Where can I find a copy of the latest AAP expansion proposal?

[Anonymous]

During the April 7, 2026 School Board work session, staff presented a comprehensive proposal to expand Advanced Academic Program (AAP) Centers to every Fairfax County middle school by the 2030–31 school year.

[Anonymous]

not sure how to see plan but mcdaniels sent a newsletter stating phasing starts next school year (26-27). wonder what schools they are implementing in first. what middles don’t have AAP? franklin? herndon? we are new to the county and have only seen those mentioned on boards

[Anonymous]

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DSKREP6DA992/$file/2026.04.07%20MS%20AAP%20Center%20Expansion%20Worksession.pdf

[Anonymous]

UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Because those of us with regular children not in AAP don't like you trying to take over our base schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

It's actually a cohort half that size - two classes of each grade level (since it's split between 7th and 8th). So either there is only one AAP English teacher, or two teaches have on AAP prep and then a mix of honors and Gen Ed (or team-taught).

I reach at an AAP center middle school and having multiple teachers in each grade/subject for AAP makes the program better and stronger.

[Anonymous]

PP. That should say "teach".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

You'll still be getting AAP services. Dedicated classes for your special little snowflakes. It's the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

It's actually a cohort half that size - two classes of each grade level (since it's split between 7th and 8th). So either there is only one AAP English teacher, or two teaches have on AAP prep and then a mix of honors and Gen Ed (or team-taught).

I reach at an AAP center middle school and having multiple teachers in each grade/subject for AAP makes the program better and stronger.

It's so obvious that you're just saying this because you are worried you'll be reassigned to a different school. The curriculum is the same no matter how many classes there are. Yes, you'll have to do more work because you can't mooch off your fellow teachers, but you'll be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

It's actually a cohort half that size - two classes of each grade level (since it's split between 7th and 8th). So either there is only one AAP English teacher, or two teaches have on AAP prep and then a mix of honors and Gen Ed (or team-taught).

I reach at an AAP center middle school and having multiple teachers in each grade/subject for AAP makes the program better and stronger.

It's so obvious that you're just saying this because you are worried you'll be reassigned to a different school. The curriculum is the same no matter how many classes there are. Yes, you'll have to do more work because you can't mooch off your fellow teachers, but you'll be fine.

I won't be affected, but thanks for your concern!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Because it's a huge waste of money. The bussing alone costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Think of it this way -- this may be the push we need to get them to start middle schools later because we will have money to buy more busses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Because it's a huge waste of money. The bussing alone costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Think of it this way -- this may be the push we need to get them to start middle schools later because we will have money to buy more busses.

We don't need more buses, FWIW. We need to do the common sense thing and start the elems earlier so the middle/highs can start later. It used to be that middle/highs started early, then all those buses were reused for elem routes, which were later.

When they started highs later, they said it was going to way increase money, and that's only because they didn't do the obvious thing and just swap the start times - they bought more buses so we could use them all for routes at roughly the same time. We don't need to double-down on that error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Because it's a huge waste of money. The bussing alone costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Think of it this way -- this may be the push we need to get them to start middle schools later because we will have money to buy more busses.

We don't need more buses, FWIW. We need to do the common sense thing and start the elems earlier so the middle/highs can start later. It used to be that middle/highs started early, then all those buses were reused for elem routes, which were later.

When they started highs later, they said it was going to way increase money, and that's only because they didn't do the obvious thing and just swap the start times - they bought more buses so we could use them all for routes at roughly the same time. We don't need to double-down on that error.

It will still come down to the fact that MS is only two years. No one wants their ES student to start as early as the MS’s do for 7 years.