2025-26 High School FARMS Rates Reported by VDOE
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Anonymous
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Large variations in FARMS rates persist in FCPS high schools, according to Virginia Department of Education data for the current school year:
Mount Vernon 55.4% Herndon 47.6% Justice 47.5% West Potomac 47.5% Falls Church 45.3% Lewis 43.8% Annandale 41.1% Edison 36.7% Westfield 35.8% Fairfax 34.5% South Lakes 31.4% Hayfield 31.3% Centreville 30.8% Marshall 24.1% South County 22.5% Lake Braddock 21.8% Chantilly 20.5% West Springfield 17.0% Oakton 16.5% Woodson 14.3% Robinson 13.8% TJHSST 13.7% McLean 13.2% Madison 10.1% Langley 4.6% Boundary changes adopted in January 2026 do not reflect any systematic effort to narrow these differences. On a stand-alone basis, the changes stand to increase the FARMS rates at Mount Vernon, Justice, Marshall, and Langley and reduce the rates at West Potomac, Falls Church, McLean, and Madison. The impact of the small Chantilly/Fairfax boundary change would likely be immaterial. The upcoming boundary adjustments for Skyview could also impact FARMS rates at Centreville, Chantilly, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield. |
Anonymous
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Boundary changes to address the discrepancy would at best just represent a temporary nod to equity because over time the SES sorting would continue with the new maps. Meanwhile people would leave FCPS entirely because of the social engineering. More farms homogeneity would come with a significant loss of high SES families.
Seems like the school board recognized this. |
Anonymous
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Corresponding figures for middle schools:
Jackson 50.6% Glasgow 50.5% Poe 48.2% Whitman 47.8% Sandburg 47.7% Holmes 47.6% Key 44.6% Herndon 43.4% Stone 40.1% Hughes 37.9% Hayfield 36.9% Johnson 34.6% Liberty 34.0% Twain 34.0% South County 24.3% Franklin 22.4% Carson 21.3% Thoreau 20.8% Rocky Run 20.7% Lake Braddock 20.5% Kilmer 19.9% Irving 16.0% Frost 14.7% Robinson 13.2% Longfellow 12.4% Cooper 4.0% |
Anonymous
| It would be helpful to see actual numbers and not just percentages and in middle school, to break out AAP vs zoned. |
Anonymous
You can get the raw numbers on the VDOE site. There is no breakdown of AAP students vs. non-AAP students (either living within or outside the base boundaries) at middle schools. |
Anonymous
| what is FARMS? do we have chickens and pigs at schools now? |
Anonymous
Interesting. FARM doubled at Langley in the past few years. |
Anonymous
I’m assuming it stands for Free and Reduced Meals |
Anonymous
| These numbers look low, I thought it was higher. |
Anonymous
| Westfield should drop since McNair and Coates are projected to move to Skyview. SLHS should grow losing Floris and maybe Fox Mill. Chantilly will probably remain stable. |
Anonymous
Nope. They are also losing Floris, so it doesn't seem likely to drop. Stone MS is their main feeder MS and that has a high FARMs rate. |
Anonymous
That’s because DCUM freaks out at any FARM rate in the teens. |
Anonymous
| None of you care. You don't attend the high FARM schools anyway. |
Anonymous
I don't know the numbers but I am assuming that the full move of McNair and Coates will be larger then the Floris numbers. Westfield will also pick up students that are shifted from Centreville but we don't know what ES are going to be moved. I am guessing that Westfield and SLHS will end up being bpretty similar. I was surprised that Westfield had a higher FARMs rate then SLHS. |
Anonymous
Some care because they don't want to attend the high FARMs rate school. |