FCPS High School prestige ranking

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This obsession with prestige is so old. Just support your kid, and encourage them to take advantage of what their school offers. Great students graduate every year from that bottom tier too.

It’s actually relatively new. High schools in FCPS used to be more or less the same. Not any longer, as much as people would like to claim otherwise.

Lol, I graduated from FCPS years ago, and this is so not true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I believe this ranking is more aligned with what matters to most DCUM posters than OP's.

1. Langley
2. TJ
3. McLean
4. Madison
5. Oakton
6. Woodson
7. Robinson
8. Chantilly
9. West Springfield
10. Lake Braddock
11. Marshall
12. South County
13. Centreville
14. Fairfax
15. Westfield
16. South Lakes
17. Hayfield
18. Edison
19. West Potomac
20. Herndon
21. Lewis
22. Annandale
23. Justice
24. Falls Church
25. Mount Vernon

TJ behind Langley?

That is patently laughable.

TJ's "prestige" is diminished with the admissions changes.

While that is true (TJ is now #14 at USNWR and #12 at Niche), it is still laughable to rank it anywhere near Langley, let alone above.

Compare average SAT scores or merit scholars if you have not seen the light yet.

I think too many equate prestige to HHI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe this ranking is more aligned with what matters to most DCUM posters than OP's.

1. Langley
2. TJ
3. McLean
4. Madison
5. Oakton
6. Woodson
7. Robinson
8. Chantilly
9. West Springfield
10. Lake Braddock
11. Marshall
12. South County
13. Centreville
14. Fairfax
15. Westfield
16. South Lakes
17. Hayfield
18. Edison
19. West Potomac
20. Herndon
21. Lewis
22. Annandale
23. Justice
24. Falls Church
25. Mount Vernon

TJ behind Langley?

That is patently laughable.

TJ's "prestige" is diminished with the admissions changes.

While that is true (TJ is now #14 at USNWR and #12 at Niche), it is still laughable to rank it anywhere near Langley, let alone above.

Compare average SAT scores or merit scholars if you have not seen the light yet.

Prestige can be assessed in different ways, but yours is certainly one common perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe this ranking is more aligned with what matters to most DCUM posters than OP's.

1. Langley
2. TJ
3. McLean
4. Madison
5. Oakton
6. Woodson
7. Robinson
8. Chantilly
9. West Springfield
10. Lake Braddock
11. Marshall
12. South County
13. Centreville
14. Fairfax
15. Westfield
16. South Lakes
17. Hayfield
18. Edison
19. West Potomac
20. Herndon
21. Lewis
22. Annandale
23. Justice
24. Falls Church
25. Mount Vernon

TJ behind Langley?

That is patently laughable.

TJ's "prestige" is diminished with the admissions changes.

While that is true (TJ is now #14 at USNWR and #12 at Niche), it is still laughable to rank it anywhere near Langley, let alone above.

Compare average SAT scores or merit scholars if you have not seen the light yet.

I think too many equate prestige to HHI.

I think too many equate prestige with SAT scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe this ranking is more aligned with what matters to most DCUM posters than OP's.

1. Langley
2. TJ
3. McLean
4. Madison
5. Oakton
6. Woodson
7. Robinson
8. Chantilly
9. West Springfield
10. Lake Braddock
11. Marshall
12. South County
13. Centreville
14. Fairfax
15. Westfield
16. South Lakes
17. Hayfield
18. Edison
19. West Potomac
20. Herndon
21. Lewis
22. Annandale
23. Justice
24. Falls Church
25. Mount Vernon

TJ behind Langley?

That is patently laughable.

TJ's "prestige" is diminished with the admissions changes.

While that is true (TJ is now #14 at USNWR and #12 at Niche), it is still laughable to rank it anywhere near Langley, let alone above.

Compare average SAT scores or merit scholars if you have not seen the light yet.

I think too many equate prestige to HHI.

I think too many equate prestige with SAT scores.

Aren’t SAT scores correlated with HHI? Esp with prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe this ranking is more aligned with what matters to most DCUM posters than OP's.

