2025 - TJ Admission Results Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48
Cooper Middle School - 25
Frost Middle School - 19
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14
Kilmer Middle School - 13
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17
Longfellow Middle School - 48
Rocky Run Middle School - 22

Wow Kilmer did not do well at all this year! Wonder what the reason can be. They sent 35 last year and 30 the year before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like an average year for Carson which sent 47, 38, and then 48 kids in the last 3 years

... and a really good year for Longfellow sending 30, 40 and now 48 kids...

Cooper numbers are 16, 24 and 25 for the last 3 years.

Maybe less at Cooper apply to TJ bc they feed into Langley/great school. Carson feeds into Oakton (maybe they have option for IB elsewhere but assume most if not all STEM kids with accelerated math pick Oakton/AP since it rates high and has college placement success).

There are Navy kids that don't apply to TJ and go to Oakton instead.

[Anonymous]

Before the admissions changes they used to give the number of students applying % and the number of students accepted and the % from each race:

This is from 2020 admissions
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

It would be interesting to see how many kids applied from each category and then were accepted and the percentages for 2029.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48 (+10 change from Class of 2028 offers)
Cooper Middle School - 25 (+1)
Frost Middle School - 19 (-12)
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14 (-1)
Kilmer Middle School - 13 (-22)
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17 (+3)
Longfellow Middle School - 48 (+8)
Rocky Run Middle School - 22 (+3)

change from Class of 2028 offers in parenthesis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before the admissions changes they used to give the number of students applying % and the number of students accepted and the % from each race:

This is from 2020 admissions
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

It would be interesting to see how many kids applied from each category and then were accepted and the percentages for 2029.

Revealing that would show that the Asian American students acceptance rate is the lowest compared to other race groups. That would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48 (+10 change from Class of 2028 offers)
Cooper Middle School - 25 (+1)
Frost Middle School - 19 (-12)
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14 (-1)
Kilmer Middle School - 13 (-22)
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17 (+3)
Longfellow Middle School - 48 (+8)
Rocky Run Middle School - 22 (+3)

change from Class of 2028 offers in parenthesis

Carson continues to impress, as the only school standing "on par" with Longfellow, when Cooper usually holds that spot in the urban myth...

[Anonymous]

Is this batch of admissions decided by the 1.5% quote on each middle school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48 (+10 change from Class of 2028 offers)
Cooper Middle School - 25 (+1)
Frost Middle School - 19 (-12)
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14 (-1)
Kilmer Middle School - 13 (-22)
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17 (+3)
Longfellow Middle School - 48 (+8)
Rocky Run Middle School - 22 (+3)

change from Class of 2028 offers in parenthesis

Carson continues to impress, as the only school standing "on par" with Longfellow, when Cooper usually holds that spot in the urban myth...

Carson has 709 8th graders and pulls students from other middle schools for AAP. Cooper has 518 8th graders and only has AAP students in the Langley Pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48
Cooper Middle School - 25
Frost Middle School - 19
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14
Kilmer Middle School - 13
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17
Longfellow Middle School - 48
Rocky Run Middle School - 22

When does FCPS report what math breakdown is? Have seen charts for prior classes saying what % coming in with algebra v geometry v alg2

If FCPS were to report this explicitly, that would just open the floodgates to further criticize the current non-merit admissions criteria. The percentage breakdown shared here is based on analyses by data science experts on this forum, using publicly available previous year’s SOL participant counts for each of those courses.

Some posters also just make up random “data” to support their narrative.

[Anonymous]

How many 8th graders at Longfellow (and wondering how many of those in geometry or above math class)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many 8th graders at Longfellow (and wondering how many of those in geometry or above math class)

632 8th graders at Longfellow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before the admissions changes they used to give the number of students applying % and the number of students accepted and the % from each race:

This is from 2020 admissions
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

It would be interesting to see how many kids applied from each category and then were accepted and the percentages for 2029.

Revealing that would show that the Asian American students acceptance rate is the lowest compared to other race groups. That would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

Huh?

Asian students have the highest acceptance rate. Even after the change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before the admissions changes they used to give the number of students applying % and the number of students accepted and the % from each race:

This is from 2020 admissions
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

It would be interesting to see how many kids applied from each category and then were accepted and the percentages for 2029.

Revealing that would show that the Asian American students acceptance rate is the lowest compared to other race groups. That would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

Huh?

Asian students have the highest acceptance rate. Even after the change.

No. Asians are the group with the largest amount of admission offers and acceptances. But because an overwhelming % of Asian families apply the school would end up like 90% Asian if it tried to match the percentage accepted out of the % applied for each race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before the admissions changes they used to give the number of students applying % and the number of students accepted and the % from each race:

This is from 2020 admissions
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

It would be interesting to see how many kids applied from each category and then were accepted and the percentages for 2029.

Revealing that would show that the Asian American students acceptance rate is the lowest compared to other race groups. That would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

Huh?

Asian students have the highest acceptance rate. Even after the change.

No. Asians are the group with the largest amount of admission offers and acceptances. But because an overwhelming % of Asian families apply the school would end up like 90% Asian if it tried to match the percentage accepted out of the % applied for each race.

We have actual data from the class of 2025.

Asian students had a higher acceptance rate than almost all other groups, aside from Hispanic students.

Hispanic 21%
Asian 19%
ALL 18%
White 17%
Black 14%
Multiracial/Other* 13%

[Anonymous]

Do these large groups of students from schools make it hard for a kid coming from a school without those numbers make it hard to make friends?