Aps title 1

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Anonymous wrote:Two neighborhood schools losing their title I funds.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/06/20/two-aps-schools-lose-title-i-designations-while-another-joins-the-list/

As a former abingdon parent that is not good, the schools is massive and needs all the help it can get.

How can a CEP school drop out of Title I in one school year? And why does Hoffman Boston get kicked off (43.02% Free and Reduced Meals) while ATS gets more support? (35.26% FARM)

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf

ATS is going downhill and they need more resources to fix it. Letting it fail would be too embarrassing.

The school report card is posted on their website every single year. Please compare all of the report cards and report back if you see a trend in ATS going downhill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two neighborhood schools losing their title I funds.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/06/20/two-aps-schools-lose-title-i-designations-while-another-joins-the-list/

As a former abingdon parent that is not good, the schools is massive and needs all the help it can get.

How can a CEP school drop out of Title I in one school year? And why does Hoffman Boston get kicked off (43.02% Free and Reduced Meals) while ATS gets more support? (35.26% FARM)

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf

ATS is going downhill and they need more resources to fix it. Letting it fail would be too embarrassing.

The school report card is posted on their website every single year. Please compare all of the report cards and report back if you see a trend in ATS going downhill.

Isn't ATS the elemenatry school that was ranked 1st or 2nd in in VA for public elemntary schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two neighborhood schools losing their title I funds.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/06/20/two-aps-schools-lose-title-i-designations-while-another-joins-the-list/

As a former abingdon parent that is not good, the schools is massive and needs all the help it can get.

How can a CEP school drop out of Title I in one school year? And why does Hoffman Boston get kicked off (43.02% Free and Reduced Meals) while ATS gets more support? (35.26% FARM)

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf

ATS is going downhill and they need more resources to fix it. Letting it fail would be too embarrassing.

The school report card is posted on their website every single year. Please compare all of the report cards and report back if you see a trend in ATS going downhill.

Isn't ATS the elemenatry school that was ranked 1st or 2nd in in VA for public elemntary schools?

It is. But person I am responding to is excited and thinks that ATS is going downhill. So he/she can check ATS’ report card. All the information is out there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ATS is title 1 now???????

I found this thread today and I saw no evidence that ATS is now Title I.

As an ATS family, I don't think that would dissuade us or most of our cohort from attending. It's a diverse school (we're a mixed race family) where my kids have friends of varying backgrounds they wouldn't have met at our S Arlington school (they'd be grouped into the 2E Gifted school w/in school group, which is mostly wealthy white kids). If APS wants to make ATs Title I and add it to the CEP group, so much the better. Smaller classes AND free breakfast/lunch? Awesome.

Don’t forget you also get to pick 10 free books mailed to you every year.

Yep. We got 20 free books since I have two kids there. My girls loved picking the books and even picked a few books for my three year old. This is a free program run by a nonprofit in case some of you out there freak out and think that we are getting free books from your tax dollars. The nice thing about ATS is we have great teachers and admin. So they find these programs for the school.

My kids also loved picking out books. Keeps asking when they will arrive.

Almost 20 books/chapters into their summer reading challenges so they’ll get used.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ATS is successful because of the immigrant families there. They want homework and good behavior. They show up to school on the first day with flowers for the teachers and dress to the nines for every event. They expect their kids to be successful.

Yes this is why income doesn’t matter at ATS. Immigrant families push their kids to the max. The people at ATS who keep complaining about too much homework and the uniform are the high income white parents. As a high income immigrant family, I wish there were less of these around. In my opinion and the opinion of many immigrant families no matter the income, ATS is actually too easy. They need to push kids even more. Uniforms would be great too. The only ppl against uniforms in ATS are the higher income white families.

There is no uniform at ATS; kids tuck their shirts in. As an ATS family, I have never heard anyone talk about uniforms, but we are not a HHI immigrant family, but a mixed race mid income family. Sure uniforms are fine, but American public uniforms are just polos and khakis, are mostly used by problematic public schools. I've just never heard anyone talk about getting them. I do agree we could have more homework.

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Anonymous wrote:ATS parent. Some of you don't know anything about ATS and it shows.

I've never met a really wealthy parent at ATS. There are alot of immigrants families. Asian, South Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, African. White families are in the minority.

ATS has two bilingual family specialists. The one who's been there the longest speaks Spanish.

PP is right about the immigrant families taking school very seriously. Almost the entire school turns out for school events. Low-income families are very involved.

Admin expects parent involvement and and does not coddle parents.

This is not true.

It is true. Pull up the report card. It’s a majority minority school. If you are talking about white families being the majority ethnic group that’s different. This is Arlington. White families make up 32%, Black 20%, Hispanics 11%, Asians 30% and other 10%. These are approximations. You can pull up the report card for more details

And that's why we love it. After all the DCUM stories about sending non-white non-Asian kids to north Arlington schools, I was happy to get our sin ATS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ATS is title 1 now???????

I found this thread today and I saw no evidence that ATS is now Title I.

As an ATS family, I don't think that would dissuade us or most of our cohort from attending. It's a diverse school (we're a mixed race family) where my kids have friends of varying backgrounds they wouldn't have met at our S Arlington school (they'd be grouped into the 2E Gifted school w/in school group, which is mostly wealthy white kids). If APS wants to make ATs Title I and add it to the CEP group, so much the better. Smaller classes AND free breakfast/lunch? Awesome.

Don’t forget you also get to pick 10 free books mailed to you every year.

