Best small(ish) middle schools in FCPS

[Anonymous]

Key Middle gets a bad rap, but my kids liked it and did very well there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP—it’s two years. Your kid will be fine at any middle school. The differences are negligible.

Focus on the things that will impact your kid a lot more: Your presence at home. If you buy a house that you can’t afford or are unhappy with, that will make you stressed out around your kid. Or if you buy a house that results in an awful commute which results in precious time away from your middle schooler, that’s problematic.

No they are not.

You want to avoid Herndon Middle School, Hughes MS, and anything in Annandale. Figure out what high school you would be going to also.

What PP is saying is to stay away from the poors.

Some of these schools are very poor quality. Our neighborhood middle school has 23% of the 6th graders meeting state math standards. They won’t be able to offer much beyond remedial education in such an environment, since they need to teach to where the majority of students are.

[Anonymous]

My kid was happy at Kilmer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid was happy at Kilmer.

Same. Loved the teachers and the activities the school held throughout the year.

[Anonymous]

You have to be looking at the MS/HS combo since MS is only two years.

[Anonymous]

Robinson is great!

[Anonymous]

The smallest middle schools are:

Key (691 students)
Stone (726 students)
Whitman (805 students)
Franklin (819 students)
Poe (877 students)
Herndon (888 students)
Rocky Run (896 students)
Holmes (902 students)
Liberty (919 students)
South County (951 students)
Hayfield (968 students)



The medium sized middle schools are:

Jackson (1000 students)
Hughes (1011 students)
Cooper (1019 students)
Twain (1022 students)
Johnson (1176 students)
Robinson (1205 students)
Kilmer (1212 students)
Irving (1220 students)
Longfellow (1236 students)
Thoreau (1252 students)
Frost (1288 students)



The largest middle schools are:

Glassgow (1664 students)
Lake Braddock (1453 students)
Sandburg (1399 students)
Carson (1351 students)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid was happy at Kilmer.

Same. Loved the teachers and the activities the school held throughout the year.

We had a poor experience with Kilmer and moved so our younger kids wouldn’t have to go there.