Elementary school with a large Arab population

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Anonymous wrote:Freedom Hill ES has a very diverse international population with a sizable group of kids from the middle east to far east.

I would second Freedom Hill. A lot of diplomatic families from the middle east, reside in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Freedom Hill ES has a very diverse international population with a sizable group of kids from the middle east to far east.

I would second Freedom Hill. A lot of diplomatic families from the middle east, reside in the area.

Not really, although there are a bunch of IT guys from the middle east who work in Tysons

[Anonymous]

Welcome, OP! Have you lived in the U.S. before? I think you'll find that Northern Virginia is very, very diverse, and your kids will be welcome in any of our schools. I hope you like it here.

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Our Lebanese child attends Shrevewood.

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Freedom Hill ES has a very diverse international population with a sizable group of kids from the middle east to far east.

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I would second Freedom Hill. A lot of diplomatic families from the middle east, reside in the area.

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Not really, although there are a bunch of IT guys from the middle east who work in Tysons

Yes, really...at least 5 kids in my daughters class have come and gone in the last 3 years (not grade, just her class) ...+ a number of gov'ts owned homes in the immediate area around the school...World Bank folks too.

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Anonymous wrote:Not so many Arabs, but Long Branch in Arlington has always been good about accommodating different traditions and there are Muslims there.

No all arabs are Muslim, many christian arabs come to the states to escape islamic persecution

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Anonymous wrote:Hello,
We are looking to buy a house close to Tysons. I would like my kids to attend a school with a large percentage of Arab kids (we are from Lebanon).

What elementary schools should we look at? My husband will be working in Mclean so we would like to stay close to that area.

Thanks!

Spring Hill ES

Seconded. We are Asian and our kids attend Spring Hill. I was thumbing through their yearbooks and see a lot of middle eastern looking faces. I am not familiar with middle eastern names so I can't tell if they are Arabic or not, but it was like a lot. I also thought it was cute that many of them not only specified being doctors for what they want to grow up to be, but most specified a specialization.

Anyway, Fairfax County Public Schools tracks the very thing you are after, OP. Here they provide maps of elementary school kids based on their language spoken at home and where they live:

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demogrph/languagemaps.htm

Looking at the maps now, it seems maybe the middle eastern kids I noticed are mostly Iranian perhaps? Makes sense, I have a very close Iranian friend who lived in this area when his kids were going through the schools.

Spring Hill ES has a yearbook where the kids say what they want to be when they grow up? Kids at my school are figuratively just learning to run and jump.

Now you know why the best FCPS elementary schools are different.

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Anonymous wrote:Hello,
We are looking to buy a house close to Tysons. I would like my kids to attend a school with a large percentage of Arab kids (we are from Lebanon).

What elementary schools should we look at? My husband will be working in Mclean so we would like to stay close to that area.

Thanks!

Spring Hill ES

Seconded. We are Asian and our kids attend Spring Hill. I was thumbing through their yearbooks and see a lot of middle eastern looking faces. I am not familiar with middle eastern names so I can't tell if they are Arabic or not, but it was like a lot. I also thought it was cute that many of them not only specified being doctors for what they want to grow up to be, but most specified a specialization.

Anyway, Fairfax County Public Schools tracks the very thing you are after, OP. Here they provide maps of elementary school kids based on their language spoken at home and where they live:

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demogrph/languagemaps.htm

Looking at the maps now, it seems maybe the middle eastern kids I noticed are mostly Iranian perhaps? Makes sense, I have a very close Iranian friend who lived in this area when his kids were going through the schools.

Spring Hill ES has a yearbook where the kids say what they want to be when they grow up? Kids at my school are figuratively just learning to run and jump.

Now you know why the best FCPS elementary schools are different.

Don't be so smug, it is unbecoming.

My kids (and their classmates) also do a 'what do you want to be when you grow up' items, but they're not printed in the elementary school yearbook. The majority invariably say "teacher" - admittedly they're not 6th graders, but 3rd graders - as one of their multiple career goals. If the kids don't write down teacher at some point during ES, then consider moving to a more nurturing ES.

[Anonymous]

OP, I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I think if you find a school that has a lot of diversity, it's probably as good or better than finding a school that has a high proportion of Arab kids. A truly diverse school -- that is a true mixture of kids from different countries and cultures will be nonchalant about your kids' culture b/c they have seen it all. I think that is a really good thing.

I have one at Springfield Estates. There are kids who wear headscarves (not a lot of them), but it is totally a non issue. They have books in Urdu and other languages for all the kids who come there not speaking a lick of English. They have international night. B/c they are diverse in having kids from spanish speaking countries, asian countries, european countries, etc., they just roll with the flow of whatever your culture is. And, they do a great job with their test scores (note that the non AAP part of the school does well too -- not just the AAP part).

There is not a sense of "us vs. them" -- it's truly "diverse." Maybe you could check that out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I think if you find a school that has a lot of diversity, it's probably as good or better than finding a school that has a high proportion of Arab kids. A truly diverse school -- that is a true mixture of kids from different countries and cultures will be nonchalant about your kids' culture b/c they have seen it all. I think that is a really good thing.

I have one at Springfield Estates. There are kids who wear headscarves (not a lot of them), but it is totally a non issue. They have books in Urdu and other languages for all the kids who come there not speaking a lick of English. They have international night. B/c they are diverse in having kids from spanish speaking countries, asian countries, european countries, etc., they just roll with the flow of whatever your culture is. And, they do a great job with their test scores (note that the non AAP part of the school does well too -- not just the AAP part).

There is not a sense of "us vs. them" -- it's truly "diverse." Maybe you could check that out.

Unfortunately, Springfield won't put OP very close to Tysons/McLean.

[Anonymous]

Great falls elementary has lots of arab origin kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of kids from Middle East and Persia at Randolph ES.

Persians are not Arab and they don't speak Arabic. Just saying

[Anonymous]

Probably Lemon Road. a close by preschool is heavily arab, and i think the newsletter comes in arabic. any lemon rd moms?

[Anonymous]

this arabic language map by elementary school is very interesting

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demogrph/langmaps/elemsch-arabic.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great falls elementary has lots of arab origin kids.

Are Arab children counted as white for demographic purposes.