How is Oakton high?

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Anonymous wrote:When we were looking for house, we seriously considered Oakton High because there were lots of houses walking distance from the school. For us, that would have been a big advantage for our children to be able to walk home after school activities, sports games, etc. The downside is that it is a huge school.

Huge school yes, but where did you find a small school in FCPS?

There are 25 high/secondary schools in FCPS. In some years the number of freshmen at Oakton has been above 700 and among the top two or three in terms of 9-12 enrollment. So it’s not hard to find a smaller school in FCPS.

Don’t they all have 500+ kids per grade? Happy to learn of one that doesn’t, but I’m not aware of any.

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Anonymous wrote:When we were looking for house, we seriously considered Oakton High because there were lots of houses walking distance from the school. For us, that would have been a big advantage for our children to be able to walk home after school activities, sports games, etc. The downside is that it is a huge school.

Huge school yes, but where did you find a small school in FCPS?

There are 25 high/secondary schools in FCPS. In some years the number of freshmen at Oakton has been above 700 and among the top two or three in terms of 9-12 enrollment. So it’s not hard to find a smaller school in FCPS.

Don’t they all have 500+ kids per grade? Happy to learn of one that doesn’t, but I’m not aware of any.

Lewis barely clears 400 per grade.

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Anonymous wrote:I see no one has refuted the “full of rich kids” statement.

What FCPS high school has the appropriate wealth mix, in your opinion? Genuinely asking.

I think Chantilly has a better mix.

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I would send my kids there. We live close by and are often there because my kids have games at the fields. I never go on 66. The boundaries are weird in the entire area and my kids have friends that live closer to Oakton but go to different schools. They also have friends that live closer to Madison and attend Marshall. This is not an issue only at Oakton. I think all of the schools in that area are good.

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Anonymous wrote:I see no one has refuted the “full of rich kids” statement.

Rich kids parents pay taxes.

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Very child specific high school. Very big school, overcrowded despite renovation. As long as your student has a specific group they will be ok. Competetive sport teams so "good" may not be good enough. The school values the brightest students so AP has morre seasoned capable staff. Gen ed not so much. Madison is a much better school.

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Anonymous wrote:I see no one has refuted the “full of rich kids” statement.

What FCPS high school has the appropriate wealth mix, in your opinion? Genuinely asking.

An appropriate mix is a number of FARMs that is close to the FCPS average of around 30%. It's not about playing games or politics. It just makes sense from a facilities and programming perspective to have schools across the system have similar distribution of needs. Otherwise we end up with large discrepancies in opportunity across the area as is currently the case.

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Anonymous wrote:When we were looking for house, we seriously considered Oakton High because there were lots of houses walking distance from the school. For us, that would have been a big advantage for our children to be able to walk home after school activities, sports games, etc. The downside is that it is a huge school.

Huge school yes, but where did you find a small school in FCPS?

There are 25 high/secondary schools in FCPS. In some years the number of freshmen at Oakton has been above 700 and among the top two or three in terms of 9-12 enrollment. So it’s not hard to find a smaller school in FCPS.

You still didn’t answer the question. I graduated with over 600 in Chantilly 25 yrs ago. Most of the schools were that large.

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Anonymous wrote:When we were looking for house, we seriously considered Oakton High because there were lots of houses walking distance from the school. For us, that would have been a big advantage for our children to be able to walk home after school activities, sports games, etc. The downside is that it is a huge school.

Huge school yes, but where did you find a small school in FCPS?

There are 25 high/secondary schools in FCPS. In some years the number of freshmen at Oakton has been above 700 and among the top two or three in terms of 9-12 enrollment. So it’s not hard to find a smaller school in FCPS.

You still didn’t answer the question. I graduated with over 600 in Chantilly 25 yrs ago. Most of the schools were that large.

That’s not even remotely true. Most schools did not have graduating classes over 600 in the late 90s. Only a few schools in the western part of the county along with Lake Braddock and Robinson would have had over 600 seniors. Some schools like Marshall had fewer than 400 seniors back then.

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Google search the Blake Lane traffic fatalities with an OHS graduate at the wheel.

