cooper helped some (though there's also a lot of new development within the catchment area). Also a fan of Jim Patrick. |
Anonymous
| Though all Haycock go to Longfellow, due to very large setting, my 7th grader only have a few of his friends from ES who happened to be at the same class in MS (average 5 kids). He even has a class that he know no one before. He see his ES circle of friends at the cafeteria during lunch time. |
Anonymous
| There are a total of 10-11 ES that feed into Longfellow. They do get spread out. But making new friends can be a great experience. My kid had maybe 2 or 3 kids from their ES in core classes. Plus you have a choice of world language, electives, PE and a crazy amount of kids at lunch. |
Anonymous
This is the PP that made the "spread to the wind" comment. This is what I meant. |
Anonymous
It's 9 ES feeders now. If I had to guess in terms of the largest numbers in order it would be: (1) Haycock, (2) Kent Gardens, (3) Chesterbrook, (4) Franklin Sherman, (5) Timber Lane, (6) Spring Hill, (7) Westgate, (8) Lemon Road, and (9) Churchill Road. Used to be 10 before all of Colvin Run got assigned to Cooper. |
Anonymous
Churchill Road and Springhill go to Cooper. The only kids going to Longfellow from Churchill Road are the AAP kids that have Kent Gardens as the base school (very few). https://www.fcps.edu/resources/maps |
Anonymous
You're right about Churchill Road - that's why I suggested that out of the 9 schools sending kids to Longfellow that Churchill Road sends the fewest. Spring Hill is a split feeder to Cooper and Longfellow and the percentage of Spring Hill kids going to Longfellow is increasing again, after a small area zoned to Spring Hill was reassigned from Longfellow to Cooper, with the growth in Tysons. |