FCPS High School prestige ranking
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Anonymous
What a weird comment. TJ is 81% minority. McLean is 53% minority. Langley is 49% minority. Why are you focusing on kids’ race, and specifically white children, PP ? |
Anonymous
There are only 3 FCPS high schools that are majority white. Madison, Robinson and Langley. Langley is hoovering around 50%, so in a few years only Madison and Robinson will be majority white. The rest are majority minority. Focusing on race like that is so strange given how diverse this area is and how intertwined the schools and neighborhoods are. |
Anonymous
McLean is majority minority, 47.9% white, based on the school profiles. Langley is just over 51% white, and steadily falling. It will be majority minority in a year or two. |
Anonymous
| Better schools have wealthier families. That is it. I am a former private school teacher and taught a lot of white kids. They weren’t regurlaly the brightest. Wealthy students of any race/background raise test scores. It is that simple. |
Anonymous
| I thought the school board told us that all the schools are the exact same. |
Anonymous
This. The list is just a list of which schools have higher socio-economic status. But here's the thing: kids can still get into top-ranked colleges even while attending a school in a lower socio-economic area. So parents could pay less for a mortgage and still get the same college success. |
Anonymous
That’s right. For the middle and upper middle class and up, this area is among the most diverse in the country, especially north and west of DC and N Arlington/Falls Church City. This isn’t Main Line Phila where race is still used as a proxy for wealth. |
Anonymous
They all teach the same curriculum. Wealthier kids just have more support at home. Wealthy kids at high FARMS schools do just fine. |
Anonymous
Langley became majority minority in October 2024 and remains so now. |
Anonymous
Not possible. All we hear in these forums is that Langley families are “Lily White racists”. Now you’re telling us it’s a majority minority school? Seems like the social justice warriors are full of $hit. |
Anonymous
The Asian enrollment at Langley has skyrocketed in recent years. These are affluent families. But, Langley is no longer majority White. Cooper also has a lower percentage of White kids than Langley, so that’s going to be the case going forward as well. |
Anonymous
The latest demographic updates on the school profile are 23-24. So the comment that Langley at 51% is set to become majority minority in a year or two is accurate, if it happened October 24 (24-25 school year.) |
Anonymous
| It’s important to avoid URMs in ES and MS (AAP works well here), but in most FCPS HS, you can find high achieving groups of kids. I wouldn’t want my kid to go to small number of FCPS HS but for the most part it’s not that big of a deal |
Anonymous
+1 former DOD teacher. Some years, the brightest kids were white, some years Black or Hispanic. Taught one first grade Hispanic girl who could speak three languages fluently and translate. (All bilingual kids are not able to freely translate.) Intelligence is not determined by skin color. And, FWIW, the brightest were not necessarily the children of officers. |
Anonymous
Wrong. The latest demographic updates can be found under the "Student Ethnic" tab under "Demographics" on the school profiles. They cover the 2024-25 school year and are updated by FCPS every month. This data shows Langley became majority minority in October 2024 and has remained so since then. |