Do any northern virginia public schools still have half-day kindergarten?

[Anonymous]

just curious. title says it all.

[Anonymous]

A fair amount of Fairfax County - not sure about all of them but the McLean ones.

[Anonymous]

We live in Vienna I know that Flint Hill Elementary (our school) and Louise Archer don't have full-day. Here's a link to the schools with full-day kindergarten in Fairfax County. You can use process of elimination to determine which schools don't:

http://commweb.fcps.edu/directory/

Choose 'Search by Special Program' and then 'Full-Day Kindergarten'

[Anonymous]

Clifton, but it might be closed

[Anonymous]

I live in McLean and know that both Churchill Road and Spring Hill ESs don't have full day k.

[Anonymous]

Weird that all of Fairfax isn't under the same system, right? How do they decide which schools get full vs half?

[Anonymous]

They're supposed to be adding schools each year, starting with the lowest test score schools and going upward. In Springfield/Kingstowne area, the whole whole day schools I know of that have whole day K are so new there's no real history to judge.

But next year, a number of schools will lose full day K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're supposed to be adding schools each year, starting with the lowest test score schools and going upward. In Springfield/Kingstowne area, the whole whole day schools I know of that have whole day K are so new there's no real history to judge.

But next year, a number of schools will lose full day K.

I was told that full day k was not cut from the budget.

[Anonymous]

DS's kindergarten teacher seemed to think some schools would lose full-day K. I assume she's in the know.

[Anonymous]

No, no schools will lose full-day K. That was a big threat in the recent budget cycle, but it was saved.

[Anonymous]

For this year, no schools lost half day K. But the goal was for all FCPS schools to get full day K, but they are not adding full day K to any more schools at this time.

[Anonymous]

The ones that have full-day K are the ones in "poorer" neighborhoods or ones that tested lower, plus a couple others that were originally testing grounds for the program such as Westbriar in Vienna which is not considered a lower-income neighborhood but which has full-day K. They had originally wanted to phase full-day K into all schools, but they stopped due to budget cuts. Therefore, the schools in McLean, Vienna and Great Falls generally have 1/2 day K. For now, full-day K is saved. Who knows for next year.

[Anonymous]

Wakefield Chapel, Hunt Valley and Stratford Landing are all half day. Just the ones I know about.

[Anonymous]

Haycock is half-day, just like the other McLean schools.

[Anonymous]

FWIW I had a son go half day and one go full day both in Fairfax. I really don't see a big difference. The full day was actually quite hard on a 5 year old. It is very long and tiresome and it took months for the kids to make the adjustment. IMHO I think 5 is too young for all day schooling.