FCPS Pyramid Placements to TJ 2024-25

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

That is 1353 total students.There are fewer than 550 freshmen this year.

And you can't explain the difference with froshmores.

How many come from Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William? I know Arlington used to cap it at 25 per year (so 100 in total), but I don’t know if they have changed that.

Those are good questions, but I'm not sure FCPS publicly releases that data. There are a lot more kids at TJ from Loudoun than Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

Link please.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Look at the tab for "Student Transfers." While it still refers to SY 2023-24, the data has actually been updated for SY 2024-25.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

That is 1353 total students.There are fewer than 550 freshmen this year.

And you can't explain the difference with froshmores.

How many come from Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William? I know Arlington used to cap it at 25 per year (so 100 in total), but I don’t know if they have changed that.

Every middle school now gets 1.5% admitted (around 8-10 students depending on the size of the school) - but counties still pay tuition. How many middle schools are there in Arlington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

That is 1353 total students.There are fewer than 550 freshmen this year.

And you can't explain the difference with froshmores.

How many come from Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William? I know Arlington used to cap it at 25 per year (so 100 in total), but I don’t know if they have changed that.

Every middle school now gets 1.5% admitted (around 8-10 students depending on the size of the school) - but counties still pay tuition. How many middle schools are there in Arlington?

Arlington has five middle schools with 8th grade enrollments that currently range from 296 to 368 students (so smaller than a typical FCPS middle schools). There are also 82 8th graders in the HB Woodlawn program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

That is 1353 total students.There are fewer than 550 freshmen this year.

And you can't explain the difference with froshmores.

TJ has about 2100 students. These are the students from Fairfax County. FCPS indicates the base pyramids of those students on its capacity dashboard. They are reported as "transfers" although most of these students always attended TJ for HS.

So there are 133 kids who live within the McLean boundaries at TJ this year, all the way down to Mount Vernon with 24. It shows that every FCPS pyramid is now represented but some continue to be represented more than others.

Note that Annandale has 56 students. That doesn't mean those kids necessarily attended middle schools near Annandale. If a family moves into the Annandale pyramid, the geographical area of which includes TJ, after a kid gets admitted to TJ, it shows up as a "transfer" from Annandale.

Oh OK. The title and text and numbers were not computing for me. This makes more sense, thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

That is 1353 total students.There are fewer than 550 freshmen this year.

And you can't explain the difference with froshmores.

TJ has about 2100 students. These are the students from Fairfax County. FCPS indicates the base pyramids of those students on its capacity dashboard. They are reported as "transfers" although most of these students always attended TJ for HS.

So there are 133 kids who live within the McLean boundaries at TJ this year, all the way down to Mount Vernon with 24. It shows that every FCPS pyramid is now represented but some continue to be represented more than others.

Note that Annandale has 56 students. That doesn't mean those kids necessarily attended middle schools near Annandale. If a family moves into the Annandale pyramid, the geographical area of which includes TJ, after a kid gets admitted to TJ, it shows up as a "transfer" from Annandale.

Thanks!

NP.

In analyzing these numbers, it might be interesting to cross-reference race.

For Fairfax County alone, the 2020 census indicated Fairfax has a white population of 47.12%.
As a whole, TJ has a total minority population of just over 80%, with the largest cohort consisting of Asian students, while the census reflected an “Asian alone” population of 20.33%.

This data is somewhat skewed by the newer categories on the census for “mixed,” as well as being 4 years old, and other factors, such as counting FFX alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

That is 1353 total students.There are fewer than 550 freshmen this year.

And you can't explain the difference with froshmores.

TJ has about 2100 students. These are the students from Fairfax County. FCPS indicates the base pyramids of those students on its capacity dashboard. They are reported as "transfers" although most of these students always attended TJ for HS.

So there are 133 kids who live within the McLean boundaries at TJ this year, all the way down to Mount Vernon with 24. It shows that every FCPS pyramid is now represented but some continue to be represented more than others.

Note that Annandale has 56 students. That doesn't mean those kids necessarily attended middle schools near Annandale. If a family moves into the Annandale pyramid, the geographical area of which includes TJ, after a kid gets admitted to TJ, it shows up as a "transfer" from Annandale.

Thanks!

NP.

In analyzing these numbers, it might be interesting to cross-reference race.

For Fairfax County alone, the 2020 census indicated Fairfax has a white population of 47.12%.
As a whole, TJ has a total minority population of just over 80%, with the largest cohort consisting of Asian students, while the census reflected an “Asian alone” population of 20.33%.

This data is somewhat skewed by the newer categories on the census for “mixed,” as well as being 4 years old, and other factors, such as counting FFX alone.

