Any feedback on Patrick Henry in Arlington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd try to get in Long Branch. The neighborhoods assigned to Henry are not nice, so of course it's a high poverty school.

. Not true. Neighborhoods are nice, strong community associations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8:49 here. As I said earlier, the FARMS rate is around 40%, not 60% and it is dropping every year. Parental involvement, on the other hand, is growing.
To 6:43, I'm a teacher and I looked at many different schools before we chose to buy a house within the Henry boundary. We didn't apply to any other school. The principal is very open to allowing prospective parents to come in and observe Kindergarten classes and even allows you to request which teacher you want.
Are you Penrose or Arlington Heights?

Confirming this. Other PP is wrong. And parental involvement is strong.

[Anonymous]

Re FARMS %, according to schooldigger.com, it's 47.3%.

http://www.schooldigger.com/go/VA/schools/0027000094/school.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Re FARMS %, according to schooldigger.com, it's 47.3%.

http://www.schooldigger.com/go/VA/schools/0027000094/school.aspx

Id' go with whatever the APS website says. Schooldigger might be out of date.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't this feed into Wakefield? That's the worst high school in NoVa!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Re FARMS %, according to schooldigger.com, it's 47.3%.

http://www.schooldigger.com/go/VA/schools/0027000094/school.aspx

Id' go with whatever the APS website says. Schooldigger might be out of date.

From the APS website for 2012-2013 - 43.78%

http://apsva.us//site/Default.aspx?PageID=1113

[Anonymous]

Habla

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't this feed into Wakefield? That's the worst high school in NoVa!

Lies, lies, lies. All APS schools are good to excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't this feed into Wakefield? That's the worst high school in NoVa!

Lies, lies, lies. All APS schools are good to excellent.

Wakefield is a low performing school by purpose, to make the other Arlington schools look better. It might as well be in Anacostia or Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

I live in Penrose, which is right next to Patrick Henry and across Walter Reed from Arlington Heights. I have lived there for 6 years and have a 3rd-grade student and rising Kindergartener. The neighborhood is awesome and rich in diversity. My kids know and play with children from a variety of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. I feel as if I can walk to many homes at anytime to score a playdate, a beer, or a cup of coffee. For the most part (most part, mind you), the parents and non-parents are genuine and people with whom you want to be friends.

The elementary school is excellent. I don't know why someone would say any different. Sure, the school does serve many more humble families than you will find in North Arlington. But, by no stretch of the facts, has that impacted negatively on my child's life or education. I feel as if the teachers and the principal know me by name and have a genuine interest in my children's elementary experience; not just my third-grader, but my younger child who has yet to sit in class even one day. It just makes me glad that my kids are going there.

I am not going to get into a back-and-forth with the person who continues to knock on the school and the area. I really don't know from where that person is coming. But that person's "truth" -- Well, has not been my experience at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Penrose, which is right next to Patrick Henry and across Walter Reed from Arlington Heights. I have lived there for 6 years and have a 3rd-grade student and rising Kindergartener. The neighborhood is awesome and rich in diversity. My kids know and play with children from a variety of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. I feel as if I can walk to many homes at anytime to score a playdate, a beer, or a cup of coffee. For the most part (most part, mind you), the parents and non-parents are genuine and people with whom you want to be friends.

The elementary school is excellent. I don't know why someone would say any different. Sure, the school does serve many more humble families than you will find in North Arlington. But, by no stretch of the facts, has that impacted negatively on my child's life or education. I feel as if the teachers and the principal know me by name and have a genuine interest in my children's elementary experience; not just my third-grader, but my younger child who has yet to sit in class even one day. It just makes me glad that my kids are going there.

I am not going to get into a back-and-forth with the person who continues to knock on the school and the area. I really don't know from where that person is coming. But that person's "truth" -- Well, has not been my experience at all.

I hear ya. She's just trying to protect her N.Arl property value.

Signed,

A N Arlingtonian who would be more than happy to send her two precious children to any school in the county.

[Anonymous]

Thanks to all the PPs who took the time to write feedback on the school. Very helpful.