Neighborhood Kids and Schools

[Anonymous]

We moved back to the area this summer, and our kids will attend a FCPS elementary school this fall.

While at a neighborhood HH recently, we discovered a few families send their kids to private and/or Catholic schools and others to the AAP center school. While there are families that send their kids to the boundary school, I was surprised (and a little disappointed) by the number that do not. I didn’t get into the *why* with these folks, yet.

My question is this: Where do the kids in your neighborhood attend school?

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

In my neighborhood, they all go to the local ES or the AAP center (which is still close). Very few go to private and those kids really have no connection to the kids in the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Very few in our area switched to the AAP center. A lot changed in 2020 and more and more went to private schools. It seemed to continue after. For my middle and high schooler, we know about half of families in our area in public school and half in private. It’s a good district but people have reasons. I have one kid in each.

The older they got, the more switched to private. Reasons we know include religion, more rigor or perceived better for college, special needs or sports.

[Anonymous]

Why do you care about what other neighborhoods do? Are you looking to move?

[Anonymous]

Same as your experience- it is a mix. Families are doing what works for them. I would never move to this area for the public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care about what other neighborhoods do? Are you looking to move?

The OP said they just moved back to FCPS.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, Most go to the zoned public ES.

[Anonymous]

It’s a mix in our neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Almost all the kids in our neighborhood go to our public schools (Woodson pyramid). I only know two families that don't.

[Anonymous]

Our zoned school is a center school. It used to be that 100% of the kids went to the local school but now it's more like 85%.

[Anonymous]

Most attend our local ES. A family moved in a few years ago and my child has tried to make friends, but they keep to themselves and stay on the DL. They either homeschool or attend private/religious school.

[Anonymous]

It's really too bad that neighborhood schools aren't what they once were. AAP centers have changed that whole dynamic, and not for the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's really too bad that neighborhood schools aren't what they once were. AAP centers have changed that whole dynamic, and not for the better.

+1

[Anonymous]

All over. Most to the local FCPS base school, a handful to the AAP center school, a handful homeschooled and a bunch to private religious based schools. I do wish everyone went to the same school for community building reasons, but it is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Same as the PP, but pre-covid the majority of the kids in our neighborhood attended our zoned ES. Many families left for the nearby Catholic school and they have not returned.