How is Oakton high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very child specific high school. Very big school, overcrowded despite renovation. As long as your student has a specific group they will be ok. Competetive sport teams so "good" may not be good enough. The school values the brightest students so AP has morre seasoned capable staff. Gen ed not so much. Madison is a much better school.

Madison shill. Madison is not “much better” by any metric

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very child specific high school. Very big school, overcrowded despite renovation. As long as your student has a specific group they will be ok. Competetive sport teams so "good" may not be good enough. The school values the brightest students so AP has morre seasoned capable staff. Gen ed not so much. Madison is a much better school.

Madison shill. Madison is not “much better” by any metric

DP, but there's a lot to be said for having fewer students and a stronger sense of community. Vienna is a real place; Oakton is basically a zip code.

Does that make Madison "much better"? Maybe not. It probably does make it more attractive to people considering where to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very child specific high school. Very big school, overcrowded despite renovation. As long as your student has a specific group they will be ok. Competetive sport teams so "good" may not be good enough. The school values the brightest students so AP has morre seasoned capable staff. Gen ed not so much. Madison is a much better school.

Madison shill. Madison is not “much better” by any metric

DP, but there's a lot to be said for having fewer students and a stronger sense of community. Vienna is a real place; Oakton is basically a zip code.

Does that make Madison "much better"? Maybe not. It probably does make it more attractive to people considering where to live.

Many neighborhoods in Oakton have a strong sense of community. Glad you aren’t a part of them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very child specific high school. Very big school, overcrowded despite renovation. As long as your student has a specific group they will be ok. Competetive sport teams so "good" may not be good enough. The school values the brightest students so AP has morre seasoned capable staff. Gen ed not so much. Madison is a much better school.

Madison shill. Madison is not “much better” by any metric

DP, but there's a lot to be said for having fewer students and a stronger sense of community. Vienna is a real place; Oakton is basically a zip code.

Does that make Madison "much better"? Maybe not. It probably does make it more attractive to people considering where to live.

Many neighborhoods in Oakton have a strong sense of community. Glad you aren’t a part of them

You sound quite immature. Perhaps you should avoid this forum if you can't handle it without resorting to personal attacks. It does nothing to make Oakton HS seem more attractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP might want to consider Lewis, Herndon, Falls Church and Annandale HS.

How dare you attempt to enroll your child in a low FARMs school? You’d be better served moving to an apartment in any of the above listed communities and send your DC to the neighborhood HS.

We are terrible parents for working hard and buying a home and sending of DC to the best schools we can afford. I do t understand this mentality.

Ignoring your snark, FCPS created the imbalance of FARMS and ESOL in the schools and now can't fix them.

And the schools themselves aren't bad, but the student body is starting from a very different place than the likes of Langley, Madison, or Oakton.

And some of us have been here long enough to see this entire debacle develop around us. And we also work hard.

[Anonymous]

We had about 500 at Herndon High in late 1990s.

[Anonymous]

Good school. My kids love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP might want to consider Lewis, Herndon, Falls Church and Annandale HS.

How dare you attempt to enroll your child in a low FARMs school? You’d be better served moving to an apartment in any of the above listed communities and send your DC to the neighborhood HS.

We are terrible parents for working hard and buying a home and sending of DC to the best schools we can afford. I do t understand this mentality.

Ignoring your snark, FCPS created the imbalance of FARMS and ESOL in the schools and now can't fix them.

And the schools themselves aren't bad, but the student body is starting from a very different place than the likes of Langley, Madison, or Oakton.

And some of us have been here long enough to see this entire debacle develop around us. And we also work hard.

Insofar as Oakton is concerned, the test will be when FCPS finally bites the bullet and decides whether to build a new western HS. How hard will the parents in the western part of the Oakton district fight against a new (but higher % FARMS) high school that is closer to their homes than Oakton?

[Anonymous]

They should build that new high school soon. Oakton has 2700 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP might want to consider Lewis, Herndon, Falls Church and Annandale HS.