1. Langley
2. TJ
3. McLean
4. Madison
5. Oakton
6. Woodson
7. Robinson
8. Chantilly
9. West Springfield
10. Lake Braddock
11. Marshall
12. South County
13. Centreville
14. Fairfax
15. Westfield
16. South Lakes
17. Hayfield
18. Edison
19. West Potomac
20. Herndon
21. Lewis
22. Annandale
23. Justice
24. Falls Church
25. Mount Vernon

TJ behind Langley?

That is patently laughable.

TJ's "prestige" is diminished with the admissions changes.

While that is true (TJ is now #14 at USNWR and #12 at Niche), it is still laughable to rank it anywhere near Langley, let alone above.

Compare average SAT scores or merit scholars if you have not seen the light yet.

I think too many equate prestige to HHI.

I equate prestige to high academic achievement. What do you equate it to?

[Anonymous]

Much of this conversation is totally absurd given the fact that many students from “high performing” schools and “low performing” schools are accepted into the same colleges/universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Much of this conversation is totally absurd given the fact that many students from “high performing” schools and “low performing” schools are accepted into the same colleges/universities.

Actually, students from low performing schools seem to have an advantage when applying to competitive colleges and universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of this conversation is totally absurd given the fact that many students from “high performing” schools and “low performing” schools are accepted into the same colleges/universities.

Actually, students from low performing schools seem to have an advantage when applying to competitive colleges and universities.

Yes! that too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This obsession with prestige is so old. Just support your kid, and encourage them to take advantage of what their school offers. Great students graduate every year from that bottom tier too.

It’s actually relatively new. High schools in FCPS used to be more or less the same. Not any longer, as much as people would like to claim otherwise.

Lol, I graduated from FCPS years ago, and this is so not true.

The FCPS schools may have been mostly all Caucasian with the exception of Justice (Jeb Stuart), but as some of the older posters have posted, Falls Church was more working class white, Oakton had a blue collar rural or “country” vibe, etc. So the differences were defined by cultural and income levels, not race so much.

[Anonymous]

They all had AP courses and every school save maybe Stuart and Mt. Vernon had a FR lunch rate under 20% with many in the single digits. ESL rates were very low until the mid 90s. Languages were Spanish, French, German, and Latin. People might not have liked getting
rezoned, but you could be pretty sure the education your kids would get at any FCPS high school was very good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of this conversation is totally absurd given the fact that many students from “high performing” schools and “low performing” schools are accepted into the same colleges/universities.

Actually, students from low performing schools seem to have an advantage when applying to competitive colleges and universities.

Not at all. The bottom feeders mostly send kids to NVCC, GMU, and VCU.

[Anonymous]

If, for some reason, FCPS decided to eliminate school boundaries and gave parents the option of a sending their student to any HS…I believe their selections would mirror the top HS listed as “prestigious.” Lewis, Edison, Annandale, Justice and Herndon would cease to exist.

I’d send my DC to McLean HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of this conversation is totally absurd given the fact that many students from “high performing” schools and “low performing” schools are accepted into the same colleges/universities.

Actually, students from low performing schools seem to have an advantage when applying to competitive colleges and universities.

Not at all. The bottom feeders mostly send kids to NVCC, GMU, and VCU.

They also send students to UVA, Va Tech, William & Mary, Johns Hopkins, Penn, Yale, etc. in numbers greater than one would think. It’s easier for good students to stand out at smaller, lower performing schools, and the students probably have compelling stories that AO’s like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of this conversation is totally absurd given the fact that many students from “high performing” schools and “low performing” schools are accepted into the same colleges/universities.

Actually, students from low performing schools seem to have an advantage when applying to competitive colleges and universities.

Not at all. The bottom feeders mostly send kids to NVCC, GMU, and VCU.

They also send students to UVA, Va Tech, William & Mary, Johns Hopkins, Penn, Yale, etc. in numbers greater than one would think. It’s easier for good students to stand out at smaller, lower performing schools, and the students probably have compelling stories that AO’s like.

The service academies also like these graduates. I know of several kids who are now at the Naval Academy and West Point.