Arlington public school overcrowding?

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lotsa ethnic Mongolian kids at ASFS i heard

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Anonymous wrote:lotsa ethnic Mongolian kids at ASFS i heard

Even the Mongolians are blonde by third grade. It's the craziest thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi,

We live around the corner from Wakefield, and my child will start K in the fall... just wanted to say that I have worried about the school options in south arlington but am finding that most of my worries are not true. First, in Arlington there is school choice-- for example, we have 5 elementary schools to choose from. Second, if my child goes to Claremont (spanish immersion) he would then have the option of going to 2 different middle schools. Finally, for HS, yes he might go to Wakefield (which BTW is really a decent school, and a new one is being built soon) but also the option of the IB program at W-L; HB Woodlawn, which is amazing; Thomas Jefferson HS (top in the country)... there are just alot of options. Also, we have a 4 bedroom 4 bath home that we bought for about $300K less than we would have in North Arlington. We love our neighbors too. Just my 2 cents!

I second this as a N Arlington parent with a child at Claremont. Wakefield is a good solid school right now, as are both W-L and Yorktown (we're zoned for Yorktown and, while I'm glad about that in terms of real estate value, I really don't know if Yorktown will be so great for our child -- there are so many variables with kids).

The Arlington schools really are good to excellent across the board and it drives me a bit crazy to see people bashing/fretting about those Arlington schools with greater diversity. We're glad Arlington has school choice and our child is not at our neighborhood N. Arlington school where the kids seemingly aren't just almost exclusively white, but actually overwhelmingly blond as well, LOL (not that there's anything wrong with blond-haired people). In retrospect, if we were to do it over again, we'd have lived in a more diverse part of Arlington.

This is so funny, because I always notice this when I am out at any of the various playgrounds in N. Arlington! Isn't natural blonde hair something like 10% of the population and yet it seems like more than half of the kids I see around N. Arlington have blonde hair and blue eyes. This is true in my son's preschool class as well.

Anyway, I do think that school choice will become less and less of an option as schools get more crowded with their own neighborhood kids, so I wouldn't count on all these choices always being available. But we'll see.....

wait until you actually see the classes. There is a huge diversity. My kids happen to be blonde...don't blame it on me...I am an olive-skinned dark brunette. Though-- I just took a tour of my son's elementary school (he enters K next year) and there is huge diversity. This is arlington science focus. Many, nay nationalites from all across the world. The classes aren't very blonde.

I was the one who made the blond comment - I was referrring specifically to Nottingham, Tuckahoe, Jamestown, and Taylor

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The "choice" schools (choice as in you have to apply through a lottery) like Science Focus in Arlington are indeed more diverse.

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Science focus is no longer a choice school. You can now only go there if you are in boundary. The only schools you can go to out of bounds now are the lotto schools. You can no longer transfer to any school. All are expected to be over crowded in next few years per kindergarten info night.