How dare you attempt to enroll your child in a low FARMs school? You’d be better served moving to an apartment in any of the above listed communities and send your DC to the neighborhood HS.

We are terrible parents for working hard and buying a home and sending of DC to the best schools we can afford. I do t understand this mentality.

Imagine a world where you don't have to work so hard just to end up sacrificing and overpaying your hard-earned money to greedy sellers for your school. You are implying that you're paying to afford the school you chose. Why are you treating public school like it's private? FCPS owes it to the public to have good schools all across. Gatekeeping shouldn't be the status quo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP might want to consider Lewis, Herndon, Falls Church and Annandale HS.

How dare you attempt to enroll your child in a low FARMs school? You’d be better served moving to an apartment in any of the above listed communities and send your DC to the neighborhood HS.

We are terrible parents for working hard and buying a home and sending of DC to the best schools we can afford. I do t understand this mentality.

Imagine a world where you don't have to work so hard just to end up sacrificing and overpaying your hard-earned money to greedy sellers for your school. You are implying that you're paying to afford the school you chose. Why are you treating public school like it's private? FCPS owes it to the public to have good schools all across. Gatekeeping shouldn't be the status quo.

Buying in a top school district generally benefits your kids’ education (due to stronger peer groups and teachers less likely to burn out) and is a good investment as well. However, we all know FCPS invests more per student in the poorer schools. Not sure what you want, other than perhaps county-wide busing, which isn’t going to happen.

Oakton’s boundaries are elongated, but they include some moderate-income areas in Fairfax and the FARMS rate is over 10%. The boundaries haven’t been gerrymandered like Langley’s boundaries to exclude any lower or moderate-income housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see no one has refuted the “full of rich kids” statement.

Fair number.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP might want to consider Lewis, Herndon, Falls Church and Annandale HS.

How dare you attempt to enroll your child in a low FARMs school? You’d be better served moving to an apartment in any of the above listed communities and send your DC to the neighborhood HS.

We are terrible parents for working hard and buying a home and sending of DC to the best schools we can afford. I do t understand this mentality.

Imagine a world where you don't have to work so hard just to end up sacrificing and overpaying your hard-earned money to greedy sellers for your school. You are implying that you're paying to afford the school you chose. Why are you treating public school like it's private? FCPS owes it to the public to have good schools all across. Gatekeeping shouldn't be the status quo.

Buying in a top school district generally benefits your kids’ education (due to stronger peer groups and teachers less likely to burn out) and is a good investment as well. However, we all know FCPS invests more per student in the poorer schools. Not sure what you want, other than perhaps county-wide busing, which isn’t going to happen.

Oakton’s boundaries are elongated, but they include some moderate-income areas in Fairfax and the FARMS rate is over 10%. The boundaries haven’t been gerrymandered like Langley’s boundaries to exclude any lower or moderate-income housing.

Langley doesn’t have a boundary with a crazy shape and has been largely the same area since the 1990s. Look to government at various levels for why poverty increased in nearby schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see no one has refuted the “full of rich kids” statement.

Fair number.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

DP: It's just a feature for OP to know. They can decide whether they want that or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see no one has refuted the “full of rich kids” statement.

Fair number.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

DP: It's just a feature for OP to know. They can decide whether they want that or not.

There was a spectrum of low-income students last year:

Annandale - 66.6%
Justice - 65.8%
Lewis - 63.1%
Mount Vernon - 60.1%
Falls Church - 58.1%
Herndon - 50.0%
West Potomac - 47.0%
Edison 41.3%
Centreville - 32.7%
Hayfield - 32.7%
South Lakes - 32.2%
Fairfax 31.9%
Westfield - 31.8%
South County - 25.2%
Marshall - 23.1%
Chantilly 20.8%
Lake Braddock - 18.9%
West Springfield - 16.8%
Woodson - 14.9%
Robinson - 14.0%
Oakton - 13.9%
Madison - 11.9%
McLean - 11.7%
TJ - 7.7%
Langley 3.4%