Have any FCPS schools ever lost accreditation? What happens if they do?

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Subject says it all.

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Closest I can think of is Dogwood ES in Reston didn't meet No Child Left Behind benchmarks in the mid-00s. For a period of time, anyone zoned to Dogwood had a right to send their kids to two other elementary schools (may have been Sunrise Valley and Crossfield). Then Dogwood returned to good standing and the transfer option went away.

FYI, all schools in FCPS are currently fully accredited by the state, although some elementary schools (including Dogwood) have been flagged as needing intensive support, which means they'll get the most support and additional funds from the state.

[Anonymous]

Are any at risk for next year? Are there new criteria for evaluating schools in VA?

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I think maybe forestdale elementary in Springfield

[Anonymous]

The new accreditation rules were put in by Youngkin and his people. One goal: make public schools look worse so vouchers and charters and that ilk will get pushed through. If schools start losing their accreditation, ten bucks says that Spanberger will simply change the rules back to what they were. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think maybe forestdale elementary in Springfield

So you’re just going to post some musing in your head? And now when someone is looking up Forestdale ES, this post will come up, they can read your “thought” and maybe get a negative impression of the school.

Next time, require some more of yourself and verify. DCUM is great for your opinions. This isn’t an opinion. If you want to post something that can checked, then either check that it’s true or don’t post at all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think maybe forestdale elementary in Springfield

So you’re just going to post some musing in your head? And now when someone is looking up Forestdale ES, this post will come up, they can read your “thought” and maybe get a negative impression of the school.

Next time, require some more of yourself and verify. DCUM is great for your opinions. This isn’t an opinion. If you want to post something that can checked, then either check that it’s true or don’t post at all.

You could report the post.

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Anonymous wrote:Are any at risk for next year? Are there new criteria for evaluating schools in VA?

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/divisions/fairfax-county-public-schools

There’s the list of all the schools in FCPS. I didn’t bother copying it into Excel but I don’t think anything in FCPS is not Fully Accredited. ACPS has a few that are conditionally accredited and “intensive support.”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are any at risk for next year? Are there new criteria for evaluating schools in VA?

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/divisions/fairfax-county-public-schools

There’s the list of all the schools in FCPS. I didn’t bother copying it into Excel but I don’t think anything in FCPS is not Fully Accredited. ACPS has a few that are conditionally accredited and “intensive support.”

FCPS has a number that need intensive support as well.

[Anonymous]

At one point in past Justice High School lost accreditation; don't know what supports or options were offered at that time though. We remember being quite concerned as it was our zoned HS.

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Anonymous wrote:At one point in past Justice High School lost accreditation; don't know what supports or options were offered at that time though. We remember being quite concerned as it was our zoned HS.

I don’t believe this is true. There may have been a point where it was conditionally accredited or accredited with a warning, but it remained accredited. It wasn’t like at Dogwood, mentioned earlier, where there was a period in which students zoned for the school had an automatic right to transfer to another school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At one point in past Justice High School lost accreditation; don't know what supports or options were offered at that time though. We remember being quite concerned as it was our zoned HS.

I don’t believe this is true. There may have been a point where it was conditionally accredited or accredited with a warning, but it remained accredited. It wasn’t like at Dogwood, mentioned earlier, where there was a period in which students zoned for the school had an automatic right to transfer to another school.

Thank you for clarification; sorry if I got that wrong, it was enough to worry us at the time. -OP here.

[Anonymous]

They will move heaven and earth to avoid a not fully accredited school. As a PP mentioned if a school slips out of accreditation, people who are zoned for that school have the automatic option to attend elsewhere. It creates potential overcrowding situations at the receiving schools. And the optics are absolutely terrible.

The state standards for accreditation are not particularly tough. I don’t see any FCPS schools falling all the way to losing accreditation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At one point in past Justice High School lost accreditation; don't know what supports or options were offered at that time though. We remember being quite concerned as it was our zoned HS.

I don’t believe this is true. There may have been a point where it was conditionally accredited or accredited with a warning, but it remained accredited. It wasn’t like at Dogwood, mentioned earlier, where there was a period in which students zoned for the school had an automatic right to transfer to another school.

Thank you for clarification; sorry if I got that wrong, it was enough to worry us at the time. -OP here.

You may be a PP, but you are not the OP of this thread.—OP

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Anonymous wrote:They will move heaven and earth to avoid a not fully accredited school. As a PP mentioned if a school slips out of accreditation, people who are zoned for that school have the automatic option to attend elsewhere. It creates potential overcrowding situations at the receiving schools. And the optics are absolutely terrible.

The state standards for accreditation are not particularly tough. I don’t see any FCPS schools falling all the way to losing accreditation.

Our elementary school was in jeopardy about 7 years ago. FCPS pre-emptively made a few moves including sending the principal to another school.