S/O FCPS Per Pupil Spending at High Schools
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Anonymous
They may not have CSS but all of the other schools besides Oakton have other special education programs. |
Anonymous
Life isn’t fair. You can move away if you’d like. |
Anonymous
Why exactly do the RIO mommies want to stay at Oakton? |
Anonymous
Yes, absolutely, let's MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Go back to Europe, immigrant. |
Anonymous
| Love how these posts bring out the MAGA psychos. |
Anonymous
Langley, McLean, and Oakton don’t have high numbers of ELL or specialized SPED programs, like CSS so the money that they get goes to more of the students instead of being focused on ELL and high need SPED students. They like it that way. |
Anonymous
It's more like FCPS likes to shortchange these schools whenever it has a chance. |
Anonymous
I would cut the central office staff ("Gatehouse") first. I'd keep all the money spent on actual teachers, actual instruction and on school buses at all schools. |
Anonymous
| Economy of scale means smaller schools need more money per student to provide the same services to each student. Thus, it may be that Skyview ends up with higher $/student for the first 2-3 years. |
Anonymous
What a strange question. |
Anonymous
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Sad, but honestly not surprising anymore.
Look at the numbers. McLean at 16,934. Langley at 16,881. Oakton at 16,676. Among the lowest per pupil funding levels in the county. Meanwhile, many homeowners in these districts are paying 25,000 to 35,000 dollars per year in real estate taxes alone. And that is just one category. Add the county meals tax, personal property tax on vehicles, car registration fees, stormwater fees, dog license fees, recordation taxes, plus state income and sales taxes. The overall tax burden here is substantial. Yet the areas contributing some of the highest property tax revenue per household are near the bottom in per student school spending. We keep hearing that schools with higher poverty rates or academy programs receive more funding. But logically, that means families in certain districts are effectively subsidizing others while receiving less direct investment in their own schools. Whether one supports redistribution or not, it should at least be openly acknowledged and justified, not brushed aside as automatic or inevitable. The gap is not minor. Some schools receive more than 3,000 dollars per student above McLean or Langley. Even Madison and Woodson are over 1,000 dollars higher. That is a meaningful difference. Taxes continue to rise. Many residents feel county services are not improving proportionally. Infrastructure concerns, snow removal issues, uneven services, and now visible disparities in school funding. This is exactly why people are leaving for lower tax states and counties. They would rather pay lower overall taxes and choose private schools or private services directly, where they believe they have more control and clearer value. Agree or disagree, that migration trend is real and it is not happening by accident. |
Anonymous
+1 So much ignorance. |
Anonymous
And there is more moeny spent on thsoe SPED students. CSS type programs require smaller classes, specialized adults to support kids, and other programing needs that cost more money. It is a significant step up from team taught classes, Resource Support, and the other type of interventions that most IEPs and 504s call for in HS. High performing schools with smaller FARMs numbers and fewer ELL tend not to have the pupils who have issues that get extra State and Federal funding to help manage those issues. The kids don’t need specialized interventions to be able to attend school, never mind stay on grade level, never mind excel. The reasons your don’t want to move to Herndon or Lewis are the reasons they get more money. You are already at a school that offers more AP classes and more clubs and more sports. Your kids don’t need the same type of support, they are less expensive for schools. Honestly, you should be happy that your kids don’t need those funds. They are getting high grades, have better class selection, and better opportunities. |
Anonymous
No, it’s that the kids at those schools don’t need specialized programs with additional adults to help them learn. Instead they have more AP classes offered, fewer in class disruptions, and fewer issues caused by poverty, learning issues, and emotional dysregulation. |
Anonymous
All this money and the education in most high schools is horrible. Most parents I know have tutors to make sure their child is actually learning. |