What are the top 10 AAP Centers in FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Out of the 24 AAP Centers in FCPS, which ones comprise the top 10?

http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/gt/centers.html

[Anonymous]

They are not ranked. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

what criteria would one use for determining this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are not ranked. What are you talking about?

A higher ranking AAP center would have more classes per grade, and would likely have math competition work offered during the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are not ranked. What are you talking about?

A higher ranking AAP center would have more classes per grade, and would likely have math competition work offered during the school day.

why is this a good thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out of the 24 AAP Centers in FCPS, which ones comprise the top 10?

http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/gt/centers.html

Too funny.

Perhaps the top 10 are the ones with the most helicopters hovering over the school grounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are not ranked. What are you talking about?

A higher ranking AAP center would have more classes per grade, and would likely have math competition work offered during the school day.

why is this a good thing?

More options to differentiate for far-above-grade-level instruction. (That, plus the peer grouping, makes AAP Centers that much better than Local Level IV.)

[Anonymous]

Alphabetcal order?

[Anonymous]

I thought Chesterbrook was a GT center? On their website, they claim to be a GT center.

http://commweb.fcps.edu/schoolprofile/profile.cfm?profile_id=035

[Anonymous]

A higher ranking AAP center would have more classes per grade, and would likely have math competition work offered during the school day.

Ok, I guess the AAP Center program, in itself, is still not good enough, so now we need to rank them so we can be more competitive and each try to make sure our child is in a "top 5" Center.

If number of classes and math competition work are your criteria, then go ahead and rank them yourself. . Let us know how it works out.

[Anonymous]

OP, I believe one of the old FCAG newsletters had a comparison of SOL Pass Advance percentages at the various GT centers. It might help you with a ranking, but the information is obviously dated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Chesterbrook was a GT center? On their website, they claim to be a GT center.

http://commweb.fcps.edu/schoolprofile/profile.cfm?profile_id=035

It looks like Chesterbrook is assigned to Haycock for Center kids.

http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/gt/designations.html

[Anonymous]

Chesterbrook and spring hill are both local level iv programs. They have very good reputations, but are not "magnet" centers which pull kids from other schools. Children who are gt center eligible and are in-boundary for either school can choose to attend the aap center that draws from several schools, to stay at their base school and attend the local level iv program there, or to defer eligibility for gt services and stay in their regular classrooms. Many other schools also have local level iv programs of varying size. All centers and local level iv programs can be found using tabs in that link in one of the early posts in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chesterbrook and spring hill are both local level iv programs. They have very good reputations, but are not "magnet" centers which pull kids from other schools. Children who are gt center eligible and are in-boundary for either school can choose to attend the aap center that draws from several schools, to stay at their base school and attend the local level iv program there, or to defer eligibility for gt services and stay in their regular classrooms. Many other schools also have local level iv programs of varying size. All centers and local level iv programs can be found using tabs in that link in one of the early posts in this thread.

Sounds to me that if a school offers Local IV but is not a magnet program and refers to it as GT is serving up a watered down version. I'd stick with the real GT center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chesterbrook and spring hill are both local level iv programs. They have very good reputations, but are not "magnet" centers which pull kids from other schools. Children who are gt center eligible and are in-boundary for either school can choose to attend the aap center that draws from several schools, to stay at their base school and attend the local level iv program there, or to defer eligibility for gt services and stay in their regular classrooms. Many other schools also have local level iv programs of varying size. All centers and local level iv programs can be found using tabs in that link in one of the early posts in this thread.

Sounds to me that if a school offers Local IV but is not a magnet program and refers to it as GT is serving up a watered down version. I'd stick with the real GT center.

I'm not sure that would necessarily be the rule in all cases. There are other reasons why people might opt for LLIV over an AAP center. For example, if you have LLIV, you don't get transportation. For some, that's a deal breaker. Some kids have very strong friendships in their base school, etc.

My DC is in an AAP Center, but our base school doesn't have LLIV. If they did, I might have been inclined to keep DC there. I have kids in 2 different elementary schools now and it's hard to manage as a FT WOHM.