Best middle school in McLean/Vienna

[Anonymous]

Moving to the area. How would you rate Longfellow, Kilmer, Cooper? Looking for academically challenging environment for my kid and not sports heavy. Primarily interested in the best Honors program that’s not watered down.

Also do any of the schools have issues like bullying, drugs? Please share your experience good and bad.

[Anonymous]

All schools have bullying and drugs. ALL of them. The three you mentioned are all very strong academically and have some of the wealthier populations in the county.

[Anonymous]

Wow, the OP isn’t trolling *at all*.

OP, if you are legitimately asking this question, do a search on this forum. Plenty of threads on this topic.

[Anonymous]

How would one be able to rate these three? If your kid goes to one, then you can only talk about that one school—not the others.

[Anonymous]

Honors program is Middle School is all watered down.

[Anonymous]

Of those schools, find the house that works for you at a price point you can afford with a commute the adults can tolerate.

[Anonymous]

All three are fine. Pick the high school and house and go from there

[Anonymous]

It's hard to compare middle schools when there aren't as many obvious metrics for comparison as there are for high schools.

In terms of admissions to TJHSST, the STEM Governor's School, for the Class of 2029 there were 48 offers to Longfellow students, 25 offers to Cooper students, and 13 offers to Kilmer students.

[Anonymous]

Curriculum is standard across FCPS. Differences between those schools reflect demographics, not the school itself. Demographics of all those are pretty similar.

[Anonymous]

The reviews in Great School for Kilmer especially is very bad citing bullying plus watching inappropriate content in school laptop. How is this allowed to happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving to the area. How would you rate Longfellow, Kilmer, Cooper? Looking for academically challenging environment for my kid and not sports heavy. Primarily interested in the best Honors program that’s not watered down.

Also do any of the schools have issues like bullying, drugs? Please share your experience good and bad.

They all have AAP, but it really boils down to the most comprehensive center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: The reviews in Great School for Kilmer especially is very bad citing bullying plus watching inappropriate content in school laptop. How is this allowed to happen?

Are they old reviews? There have been times in the past where Kilmer was a mess with a string of bad principals but I think it’s better now. But they are about to move some of the nicer Kilmer/Marshall areas to Thoreau/Madison.

[Anonymous]

Academically, Longfellow will have the most smarter kids.

We are zoned for cooper/langley and we sent our second kid to private after sending our first to cooper.

Your kid will be in good academic company in any of these schools. I would find the house that fits your budget. Any decent home in cooper area is going to cost you $2m+. Longfellow and Kilmer have more affordable options.

[Anonymous]

Either Longfellow or Cooper as they feed into the better high schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honors program is Middle School is all watered down.

Sadly true. The current school board and Superintendent Reid are pushing Gatehouse to lower standards on every level in FCPS.

My advice to the OP would be find a good local private school.