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Anonymous wrote:When we were looking for house, we seriously considered Oakton High because there were lots of houses walking distance from the school. For us, that would have been a big advantage for our children to be able to walk home after school activities, sports games, etc. The downside is that it is a huge school.

Huge school yes, but where did you find a small school in FCPS?

There are 25 high/secondary schools in FCPS. In some years the number of freshmen at Oakton has been above 700 and among the top two or three in terms of 9-12 enrollment. So it’s not hard to find a smaller school in FCPS.

You still didn’t answer the question. I graduated with over 600 in Chantilly 25 yrs ago. Most of the schools were that large.

That’s not even remotely true. Most schools did not have graduating classes over 600 in the late 90s. Only a few schools in the western part of the county along with Lake Braddock and Robinson would have had over 600 seniors. Some schools like Marshall had fewer than 400 seniors back then.

We had 626 seniors in 1997. Fact.

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Anonymous wrote:When we were looking for house, we seriously considered Oakton High because there were lots of houses walking distance from the school. For us, that would have been a big advantage for our children to be able to walk home after school activities, sports games, etc. The downside is that it is a huge school.

Huge school yes, but where did you find a small school in FCPS?

There are 25 high/secondary schools in FCPS. In some years the number of freshmen at Oakton has been above 700 and among the top two or three in terms of 9-12 enrollment. So it’s not hard to find a smaller school in FCPS.

You still didn’t answer the question. I graduated with over 600 in Chantilly 25 yrs ago. Most of the schools were that large.

That’s not even remotely true. Most schools did not have graduating classes over 600 in the late 90s. Only a few schools in the western part of the county along with Lake Braddock and Robinson would have had over 600 seniors. Some schools like Marshall had fewer than 400 seniors back then.

We had 626 seniors in 1997. Fact.

That doesn’t establish that “most” FCPS high schools had over 600 seniors in the late 90s. You can’t project to over 20 high/secondary schools from a sample of one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see no one has refuted the “full of rich kids” statement.

What FCPS high school has the appropriate wealth mix, in your opinion? Genuinely asking.

An appropriate mix is a number of FARMs that is close to the FCPS average of around 30%. It's not about playing games or politics. It just makes sense from a facilities and programming perspective to have schools across the system have similar distribution of needs. Otherwise we end up with large discrepancies in opportunity across the area as is currently the case.

So you want county-wide busing, which would push more MC/UMC families out of FCPS and further drive up FARMS rates? It would be a vicious cycle as you’d be demanding every school have 35% or 40% FARMS in a few more years.

No thanks. Meet the needs of students where they live.

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OP might want to consider Lewis, Herndon, Falls Church and Annandale HS.

How dare you attempt to enroll your child in a low FARMs school? You’d be better served moving to an apartment in any of the above listed communities and send your DC to the neighborhood HS.

We are terrible parents for working hard and buying a home and sending of DC to the best schools we can afford. I do t understand this mentality.

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Anonymous wrote:When we were looking for house, we seriously considered Oakton High because there were lots of houses walking distance from the school. For us, that would have been a big advantage for our children to be able to walk home after school activities, sports games, etc. The downside is that it is a huge school.

Huge school yes, but where did you find a small school in FCPS?

There are 25 high/secondary schools in FCPS. In some years the number of freshmen at Oakton has been above 700 and among the top two or three in terms of 9-12 enrollment. So it’s not hard to find a smaller school in FCPS.

You still didn’t answer the question. I graduated with over 600 in Chantilly 25 yrs ago. Most of the schools were that large.

That’s not even remotely true. Most schools did not have graduating classes over 600 in the late 90s. Only a few schools in the western part of the county along with Lake Braddock and Robinson would have had over 600 seniors. Some schools like Marshall had fewer than 400 seniors back then.

We had 626 seniors in 1997. Fact.

That doesn’t establish that “most” FCPS high schools had over 600 seniors in the late 90s. You can’t project to over 20 high/secondary schools from a sample of one.

True. I graduated from Oakton in the mid-1990s and we had somewhere between 425-450 seniors in my graduating class.