Yep. We got 20 free books since I have two kids there. My girls loved picking the books and even picked a few books for my three year old. This is a free program run by a nonprofit in case some of you out there freak out and think that we are getting free books from your tax dollars. The nice thing about ATS is we have great teachers and admin. So they find these programs for the school.

My kids also loved picking out books. Keeps asking when they will arrive.

Almost 20 books/chapters into their summer reading challenges so they’ll get used.

Ours too. Love free books.

[Anonymous]

I'm the one who just posted 3 times in a row, apologies.

I have been surprised by all the haters over the years. As someone who lives south of Rt 50, I thought we were pretty lucky to get into ATS. This is after meeting families through county programs who would actually gasp when we said we lived south of 50 and through sports where north Arlington parents pretended they had never heard of ATS, but then would never speak to us again at sports. Or the time when someone's nanny was shocked we lived where she did, as if Columbia Pike is like SE DC (no offense)!

Our neighbors who have moved in over the years with school age kids always go through the same cycle: they know nothing about APS, then find out about ATS, then find out we go, then we don't really ever talk. They just look at us like we betrayed them. It happens a lot with people building these new giant houses among our collection of Arlington sh*t-shacks.

Our neighbors who go to the neighborhood school all really like it and that's a great community. It's one of the CEP schools and the HHI families still go there and love it. I think you can find good communities in every Arlington school. I wish there were more ATS schools, but from what I have heard/read, most of the things that ATS has are at other schools too. It just has homework and diversity. I wouldn't trade out, but I don't get the hate. FWIW, we ATS parents don't really talk about it, I only ever hear it from non-ATS people.

[Anonymous]

I think its really gross for a wealthy arlington family to take free books from a nonprofit. Those are for poor kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ATS is title 1 now???????

I found this thread today and I saw no evidence that ATS is now Title I.

As an ATS family, I don't think that would dissuade us or most of our cohort from attending. It's a diverse school (we're a mixed race family) where my kids have friends of varying backgrounds they wouldn't have met at our S Arlington school (they'd be grouped into the 2E Gifted school w/in school group, which is mostly wealthy white kids). If APS wants to make ATs Title I and add it to the CEP group, so much the better. Smaller classes AND free breakfast/lunch? Awesome.

Don’t forget you also get to pick 10 free books mailed to you every year.

Yep. We got 20 free books since I have two kids there. My girls loved picking the books and even picked a few books for my three year old. This is a free program run by a nonprofit in case some of you out there freak out and think that we are getting free books from your tax dollars. The nice thing about ATS is we have great teachers and admin. So they find these programs for the school.

My kids also loved picking out books. Keeps asking when they will arrive.

Almost 20 books/chapters into their summer reading challenges so they’ll get used.

Ours too. Love free books.

Same here! We are looking forward to the delivery of the books!

[Anonymous]

Wish we would have gotten into ATS. Now they will have even more resources and will continue to thrive.

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Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.

Yep. They are just seething with jealously. Just an FYI - majority of the Asians in the school are Mongolian and almost all come from the VPI program. Same with the Ethiopians/Eritrians. So please don’t use the successful rich minority card.

We also have a lot of Mongolian and Ethiopian families at our school (not ATS). I think their number 1 complaint about the school is the the no homework policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think its really gross for a wealthy arlington family to take free books from a nonprofit. Those are for poor kids.

I find your post to be gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two neighborhood schools losing their title I funds.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/06/20/two-aps-schools-lose-title-i-designations-while-another-joins-the-list/

As a former abingdon parent that is not good, the schools is massive and needs all the help it can get.

How can a CEP school drop out of Title I in one school year? And why does Hoffman Boston get kicked off (43.02% Free and Reduced Meals) while ATS gets more support? (35.26% FARM)

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf

ATS is going downhill and they need more resources to fix it. Letting it fail would be too embarrassing.

The school report card is posted on their website every single year. Please compare all of the report cards and report back if you see a trend in ATS going downhill.

Isn't ATS the elemenatry school that was ranked 1st or 2nd in in VA for public elemntary schools?

Racial diversity is a major criterion in these rankings. Better performing schools that lack diversity are ranked lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the one who just posted 3 times in a row, apologies.

I have been surprised by all the haters over the years. As someone who lives south of Rt 50, I thought we were pretty lucky to get into ATS. This is after meeting families through county programs who would actually gasp when we said we lived south of 50 and through sports where north Arlington parents pretended they had never heard of ATS, but then would never speak to us again at sports. Or the time when someone's nanny was shocked we lived where she did, as if Columbia Pike is like SE DC (no offense)!

Our neighbors who have moved in over the years with school age kids always go through the same cycle: they know nothing about APS, then find out about ATS, then find out we go, then we don't really ever talk. They just look at us like we betrayed them. It happens a lot with people building these new giant houses among our collection of Arlington sh*t-shacks.

Our neighbors who go to the neighborhood school all really like it and that's a great community. It's one of the CEP schools and the HHI families still go there and love it. I think you can find good communities in every Arlington school. I wish there were more ATS schools, but from what I have heard/read, most of the things that ATS has are at other schools too. It just has homework and diversity. I wouldn't trade out, but I don't get the hate. FWIW, we ATS parents don't really talk about it, I only ever hear it from non-ATS people.

lol. In my neighborhood, the ATS wear their blue/yellow ATS shirts with pride to the neighborhood park!

Like, dude, you’re 40. And your kid got in through a lottery, not because they demonstrated talent 🙃