US News 2021 Virginia High School Rankings (FCPS)

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Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

Entire state. Not country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ is also the #1 school in the nation.

Once again, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been named the No. 1 high school in the U.S.

https://wtop.com/local/2021/04/several-local-high-schools-rank-as-some-of-the-best-in-the-nation/

Also the number 1 school among all magnet schools:

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA

Fairfax County Public Schools

#1 in Magnet Rankings
#1 in National Rankings

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is ranked first within Virginia. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

It shouldn't be.

The focus on these artificial hierarchies and reifying them with our attention and emotional energy is a major part of the problem in our western patriarchal capitalist construct.

We need to embrace students and communities wherever and whoever they are without defining them according to how they are ranked in a publication owned by a far off billionaire. Their value is not found on a list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

It shouldn't be.

The focus on these artificial hierarchies and reifying them with our attention and emotional energy is a major part of the problem in our western patriarchal capitalist construct.

We need to embrace students and communities wherever and whoever they are without defining them according to how they are ranked in a publication owned by a far off billionaire. Their value is not found on a list.

Viva la revolucion, baby.

Well, by the time TJ's ratings decline due to FCPS's repudiation of merit-based admissions in favor of soft quotas, it will probably be Angela Davis HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

It shouldn't be.

The focus on these artificial hierarchies and reifying them with our attention and emotional energy is a major part of the problem in our western patriarchal capitalist construct.

We need to embrace students and communities wherever and whoever they are without defining them according to how they are ranked in a publication owned by a far off billionaire. Their value is not found on a list.

It's a positive feedback loop.

The more the wealthy areas are "highly ranked", the more the wealthy people will segregate themselves into those wealthy areas.

[Anonymous]

US News rankings are trash. TJ is a great school, but it’s not without problems. The rest of these are good too. This is a highly educated, well to do area that is going to have kids who succeed, no matter what the school system does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

It shouldn't be.

The focus on these artificial hierarchies and reifying them with our attention and emotional energy is a major part of the problem in our western patriarchal capitalist construct.

We need to embrace students and communities wherever and whoever they are without defining them according to how they are ranked in a publication owned by a far off billionaire. Their value is not found on a list.

It's a positive feedback loop.

The more the wealthy areas are "highly ranked", the more the wealthy people will segregate themselves into those wealthy areas.

How those with more material wealth (real wealth is not measured by bank accounts and credit scores) make their decisions on where they should live is not a reflection on the inherent worth of the people who live in and around our various school communities.

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The DC rankings have Wilson behind Cardozo. So much for credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:US News rankings are trash. TJ is a great school, but it’s not without problems. The rest of these are good too. This is a highly educated, well to do area that is going to have kids who succeed, no matter what the school system does.

They do a better job than anyone else when it comes to a balanced approach to assessing the academic success of students at public schools.

I mean, have fun at Mount Vernon if you want, but it's telling that FCPS is spending tens of millions at West Potomac so no more students have to go to Mount Vernon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ is also the #1 school in the nation.

Once again, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been named the No. 1 high school in the U.S.

https://wtop.com/local/2021/04/several-local-high-schools-rank-as-some-of-the-best-in-the-nation/

Shocker. A highly-selective-entry school in one of the richest, most educated areas of the country is first. What a come-from-behind win. I'm sure TJ would hold onto that top position if they were required to serve a geographic boundary population.

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Anonymous wrote:So many IB schools at the bottom.

Isn’t Marshall IB?

Robinson is IB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

Sure, because FCPS earns that status because it's got a well-off, well-educated parent population who will help their kid succeed and provide resources when the school fails to do so. It's not because FCPS itself provides a good education for every kid. My public HS, which only made the top 100 schools in Virginia and top 2000 schools in the country, did a far better job addressing the needs of average and struggling learners than FCPS does (and had much better diversity stats than the top FCPS schools, too).

We live in one of the top-10 high school districts, and FCPS has been great for our very smart and academically-engaged child. It has been absolutely miserable for our child who need more support, and we ended up pulling them from our highly-ranked elementary school for three very expensive years of private because the ES would not do more than the bare minimum for any kid not in the AAP program. And the kid is smart and does not have learning disabilities - we've had multiple rounds of psychoeducational testing done over the years, we have shared with their case manager over the years what strategies are most successful, and we pay quite a bit for medical care out outside support (executive function coaching and math tutoring) because FCPS does not cut it alone. If your child is not failing (and they will adjust grading/expectations so they are not), FCPS considers that a FAPE win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ is also the #1 school in the nation.

Once again, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been named the No. 1 high school in the U.S.

https://wtop.com/local/2021/04/several-local-high-schools-rank-as-some-of-the-best-in-the-nation/

Shocker. A highly-selective-entry school in one of the richest, most educated areas of the country is first. What a come-from-behind win. I'm sure TJ would hold onto that top position if they were required to serve a geographic boundary population.

It's impressive that FCPS has not only TJ, but also 9 of the top 10 in the state, even when the feeder middle schools to several of those schools (particularly Oakton, McLean, Langley, and Chantilly) send so many kids to TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:So many IB schools at the bottom.

Ummm, if you can’t see that it’s about socio-economics, you’re not very bright. It’s segregation 2021.

Exactly. It is segregation plain and simple.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many IB schools at the bottom.

Ummm, if you can’t see that it’s about socio-economics, you’re not very bright. It’s segregation 2021.

Exactly. It is segregation plain and simple.

DP, but not quite. FCPS ought to take a look at whether IB has turned out to be a net negative at the lower-ranked schools, but it never admits failure so it won't conduct a retrospective review like any well-managed business would. Instead, the most they've done to acknowledge that maybe it hasn't worked out as planned is to stop converting AP high/secondary schools to IB and opening the newer high schools (Westfield, South County) as AP schools.