Should we leave Alexandria?
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Anonymous
Man, you really need to stop confusing what you hear at The Whitley or whatever other housing project you pass by on your into Old Town with coming from Loudoun, PP. You sound deranged. Anyway, Loudoun is higher income, has higher home values, is nearly exactly as white and as educated as Alexandria. We just have a better lifestyle. And our schools are much better. Loudoun median income: $178,707 Alexandria media income: $113,638 Median value of home (Loudoun): $701,000 Median value of home (Alexandria): $696,800 Foreign born (Loudoun): 26.7% Foreign born (Alexandria): 24.6% Loudoun proportion of white alone, not Hispanic or Latino: 50.4% Alexandria proportion of white alone, not Hispanic or Latino: 49.5% High school education, Loudoun: 94.1% High school education, Alexandria: 92.9% Bachelors degree, Loudoun: 64% Bachelors degree, Alexandria: 65.8% And just to cut you off before you make a straw man argument about commutes: Mean travel time to work (Loudoun): 31.1 minutes Mean travel time to work (Alexandria): 29.3 minutes https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/loudouncountyvirginia,alexandriacityvirginia/COM100223 |
Anonymous
DP and Alexandria resident but you are wrong. The other poster is correct. Median HHI is higher in all of those other places, and by quite a bit. More importantly, you are making Alexandria look bad because you sound crazy and insecure. And you are distracting from other people’s germane questions. |
Anonymous
Can you say a little more about which part of the city you’re in? In bounds school or option/charter? You hear a lot about ACPS vs other nova districts but not as much about ACPS compared to DCPS. |
Anonymous
Here is the data for all of the schools in ACPS: https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/divisions/alexandria-city-public-schools |
Anonymous
You're just never going to get it. ACHS produces much better outcomes for UMC kids than any other school in the area with the exception of TJ, Langley and maaaaaaybe Mclean. If you moved out of ACPS so your kid could attend Edison, South Lakes, Herndon, Chantily, Battlefield, Falls Church, Broad Run or a dozen others, you are a fool. You don't have to like being wrong, but you are. |
Anonymous
I would like to see what percentage of ACHS students get into top schools versus others. Their size is almost twice as big as some of these other schools so it makes sense. They’d be sending more kids to UVA, etc.But as I said elsewhere on this thread, admittance to top college is not the only thing that matters to me the overall school experience is important too. |
Anonymous
There’s no evidence at all that ACHS produces better college acceptance outcomes. The closest you can get is that each year the Alexandria Times publishes all of the schools where students are going. Some years it is better than others. Last year the list was pretty good. I recall a few years ago (the year the kid got stabbed in Bradlee right before graduation), there were only six T20 schools listed. Out of a class of 800 kids, that was pretty bad. Sure, a few of those schools may have had more than one attendee, and a few kids did ED to UVA that could have gotten into a higher ranked school or got in higher but went in-state. But even generous estimates maybe put the number of T20 admittances at 3-5% of the class. Again, last year looked better. It varies from year to year but it isn’t clearly better than most of the top public high schools in the region, and maybe worse. |
Anonymous
Same here, I say this as a professional who interacts with families in different school districts. I would not put my own kids in ACPS. Yes, some are in it and do ok. But too many do not. And that's not to say the other local school districts are without faults either, but they are a huge step up from ACPS. |
Anonymous
I am surprised by the cultural differences between ACPS And APS. Parents in APS complain about everything, loudly and frequently. ACPS feels so much more hush-hush/defensive. |
Anonymous
Families who stay at the public schools in Alexandria are generally happy. They push through and as long as the child doesn't need more it's fine. Many ACPS families get scared like the OP, aren't willing to chance it and send their kid to private. This makes the group of loud, involved parents who go to school board meetings in Alexandria much smaller. But these parents are there at every meeting and they are not hush hush. In Arlington families generally send their children to the public schools and that is why you hear more from them. I disagree with the pp personally don't think things are much different in South Arlington. If I was going to move it would be to North Arlington. |
Anonymous
Which school are you zoned for? |
Anonymous
| Why would you stay?! 100% leave. |
Anonymous
Well, that year, our kid got into a T40 school and will graduate in a few months. Plenty of his cohorts will do so as well from excellent schools. But please do sell and move to the burbs. |
Anonymous
Alexandria is the burbs. Not sure I understand your defensiveness. The point being debated was that ACHS has demonstrably better college acceptances than other schools. That’s not the case, but it doesn’t mean that kids don’t still get into good colleges. They just seem to get into good colleges at a similar or maybe somewhat slightly less frequent rate than other high schools in the region. |
Anonymous
The City of Alexandria is not the burbs. Where do you people come up with this bs? |