Rank the Top 10 NoVa High Schools

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Anonymous wrote:Edison already has an academy so if they ever scale back IB in SE Fairfax, Edison shouldn’t be the school that keeps IB. Annandale or Lee are the schools that will need the biggest boost. So does Mount Vernon, but its location is no good.

IB isn't a "boost" -- it's an albatros that allows families to opt out of those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Edison already has an academy so if they ever scale back IB in SE Fairfax, Edison shouldn’t be the school that keeps IB. Annandale or Lee are the schools that will need the biggest boost. So does Mount Vernon, but its location is no good.

IB isn't a "boost" -- it's an albatros that allows families to opt out of those schools.

It is a boost when you have one IB school surrounded by AP schools. Marshall is the best example, having been a beneficiary of pupil placements from Langley, McLean, Madison and Falls Church for years (it is now closed to transfers).

When you cluster five IB schools in the part of the county where the students are least likely to pursue IB, it's a different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Edison already has an academy so if they ever scale back IB in SE Fairfax, Edison shouldn’t be the school that keeps IB. Annandale or Lee are the schools that will need the biggest boost. So does Mount Vernon, but its location is no good.

IB isn't a "boost" -- it's an albatros that allows families to opt out of those schools.

It is a boost when you have one IB school surrounded by AP schools. Marshall is the best example, having been a beneficiary of pupil placements from Langley, McLean, Madison and Falls Church for years (it is now closed to transfers).

When you cluster five IB schools in the part of the county where the students are least likely to pursue IB, it's a different story.

Please stop with the misinformation. It would only be a boost if transfers were only allowed IN. In FCPS transfers used to be allowed both ways, and Marshall's total IN-transfers for curricular placement were always equal to the OUT- curricular transfers (for those seeking AP, i.e. those who "wouldn't be caught dead attending that gang school" ) It was swapping one high SES cohort for another.

I literally don't know what FCPS was thinking with the IB program in the south county high schools cluster - the stronger and larger the program cohort, the more successful the program. With IB in every school but one, it didn't create enough mass anywhere. Anyway, this has been rehashed many times here on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Edison already has an academy so if they ever scale back IB in SE Fairfax, Edison shouldn’t be the school that keeps IB. Annandale or Lee are the schools that will need the biggest boost. So does Mount Vernon, but its location is no good.

IB isn't a "boost" -- it's an albatros that allows families to opt out of those schools.

It is a boost when you have one IB school surrounded by AP schools. Marshall is the best example, having been a beneficiary of pupil placements from Langley, McLean, Madison and Falls Church for years (it is now closed to transfers).

When you cluster five IB schools in the part of the county where the students are least likely to pursue IB, it's a different story.

Please stop with the misinformation. It would only be a boost if transfers were only allowed IN. In FCPS transfers used to be allowed both ways, and Marshall's total IN-transfers for curricular placement were always equal to the OUT- curricular transfers (for those seeking AP, i.e. those who "wouldn't be caught dead attending that gang school" ) It was swapping one high SES cohort for another.

I literally don't know what FCPS was thinking with the IB program in the south county high schools cluster - the stronger and larger the program cohort, the more successful the program. With IB in every school but one, it didn't create enough mass anywhere. Anyway, this has been rehashed many times here on DCUM.

I don't think I shared any misinformation. AP is more popular than IB, but when you have an IB school surrounded by four AP schools (one of which has a poorer student body) the IB school benefits from the pupil placements. When some of those AP schools (McLean and Madison) stopped accepting or capped transfers, the net pupil placements to Marshall increased even more.