Is Western high school going to be sought after?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

No, it is not contagious but people who are buying based on school look at test scores. Western is lkely to have a higher Farms rate then Chantilly. It will be a very good school with excellent programs and offer AP classes. Will it be sought after? Who knows. But we can predict that it’s test scores are likely to be lower then Langley, McLean, Oakton, and Chantilly.

No. We do not KNOW that!

Hence the use of the word predict. But a higher FARMs rates tend to mean lower test scores on average. There is a well documented tie between income and test scores.

The aerospace program sounds great but we don’t know the classes or how many people might want to move to the school for the program. It is not going to be an academy, it is a community school with specialized programing. People won’t be allowed to pupil place in if the school is at capacity.

Western is going to be a good school, like the vast majority of schools in FCOS. It is not going to be like Oakton or even Chantilly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

If your family is doing well. You will be more likely to pay a premium for "good schools" to begin with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

This. But, difficult to understand how the FARMS will be so much higher than the current Carson stats.

First, Carson is an AAP Center that draws in a lot of AAP families from Oak Hill and Navy which lowers the FARMs ate at Carson.

McNair and Coates are high FARMs ES moving to Western. Oak Hill and Floris are lower FARMs schools. Crossfield or Fox Mill are lower FARMs schools as well. But the FARMs rates at McNair and Coates are high enough that you will end up with a higher FARMs rate then you have at Carson.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

If your family is doing well. You will be more likely to pay a premium for "good schools" to begin with.

Sure, that is true. However, I also read about families, that “sacrificed so much” to buy in a “sought after” district, and that is enough of a reason for them not to be forced to move to a “lesser” school. Not all families that are zoned for the premium fcps schools have a lot of extra cash. Their kids would probably do well at any school because their parents value education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

If your family is doing well. You will be more likely to pay a premium for "good schools" to begin with.

Sure, that is true. However, I also read about families, that “sacrificed so much” to buy in a “sought after” district, and that is enough of a reason for them not to be forced to move to a “lesser” school. Not all families that are zoned for the premium fcps schools have a lot of extra cash. Their kids would probably do well at any school because their parents value education.

Families buy where they want their kids to go to school. That’s what the school board heard time and time again at the public meetings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

If your family is doing well. You will be more likely to pay a premium for "good schools" to begin with.

Sure, that is true. However, I also read about families, that “sacrificed so much” to buy in a “sought after” district, and that is enough of a reason for them not to be forced to move to a “lesser” school. Not all families that are zoned for the premium fcps schools have a lot of extra cash. Their kids would probably do well at any school because their parents value education.

Families buy where they want their kids to go to school. That’s what the school board heard time and time again at the public meetings.

Or, where they can afford to buy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

This. But, difficult to understand how the FARMS will be so much higher than the current Carson stats.

First, Carson is an AAP Center that draws in a lot of AAP families from Oak Hill and Navy which lowers the FARMs ate at Carson.

McNair and Coates are high FARMs ES moving to Western. Oak Hill and Floris are lower FARMs schools. Crossfield or Fox Mill are lower FARMs schools as well. But the FARMs rates at McNair and Coates are high enough that you will end up with a higher FARMs rate then you have at Carson.

Some of Coates (mostly very high FARMS area) presently go to Herndon High. They will not be assigned to Western. And, while Coates is still high FARMS, it went down 10 points last year. Likely do to new construction of more expensive townhouses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

If your family is doing well. You will be more likely to pay a premium for "good schools" to begin with.

Sure, that is true. However, I also read about families, that “sacrificed so much” to buy in a “sought after” district, and that is enough of a reason for them not to be forced to move to a “lesser” school. Not all families that are zoned for the premium fcps schools have a lot of extra cash. Their kids would probably do well at any school because their parents value education.

High income schools are more likely to have a large number of students who are planning to attend college. This means there are likely to be more sections of Honors and AP classes because there will be more students who are interested in taking those classes. Other schools have excellent programs but the cohort is a bit smaller, the smaller the cohort, the fewer sections of courses and some courses might not have enough interested students to run. For example Physics C is probably commonly run at Langley, McLean, and Oakton but less frequently at Herndon. More students at Robinson complete the IB diploma than at Lewis or Mount Vernon, with South Lakes being solidly in the middle.

But you can get an excellent education at any of the FCPS schools. Chantilly, Centerville, Westfield, and South Lakes all turn out well educated kids.

[Anonymous]

No it will not sought after because of Coates and McNair feeders. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No it will not sought after because of Coates and McNair feeders. Sorry.

Wow. Classist/racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams.

No, it is not contagious but people who are buying based on school look at test scores. Western is lkely to have a higher Farms rate then Chantilly. It will be a very good school with excellent programs and offer AP classes. Will it be sought after? Who knows. But we can predict that it’s test scores are likely to be lower then Langley, McLean, Oakton, and Chantilly.

I love posts that talk about test scores while not knowing the difference between "its" and "it's."

Anyway, we are Floris/Westfield and our 9th grader decided to go to the new school in anticipation of better STEM classes. We are FARMS this year (due to the shutdown) but won't be next year.

[Anonymous]

The proposed boundaries remove 190 students from Coates and move them to Herndon HS. That should impact Western.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The proposed boundaries remove 190 students from Coates and move them to Herndon HS. That should impact Western.

They already attend Herndon HS. It took them out of Coates and sent them to Herndon Elementary. And, for the classists here, they are mostly FARMS. I think they go to Herndon MS already. They live on the Herndon side of the Toll Road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No it will not sought after because of Coates and McNair feeders. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No it will not sought after because of Coates and McNair feeders. Sorry.

I saw that correction, I wasn’t aware of that. It makes sense.