If you are going to look at race, look at it based on the current school population- the total (especially older adults) is skewed more white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

That is 1353 total students.There are fewer than 550 freshmen this year.

And you can't explain the difference with froshmores.

How many come from Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William? I know Arlington used to cap it at 25 per year (so 100 in total), but I don’t know if they have changed that.

Every middle school now gets 1.5% admitted (around 8-10 students depending on the size of the school) - but counties still pay tuition. How many middle schools are there in Arlington?

I don't think Arlington uses that formula

[Anonymous]

Also, you have kids that live in the Centreville boundary, but went to Rocky Run for middle/Chantilly boundary for middle. So although it says Centreville has XX, I'd be curious how many actually came from Liberty. Let's say 8 got in for the past 3 years, that really leaves about half that didn't attend Centreville's feeder/are AAP.

Same could be said for Westfield with some of those kids attending Rocky Run as well.

I wish they showed AAP status of the admitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, you have kids that live in the Centreville boundary, but went to Rocky Run for middle/Chantilly boundary for middle. So although it says Centreville has XX, I'd be curious how many actually came from Liberty. Let's say 8 got in for the past 3 years, that really leaves about half that didn't attend Centreville's feeder/are AAP.

Same could be said for Westfield with some of those kids attending Rocky Run as well.

I wish they showed AAP status of the admitted.

Yes, that's correct. The information in the OP tells you the high schools that TJ students living in Fairfax County would be assigned to if they weren't attending TJ. It doesn't tell you what middle schools they attended. FCPS releases some information on the middle school admissions to TJ, but won't give you the exact number if it's fewer than 10.

In the case of Liberty, based on the 1.5% set-aside, Liberty is guaranteed about 7 slots every year, so in theory at least 28 kids now at TJ should have attended Liberty. No doubt more TJ students attended Rocky Run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, you have kids that live in the Centreville boundary, but went to Rocky Run for middle/Chantilly boundary for middle. So although it says Centreville has XX, I'd be curious how many actually came from Liberty. Let's say 8 got in for the past 3 years, that really leaves about half that didn't attend Centreville's feeder/are AAP.

Same could be said for Westfield with some of those kids attending Rocky Run as well.

I wish they showed AAP status of the admitted.

Yes, that's correct. The information in the OP tells you the high schools that TJ students living in Fairfax County would be assigned to if they weren't attending TJ. It doesn't tell you what middle schools they attended. FCPS releases some information on the middle school admissions to TJ, but won't give you the exact number if it's fewer than 10.

In the case of Liberty, based on the 1.5% set-aside, Liberty is guaranteed about 7 slots every year, so in theory at least 28 kids now at TJ should have attended Liberty. No doubt more TJ students attended Rocky Run.

NP.

Thank you OP for providing this data.

Others: YES - its obvious the data in imperfect, as it does not differentiate:

- private school students
- home schooled students
- non FFX county students

And it does not account for split-feeder schools. So, for example, while Longfellow traditionally matriculated 100% to McLean HS (minus TJ admits), other HS receive students from multiple MS.

Still, it provides a rough approximation.

[Anonymous]

Why are there so few TJ students admitted from the Justice, Herndon, and Mount Vernon pyramids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so few TJ students admitted from the Justice, Herndon, and Mount Vernon pyramids?

Is there a center school in any of those pyramids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has updated its dashboard to indicate 2024-25 schools transfers.

Transfers by pyramid of residence into TJHSST for 2024-25:

McLean 133
Chantilly 119
Langley 116
Oakton 101
Woodson 92
Marshall 82
Westfield 72
Madison 66
West Springfield 58
Fairfax 57
Annandale 56
Robinson 50
Centreville 46
Lewis 39
Hayfield 36
Lake Braddock 33
South Lakes 33
West Potomac 33
Edison 32
South County 29
Falls Church 27
Justice 26
Herndon 25
Mount Vernon 24

Link please.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Look at the tab for "Student Transfers." While it still refers to SY 2023-24, the data has actually been updated for SY 2024-25.

This is the most BS Tableau dashboard I've ever seen. Please get some of those TJ kids to design a proper dashboard that gives you some intuitive information. I shudder to think of the nonsense "data" people FCPS has on staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so few TJ students admitted from the Justice, Herndon, and Mount Vernon pyramids?

Is there a center school in any of those pyramids?

Justice pyramid has AAP centers at Belvedere ES and Glasgow MS.

Herndon pyramid has an AAP center at Clearview ES.

Mount Vernon pyramid has an AAP center at Riverside ES.