Are the FCPS schools vastly superior than LCPS?

[Anonymous]

20:08. I’m a high school teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: no

Anonymous wrote:False. FCPS is not better than LCPS or really any other local county. They love to hype themselves, but in our experience FCPS is just not great at all.

would you care to share a little more of your experience? Is this for elementary/middle/high ? And if there are more specifics on what you liked or disliked about either ?

Very little esol/FARMs/multifamily housing in lcps

LCPS has 2 Title 1 schools, and in FCPS it’s about 1/2 the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:False. FCPS is not better than LCPS or really any other local county. They love to hype themselves, but in our experience FCPS is just not great at all.

DP, I sub in both districts. I’d take a day with LCPS any day over FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not. If FCPS is better, it’s not vastly better. Whenever they rank the top HSs in the country, there is a mixture of the two counties at the top.

[Anonymous]

Top 10 high schools in the state - 8 from FCPS and none from LCPS:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 high schools in the state - 8 from FCPS and none from LCPS:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia

One of the criteria is serving low socio-economic populations which is so much higher in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 high schools in the state - 8 from FCPS and none from LCPS:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia

One of the criteria is serving low socio-economic populations which is so much higher in FCPS.

No sanctuary cities out in LCPS. And if you want to live out there, you’ve got to be able to afford to buy a house & a car like a grown adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 high schools in the state - 8 from FCPS and none from LCPS:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia

One of the criteria is serving low socio-economic populations which is so much higher in FCPS.

No sanctuary cities out in LCPS. And if you want to live out there, you’ve got to be able to afford to buy a house & a car like a grown adult.

I don't think this is the reason. After teaching in title 1, we moved out to a middle class suburb so our snowflake could go to school without the distractions a low income population brings to a classroom. The school was way worse than the title 1. The problem is fcps, not poor people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher, we pulled our oldest in HS out of FCPS for private. I’m staying teaching but it’s changed so much in the past twenty years and the focus is on the crazy theme of the month instead of academics. My kid wasn’t happy. Our younger kids seem to be doing okay and will likely stay in FCPS through graduation. We will see what happens when they get to high school.

DH and I often talk about if we should move to Loudoun or someplace farther out. We won’t because we don’t know if it would be better.

I know people in $$$ areas pulling their kids out for charter or private because their public is apparently terrible.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been very disappointed with FCPS. So much focus on everything but academics. I’d be cute hear more about how LCPS compares.

[Anonymous]

Anyone generalizing about a school district the size of FCPS is for the most part talking nonsense. There's well over 100 ES alone. The quality of teachers and administrators vary greatly.

Even within a given ES the student/family experiences are going to vary wildly as well. Whether you child is going to have a great experience and thrive is going to depend on myriad factors, but pretty low among them is whether that school is on the Fairfax (Navy) or Loudon (Hillside) side of the county line and any sort of associated macro school-district-wide issue.

[Anonymous]

LOL, your realtor is just trying to make more money off of you by making you bid up the price of that one house in Franklin Farm. LCPS is just fine, go that route if you don't have a commute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL, your realtor is just trying to make more money off of you by making you bid up the price of that one house in Franklin Farm. LCPS is just fine, go that route if you don't have a commute.

And you’ll probably save 100-200K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL, your realtor is just trying to make more money off of you by making you bid up the price of that one house in Franklin Farm. LCPS is just fine, go that route if you don't have a commute.

This is also what I was thinking. FCPS is fine. They do have this aap thing but they’re working on reducing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 high schools in the state - 8 from FCPS and none from LCPS:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia

One of the criteria is serving low socio-economic populations which is so much higher in FCPS.

That must be why TJ, Langley, McLean, and Marshall are the top four in the state.