Title 1 Top 10%
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Anonymous
| Would you send your kid to a Title 1 school if the top 10% was guaranteed admission to UVA or another selective college? |
Anonymous
| Depends on the neighborhood and cohort. Struggle doesn’t put me off. Violence does. |
Anonymous
This. I wouldn't glorify attending a title 1 school purely for college admissions advantages. The four years in high school matter too. |
Anonymous
| Nope. Title 1 schools are sad. So many students below and far below grade level that your kid will be an outlier and I don’t want my kid being too of the class just for showing up and handing in work. |
Anonymous
| Not all Title 1 schools are the same. I actually sent my kid to a Title 1 school, and not for a guaranteed college admissions advantage (there was none). There was a magnet program that drew us, and also draws other ambitious students. That does not mean I would send my kid to just any Title 1 school. |
Anonymous
Funny that you think your kid wouldn’t have to work as hard. They still have AP. |
Anonymous
And they let students in those classes who aren’t qualified to be in them. The teachers have to spend time teaching to those students who are below grade level and it’s an impossible task. My DH is one of those teachers. He’s exhausted by it. |
Anonymous
| Big difference between Title 1 elementary school vs Title 1 high school. Strong students can find strong cohorts in AP and honors classes. My kids attend a school that is not quite Title 1, but close enough. It rarely sends kids to Ivys, but sends a few to UVA every year, and many more to VT. This is an fcps school. |
Anonymous
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There are one or two title 1 high schools in FCPS. Justice in Falls Church and maybe Bryant in Alexandria.
I could see sending my kid to these schools because what makes them title 1 is a high population of immigrants that are poor english language learners. Not violent, not criminal. But I wouldn't do it just for college admissions. It would have to be because it was the best option avasilable to me. |
Anonymous
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I wouldn't let that be the deciding factor but it could play a role in my decision making.
My kid is an magnet program at a Title 1 school. They have their cohort of friends from that magnet program and have been taking honors classes and some AP. My DS has made a lot of great friends. One upside of the Title 1 is that there are lots of leadership opportunities that would be a lot more competitive at a more affluent school. When they started I was worried about drugs, gangs and fighting but those were never issues. The school is well run and I've never had an issue with the students, staff or other parents. |
Anonymous
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I'm willing to send my kid to school with kids who want to learn. There are different mixes of kids who are willing.
The difficulty some suggest here is probably real. If the top 10% of a given HS doesn't get better than 1100 on the SAT, where should they get to go to college? They probably should get to go somewhere. But should it be a state flagship where that puts them in the bottom 5% of scorers? |
Anonymous
| What qualifies a school for Title 1? I don't live in the DMV area anymore. We live in a pretty affluent suburb in the Midwest, high achieving school district, high performing school, not many low SES students but I just looked on the state's website and it is listed as eligible and on a schoolwide program? |
Anonymous
We are a Justice family. We fell in love with our neighborhood and moved here despite people "warning" us that the schools were "bad." Our kids have done really well. They and their friends ended up at all kinds of schools—from Ivies to NOVA—but most are at UVA, W&M, VT, and JMU. I honestly don’t think they would have received a better education at another FCPS school. They also had opportunities they might not have had elsewhere: making just about any sports team they tried out for, leading clubs, building strong relationships with teachers, and growing up with a truly diverse (ethnically and socioeconomically) group of friends. I’m not saying all Title I schools are the same, but I wouldn't rule one out just because it’s Title I. Research consistently shows that parental involvement is one of the strongest predictors of student success, often more than school demographics or funding levels. Visit the school. Follow their Instagram accounts. Talk to parents and students who are at the school. Living in NOVA, where people often say they value diversity, I wish more families felt comfortable actually embracing it in their school choices. When families from different backgrounds share the same schools, it can be a great experience for kids. Schools really shouldn’t be as segregated as they sometimes are. |
Anonymous
Title 1 means the school has at least 40% of kids enrolled from low income families. Those school receive additional federal funding. |
Anonymous
| It would depend on the access to accelerated programs. Just having AP classes is not enough. As someone mentioned, AP classes are not the same everywhere. While they *should be, and the AP exam will be the same, a Title 1 school may have additional challenges in classes with students not being academically prepared, not being able to get through a years worth of curriculum, the teacher having to lower expectations in order to pass kids. Typically, title 1 schools won’t have math past Calc AB and have very limited AP options as well due to lower interest. My kids attend a Title 1 school. We are fortunate to live near a university where they dual enrollment for math, science, and English. They are pretty much only in school for electives, foreign language, and social studies. |